Posts Tagged ‘Prayer’
November 6, 2022
“. . . We do not make requests of you because we are righteous, but because of your great mercy. O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hear and act.” Daniel 9:18-19
O Lord help us to be better than we are.
Quick to forgive and slow to anger (James 1:19-21), seeking the still and quiet space where we might hear your voice.
Give us the will and wisdom to seek out truth, to turn away from those who cause deceit to prosper (Daniel 8:25),
from those who use your name and dishonor you with their actions (Matthew 15:8).
Restore in us a vision of one country, working together, towards liberty and justice for all.
Raise among us those who will lead with love and compassion and calming words,
so that we may be at peace and together find our way.
Guide us O Lord.
Amen
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Tags:compassion, country, deceit, election, elections, finding our way, love, peace, politics, Prayer, USA
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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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December 9, 2021
Help us find peace O Lord.
Peace within us.
Peace among us.
Peace through us.
Guide us with your vision.
“The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the yearling together, and a little child will lead them . . .
They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain,
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.” (Is. 11:6-9).
Amen.
Tags:Advent, peace, Prayer, vision
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July 11, 2021
Today’s prayer borrows from Psalm 83
See how the enemies of democracy are astir.
With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against the freedoms you cherish.
“Come” they say. “Let us destroy this diverse nation, let democracy be no more.”
With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against us.
All those who lie, those who deny justice, those who seek power at our expense,
Make them like tumbleweed, O Lord, like chaff before the wind.
As fire consumes the forest, or a flame sets mountains ablaze, so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.
May their efforts perish in disgrace.
Cover their faces in shame, and let those who seek your love, your compassion, your mercy prevail.
Amen
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July 4, 2021
On this 4th of July Lord help us pause and see how much we have to lose if we lose our democracy.
Move us away from the resentments, and divisions that enable the slow creep of autocracy.
May we recognize how much we use our shared freedoms of thought, expression, and association, and the vibrancy those lend to our communities.
Help us protect these for both ourselves and others, slowing the corrosive attacks on views that differ from our own, and challenging appeals to hate and fear.
For the growth of tyranny in its many forms will eventually threaten even those of us who enjoy quiet neighborhoods, regular schedules, good food, and adequate pay.
Without change, even we will some day awake and look at the wreckage and wonder, how did we go astray?
O Lord, do not abandon us to our sinful ways.
Awaken us, guide us, and help us to be better than we are.
Amen.
Tags:autocracy, country, division, fear, freedom, hate, peace, politics, Prayer, resentment, sin, tyranny, United States, USA
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June 13, 2021
Today’s prayer is from Psalm 72, v. 12-14
For he will deliver the needy who cry out,
the afflicted who have no-one to help.
He will take pity on the weak and the needy
and save the needy from death.
He will rescue them from oppression and violence,
for precious is their blood in his sight.
Amen
Tags:country, hope, justice, oppression, politics, Prayer, rescue, United States, USA, violence
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June 6, 2021
The prayer today incorporates a paragraph from Across That Bridge by Congressman John Lewis.
“[N]o matter how tarnished or weak the flame, when the forces of darkness seem like they are about to consume us, we will ourselves to survive, and we begin to stand in the center of our inner light and invite its power to clear away the darkness that has clouded the soul.”
Help your light shine in us and through us Lord, that we might find a better way to live and work together.
Amen
Tags:change, hope, light, politics, Prayer, United States, USA
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Prayers For Our Country 