Prayer For the Home

There is a blog I read called "Life in Grace." It is written by a beautiful lady named Edie who also happens to be a fellow East Tennessean! Recently she posted an amazing prayer for the home. You can link to her blog here: http://www.lifeingraceblog.com/. With her permission I am re posting it to "The Avery House" blog. We are blessed with our new home and want it to be a place where all feel loved and blessed when they enter it. With this prayer we ask our Heavenly Father's blessing upon our home.

Prayer For the Home:
Lord God, our home is among the most precious gifts we receive in this life.
We realize this all the more as we remember our Lord Jesus. He set aside home and family. Having no place to lay His head throughout His ministry, he chose to sojourn among those He came to save. We prayerfully invite Him to dwell in our earthly abode even as He continually invites us by Word and Sacrament to dwell forever in our heavenly home, which He prepares for us.
Make us ever grateful for this shelter from life’s storms.
Keep this house always the home of comfort, joy, peace, and forgiveness.
According to Your will, protect this home from the spiritual assaults of Satan, but likewise make our home a fortress against the calamities of nature and the wickedness of sinful man.
Grant us the virtue of hospitality, the joy of harmonious living, and the blessing of gathering around Your Word and bringing our families’ prayers before You.
May all who dwell in our home be blessed by Your presence and Your peace,
and may all who go forth give thanks for the grace they receive from You, through us, Your dear children
We receive Your loving kindness in our home as a reminder of the eternal home we inherit through Your Son, Jesus Christ, in whose name we pray.Amen.{prayer taken from the Lutheran prayer book which can be purchased at Concordia Publishing House.}