Prayer for the Day
A prayer that we might find joy
God, as we turn to the news anticipating more headlines about pain and suffering, guard us against complacency and compassion fatigue, and strengthen our faith in your sovereignty over the world. Fill us with hope and resolve to make the world what you would have it be. Open our eyes to the little things, yet challenge us to look beyond our horizons to your bigger purposes. In the midst of those things that make us sad, help us to find and cherish moments of sustaining joy as we build God’s kingdom.
Alternative Prayer for the Day
A prayer of joy and thanksgiving
All creation blesses you, O Lord. Exiles offer you worship. Pilgrims hallow your name. Humanity offers its praise. And we your servants lift our voices in joy and thanksgiving. Amen.
A Prayer for the Middle East
God of love,
As we see and hear the news of the devastating violence wrought upon
and within the Middle East,
we hold your broken world before you in prayer,
We pray for lives lost, for people who mourn, and for those living in fear
We pray for people stranded and in need of safe routes and safe harbours.
We long for peace and pray that those who wage war might exchange weapons for words.
Help us to know how to pray, how to speak and how to act,
that we might remember our call to follow the Prince of Peace,
In whose name we pray,
Amen.
A Prayer for the Middle East
Thursday 09 March 2017
“I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty words or wisdom … I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.” (vv. 1b, 3)
1 Corinthians 2:1-5