Remember Us in Our Longings

First Lutheran Church – ELCA 1200 4 th Avenue - Worthington, MN 56187 Web Site: felcwgtn.org & Email: felcwgtn@frontiernet.net Ministers: All baptized members; Jeanette McCormick, Pastor June 8, 2022; 6:00 pm Worship CALL TO WORSHIP L: In the midst of strife, God is with us! P: Come, O Lord, and pour your word into our hearts. L: In the anguish and grief of everyday living, God is with us! P: Hear our cries, O Lord, and quiet our spirits! L: Come, let us open our hearts and spirits to the Lord. P: We come, with confidence and hope in the presence of God. AMEN. 1 PRAYER OF THE DAY Hear my voice when I call out to you, O God, and remember me in my longings. In the name of +Jesus, Amen. SONGS – ELW 574, “Here I Am Lord” & ELW 793, “Be Thou My Vision” LESSON: Genesis 30:1-24 1When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister; and she said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I shall die!" 2Jacob became very angry with Rachel and said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?" 3Then she said, "Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, that she may bear upon my knees and that I too may have children through her." 4So she gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife; and Jacob went in to her. 5And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son. 6Then Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son"; therefore she named him Dan. 7Rachel's maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. 8Then Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed"; so she named him Naphtali. 9When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. 10Then Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son. 11And Leah said, "Good fortune!" so she named him Gad. 12Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. 13And Leah said, "Happy am I! For the women will call me happy"; so she named him Asher. 14 In the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's 1 Nancy C. Townley. “Worship Connection: Pentecost 5 Yr A.” https://www.ministrymatters.com/all/entry/1139/worship-connection-pentecost-5-yr-a. mandrakes." 15But she said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also?" Rachel said, "Then he may lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes." 16When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he lay with her that night. 17And God heeded Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18Leah said, "God has given me my hire because I gave my maid to my husband"; so she named him Issachar. 19And Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob a sixth son. 20Then Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons"; so she named him Zebulun. 21Afterwards she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah. 22Then God remembered Rachel, and God heeded her and opened her womb. 23She conceived and bore a son, and said, "God has taken away my reproach"; 24and she named him Joseph, saying, "May the LORD add to me another son!" MESSAGE – Mark Richards SONG – ELW 708, “Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love” PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE LORD’S PRAYER Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen. BLESSING SONG – ELW 623, “Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me” SENDING The liturgy and music is reprinted by permission from One License – #736873-A/CCLI – #1941935/Sundays and Seasons - SAS003615