Thank you Father, for allowing us to be here now. You ignited the spark that animates us and continues to breathe life and faithfully pumps our life-blood. Like living stones, we are being built into a spiritual house to be a royal priesthood. Each of us here now plays a significant role. Like organs of a body, together we make up one family called humanity. Thank you for reminding us to regard our lives here, our impact, our influence, as something that is positive and precious and important and loved. That our greatest advancements are when we build on the work of one another. You want us to remember right now that when we build with compassion, we become the desired stone of the builder, for compassion is the rightly chosen and precious cornerstone that will never be put to shame.

“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His Marvelous Light.” (1Peter 2:9)

Thank you for calling us to place our hands together as we proclaim Your Mighty Acts, for the stones that the builders rejected have been put through the door, and the door has now been closed, never for them to return. Thank you for blessing us with Your Mercy. We stand to rise as one people, one body, one blessed human family called humanity. Thank you for allowing us to witness this blessed transformation. We are the new doorways of Marvelous Light, and we open up to let it through into our world.