Ever compassionate God, whose blessed son set a model for a prophetic and self-emptying ministry, grant your wisdom to be conscious that we are ordained in to your ministry by your grace in order to reveal you through our teaching, preaching and witnessing. Enable us to be in communion with you so that we could shed the fragrance of your gospel that redeems us from every bondage and makes us free to embrace you, through Jesus Christ our mediator, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.