DEDICATION PRAYER
1. Statement of the Occasion
Dear people of God, community and friends, we are gathered here, in the sanctuary of the Kanesatake United Church to receive and dedicate the full Mohawk Translation of the Holy Bible to God, as the word of God, and to dedicate it to the service of God and to the service of the people of
God, Amen.
2. Bible Reading
May the Lord bless the full Mohawk translation of the Holy Bible, as the Word of God, speaking in Mohawk to us, as we pray together with the Psalm 114, as it reads about a miracle, saying that :
Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Israel, who turned the rock into a pool of water, and the flint into a spring of waters.
3. Dedication Prayer
Leader: Lift up our hearts in dedication.
People: Come and let us kneel before the Lord our God, as we are the people of the Lord’s pasture and the flock under his care. (Psalm 95)
Leader: The skies and the highest heavens cannot contain the Creator God, neither can the church buildings that are made by human hands, still the Word of God has been revealed to us in the Holy Scriptures in order to listen and to obey. (Chronicles 6.)
People: Today, we dedicate the Mohawk Translation of the Holy Scriptures to the Lord. May God give strength and blessings to the people in the congregation and to the wider church, as the sanctuary and the community has been built around the Word of God. (Psalm 29)
Leader: We dedicate the Mohawk Translation of the Holy Scriptures to the service of God. May we also devote ourselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. (Acts 2)
People: Accept, oh LORD, the willing praise of our mouth, and teach us your laws. Your statutes are our heritage forever; they are the joy of our hearts. They are set on keeping your decrees to the very end for the always greater glory of God. (Psalm 119)
Leader: Let our hearts therefore be wholly devoted to the Lord, our God, may we be always ready and content to walk in the Lord’s statutes and to keep God’s commandments, as they are written in the Holy Scriptures.
People: Let us sing before the Lord with thanksgiving and extol God with music and songs of joy. May the Lord’s name be praised by the Holy Spirit, now and always. (Psalm 95)
ALL: May the Grace and the Love of Jesus Christ build us up as a spiritual house to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. AMEN (1 Peter 2:5)
