7.21.24 Prayers of Church & Community, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Pasadena, CA

 Prayers of Church & Community, July 21, 2024

Westminster Presbyterian Church

For all things bright and beautiful,

For all things good and great.

Our highest praise, to thee we raise.

The savior of our days.

Dear God, we give your our lives, 

our hearts and our minds, our homes and where we work, our schools and where we learn and play …  

Dear God, we lift up the nations of the world, and pray for their welfare … we pray for nations where freedom is limited, where women suffer indignities of soul and body, where religion is poorly used … 

We pray for America, dear God … may peace, civility, truth and dignity, prevail in our political drama … we pray for Donald Trump and his family, for J.D.Vance and his family … 

We pray for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, and their families …

We pray for America’s electorate … 

Holy God, we pray for those given to violence … 

We pray for those in need … folks looking for employment, seeking a future, to provide for loved ones … folks having a hard time of it … in distress and sorrow. 

O LORD our God, be merciful, we pray, and help us all, as a nation, to marshal the resources of our abundance to help everyone along the way. Save us, we pray, from limited vision and small dreams … save us from avarice and greed, hatred and bigotry … save us unto the good things of life.

Holy God, Eternal Light … bless Westminster in its pursuit of the future … help us all to say farewell to what was, and to greet what shall be with open arms, confident, O God, in your grace, mercy, and peace.

And a simple word of thanks, dear God, for the creatures who reside in our homes - they love us, and we love them … it’s quite extraordinary … for them we give you our thanks … for their wellbeing we pray, all creatures, great and small.

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.