Posts Tagged ‘joy’
April 18, 2022
He has risen
giving us hope
that we too can love sacrificially,
strengthen our communities,
pursue justice, and
survive oppression,
together.
Hope
that we can change the world for our children – all children.
Hope
that they might thrive, finding
food, water, shelter, and opportunities to use the talents God gave them,
together.
Hope
that we might move towards love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control,
and away from the politics of power and control.
He has risen.
Alleluia!
Amen
Tags:children, Easter, faithfulness, gentleness, goodness, hope, joy, kindness, love, opportunity, patience, peace, politics, Prayer, self-control, thrive
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December 17, 2021
We await O Lord, your justice.
The promise that our mourning will end,
Our fighting will cease,
And both the oppressed and oppressor will be freed to a new way,
A way of compassion, of truth, of caring and love.
And we rejoice in the knowledge that the time for justice will come. Is. 25:9.
Amen
Tags:Advent, compassion, joy, justice, love, Prayer, promise, rejoice
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May 2, 2021
Bless our children Lord.
When we were expecting, the doctor told us, “a child is God’s way of saying the world must go on.”
Help us change Lord, for their sake.
Protect them from a legacy of fear, hate, and resentment.
Instead let them know joy, peace, and opportunity.
Help them love and be loved by their fellow citizens.
Give us all hope.
Help us change Lord, that our children might more fully live.
Amen
Tags:change, children, country, future, joy, love, opportunity, peace, politics, Prayer, United States, USA
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April 18, 2021
Galatians 5:22-26
Help us Lord bear the fruit of your Spirit,
love and joy,
free us from our hate and fear;
peace,
heal our anger and resentment;
patience, kindness, and goodness,
may we see and nurture the goodness embedded in all your children;
faithfulness,
let your command to love our neighbor as ourselves guide our way;
gentleness,
may we forgive ourselves and others as we move forward;
self-control,
may we think harder, choose our words more carefully, listen well, and act wisely.
Help us bear fruit O Lord.
Amen
Tags:country, faithfulness, fruit of the Spirit, gentleness, goodness, joy, kindness, love, patience, peace, politics, Prayer, self-control, United States, USA
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December 20, 2020
The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood. John 1:5
Do not be afraid, do not be discouraged. 2 Chronicles 20:16
Lord God of light, in your word we find hope,
In your presence we find joy,
In your guidance we find peace,
In your love we find rest.
Even in the darkest times, your light is there, if we are willing to look.
Help us to see it, embrace it, and share it. (John 1:9)
Amen
Tags:country, fear, God's love, hope, joy, light, love, peace, politics, Prayer, USA
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December 13, 2020
We are wandering in the wilderness Lord, and even though it is of our own making, we are lost and confused and afraid.
Help us to hear and to follow the voices of your prophets calling out, inviting us into a better way. (Is. 40:3).
Lead us through the change, the adversity, our fears and anxieties.
Let us, like Abraham, follow your love, even though we do not fully know where we are going. (Heb. 11:8)
Sustain our hope in what we cannot yet see (Heb. 11:1), and guide us towards your peace.
Amen
Tags:confusion, country, hope, joy, loss, peace, politics, Prayer, prophets, United States, USA, wilderness
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September 13, 2020
Today’s prayer is adapted from Romans 12:9-21 and 14:17-19.
Teach us to love O Lord –
- to share, not hoard or waste, our resources and assets;
- to welcome the stranger;
- to hate what is evil yet cling to what is good;
- to be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer;
- to forgive even those who harm us and ever focus forward on what we might be if we loved others as you do.
Help us to find the ways that lead to peace and mutual learning.
Guide us with your Holy Spirit as we seek the justice, peace, and joy that love can bring.
Support us Lord, as we confront evil, so that we might not be overcome, but might overcome evil with good.
Amen
Tags:country, evil, good, joy, justice, love, overcoming, peace, politics, Prayer, United States, USA
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Prayers For Our Country 