Prayers of Church & Community, March 2, 2025
Westminster Presbyterian Church
LORD Jesus Christ, son of the Living God, forever and always the apostle and high priest of our confession … you come to us in the night of our despair, in the wilderness of our sin and sorrow, to deliver us unto to the Creator of the heavens and the earth, to return us to the life for which we are created, and the faith that makes all things new … you are here, O LORD, to redeem us, and save us … that we might be the light of the world and the salt of the earth.
LORD Jesus Christ, son of the Living God, stand by us in these days of uncertainty, lest we stumble in our arrogance and fall into fear … lest we lose our bearings and lose our way …
By your Holy Spirit, weave into our souls your great love for all your sisters and brothers, that we, too, might look upon the world as your family, our family … where there are boundaries, we would cross them … where some are excluded, we would welcome them … where there is fear and anger, we would be faithful and kind … where there is selfishness, we would be generous, where there is greed, we would be wise in the things of your heavenly Father … to care for your creation … this precious planet, this little blue marble in the vast expanse of space, and all its creatures, great and small.
We pray, O LORD, for our loved ones … guide and guard them with legions of angels … come to their aid we pray …
We pray for those who have lost so very much in the fires … hold them, we pray, in your kindly hands …
When they are weary, O LORD, give them your rest … when they are confused, give them your counsel … when they are discouraged, be at their side … when they can’t take one more step, surround them with mercy … and see them through the days of grief.
We pray for our leaders, O LORD, and the women and men of the United Nations … we pray for those who protect our democratic freedoms … we pray for those who sit upon the Benches of Law … we pray for the captains of industry and for those who gather in board rooms around the world. Save them, one and all, we mostly earnestly pray, from malice and greed, from thinking too small, that they might fulfill the great commandments of life and love.
We pray for Westminster … grant us, we pray, a blessed future, full of joy and courage. May our Tower be the light of welcome and a beacon of hope.
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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