Lord, we praise you

for this opportunity we have had to worship you during this commencement ceremony.

We thank you for your gifts of life, of salvation in Jesus Christ, of your call to serve you, and the gift of the future.

We acknowledge that all we have is from you.

Now we bring these graduates before you, thanking you for them.

We ask that you will give them the spirit of wisdom and revelation so they may know Christ better. We pray that out of your glorious riches, you may strengthen them with power through your Spirit in their inner being. We ask that they might grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ. We pray that you will fill them with the knowledge of God’s will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. May they live lives worthy of the Lord, and may they please you in every way, bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to your glorious might, so that they migh have great endurance and patience, joyfully giving thanks to their Father.

Lord, may they approve the things that are excellent in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ,having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

We plead on their behalf that by your grace you will keep their hearts set firmly on you. We give them over to your leading and guiding for your glory. In the strong name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior we pray.

And now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to his power that works in us. To him be the glory in th church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever.

Amen.

– Dr. Gene Swanstrom, DMin – 

Trinity Evangelical School (Commencement 14 May 2011)