Prayers of Church & Community, September 15, 2024
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Holy God, Eternal Light …
Forgive our erroring ways … guide us, we pray, to the better days … of faith, hope, and love … grace, mercy, and peace.
Remind us, dear God, of that which counts … give us the eyes of Christ to see clearly what is true and good, right and decent, and the courage to reject what is false, hurtful, and wrong.
We pray, O God, for the People of Haiti, their daily struggles and deep sorrows … we pray for the Haitians in our nation, and the lies now being told about them … we pray for their children who bear the brunt of such things … we pray for the schools now closed because of vile threats by misguided people … people seduced by hatred and bigotry, O God … people so small in spirit, they cannot rise above themselves … crippled by fear, they cannot love … broken in soul, they cannot forgive, nor seek forgiveness … uncertain of themselves, they can only damn others … may the grace of your love, dear God, may the stars above and the sunshine of the day, help them find their way, their way to a better life, something bright and good, to build up and create anew, to affirm and to celebrate, to stand tall and not fall, to be good and not rude, to see beyond the lies to the truth that sets us all free.
We pray for churches across the land … we pray for Westminster … we pray your blessing upon our quest for the next minister … we thank you for what has been, we thank you for what is, and we thank you for what shall be … because your hand is upon us, your grace is within us, your love all around us.
We pray for our loved ones … we pray for their physical needs and their spiritual wellbeing … we pray for the lost and the lonely, the fearful and the forgotten … we pray for those in deep sorrow, and those facing the end of their days …
May the bright light of Christ shine upon them all … may the grace of your kindly hand guide them along the highways and byways of life and death, the beginnings and endings of all things.
Holy God, Eternal Light, we begin our days in your love, and we end our journey in your love … your love brings us forth, your love walks beside us, and in the end, O God, your love takes us by the hand into the eternal realms of glory.
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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