Prayers of Church & Community, June 16, 2024
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Holy God, Eternal Light,
Thank you for the good we’ve done this week … we’ve made some mistakes along the way, and we’ve done some harm … but help us, dear God, to focus on the good, to keep on working at it … to grow in Christ, we pray, all the more.
We pray for our new members, dear God, their families and friends, their homes and their work, their dreams and ambitions … together, O God, great things happen … arm-in-arm, side-by-side, we seek your kingdom … your peace and your love.
We pray for our communities … those who lead and bear the burdens of the day … we pray for Los Angeles and its mayor, Karen Bass … we pray for the homeless, dear God, for whatever reasons, they’re on the bottom of the heap, and life is hard … we pray for those in government and NGO’s and private philanthropies working to resolve the problems and build a society wherein folks are safe, dear God, especially the children, we pray … to believe in America, that we’re a good country, and we care deeply … to believe in themselves, we pray, to have confidence to try, and the opportunity to work.
Bless us, we pray, in the remains of the day … Father’s Day … we give thanks for those who have loved us into life, for those who have shared their wisdom and guidance, who have walked with us, and ran beside us, when we learned how to ride a bike.
In the name of our LORD Jesus Christ who taught us to pray, saying:
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.
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