Sunday, November 2, 2008

Prayer - November 2, 2008

O LORD our God, we pray for our nation today …
We pray for Barak Obama and John McCain …
We pray for Sarah Palin and Joe Biden …
We pray for all the candidates throughout our land …

We pray for our soldiers …
And their leaders …
We pray for those who’ve returned home wounded …
We pray for their care-givers …

We pray for the families who’ve lost loved ones in the wars …
We pray for their spouses … for their children …

We pray for the peace-makers, O LORD …
Women and men of vision,
To help us through turbulent times …
Who dare to dream …
Who see a better world … a time of peace …
When war shall be no more.

Help us, we pray, to be your people … to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world …
To embody the love of Jesus …
To know that his way is the way, the truth and the life …
That love is always possible, though never easy …

Help us, we pray, to set our hearts upon Jesus …
To let him be our LORD and our Savior …
To find light in his light …
To know that it’s possible to really follow him …
To pay the price that he asks of us …
To have less of ourselves and more of everyone else …
To grow a little smaller so he can grow a whole lot larger …
To learn the art of self-denial to make room for others …
To pick up our cross and bear it boldly …

LORD, we pray not for our comfort, but our character …
We pray not for our ease, but that we might devote ourselves all the more to the high purpose of Jesus …

We pray for our families and friends, not merely to have the blessings and delights of the day, but that all of us might possess the riches of your kingdom forever … to know the difference between gold and straw …

To build our life upon the rock … and not upon the shifting sand.

To let Jesus be the Ark who leads us across the river …

To do the great and simple things of life …

To laugh a lot …
To grow a garden or bake a pie …
To share as much as we can …
To make time for others …
To join our efforts with women and men of good will all around the world … that justice and peace might thrive …
It can be done, O LORD …
Because you’ve said so …

In the name our LORD Jesus Christ, who taught us to pray, saying, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name …

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