Description
Three readings (prayers) which focus on thanksgiving, the topics being: family and friends, health and freedom. Each uses 3 readers.
Cast: 3
Bible Reference: Psalm 95
Set: bare
Lighting: standard
Sound: wireless mics if available
Song: none
SFX: none
Costumes: standard
Props: none
Special Instructions: none
Time: 15
Sample of script:
Prayer # 1 Family and Friends
This reading drama involves two readers, male or female.
Reader 1: Let us pray together as we give thanks to our Heavenly Father. Today we are going to unite our hearts in prayer through a Christian reading. If you prefer, you may bow your head as you meditate on these thoughts.
Our Lord,
We come to You today full of love and thanksgiving in our hearts. We come to you today with complete respect and reverence for You, our almighty Creator. Allow us to set aside the cares and concerns of our minds, and permit our hearts to be opened and filled with the power and love that can only be provided by Your Holy Spirit. For this we give thanks.
Reader 2: Today, Father, we want to thank you for the many people that enter in our lives. People of all different backgrounds and experiences. For these are the people You have purposely placed in our path to forever change and shape us. For this we give thanks.
Thank you, Father, for our families. While you were still forming us in our mothers’ wombs, you were also forming the families and lives that would play an integral role in our physical and emotional development. You saw the needs that we as children would require and you sought out to fill those needs. For this we give thanks.
Reader 1: We come to you with eternal thanks for forming those who would be central to our spiritual development. We know that when physical needs are addressed, only a small portion of the body’s needs are complete. We understand that through your love and perfect timing, you place believers in our lives who will be fundamental in implementing the eternal relationship we now have with You. For this we give thanks.Thank you, dear Jesus, for those who do not have families, for these people are part of our family. Because you saw worth in us when no one else did, you made us part of the grand family of God. With or without immediate members in our family, we are all one in the body of believers. Friends and family, praising as one. For this we give thanks.
Reader 2: Family. Whether we are tied by ancestors or by grace – for this we give thanks.
Amen.
Prayer # 2 Health
This reading drama involves three readers, male or female.
Reader 1: Let us pray together as we give thanks to our Heavenly Father. Today we are going to unite our hearts in prayer through a Christian reading. If you prefer, you may bow your head as you meditate on these thoughts.
Our Lord,
We come to You today full of love and thanksgiving in our hearts. We come to you today with complete respect and reverence for You, our almighty Creator. Allow us to set aside the cares and concerns of our minds, and permit our hearts to be opened and filled with the power and love that can only be provided by Your Holy Spirit. For this we give thanks.
