Prayers of Church & Community, September 29, 2024
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Creator of the heavens and earth … everything bright and beautiful … mysteries and wonder untold … things far and beyond our understanding … vast and fierce is the universe … billions and billions of stars and galaxies … our home, our place, a place we call earth.
O God our Father, dear God our Mother … give us eyes to see the glory of this earth - to feel its vibrancy, its generosity, its goodness and mercy … give us ears to hear the roar of the ocean deeps and the murmuring of the early morning … give us a heart for your creation, that we might have a heart for one another.
We pray, O God, for those in need …
Who’ve lost homes and loved ones in the winds of a hurricane … in the flames of a fire … those who suffer in lands torn by war and bitterness, beset with terrifying memories forever embedded in the soul.
We pray for the children … shield their souls from the worst of it, so they can grow up with courage and confidence … to make a difference in this world.
We pray for Christians around the world … divided by frivolous ideas and poorly framed doctrines … help us as Christians to center ourselves more fully in Christ … equip us with the knowledge needed to challenge the lies and distortions … give us the courage, we pray, to stand fast for the gospel, to defend the high ideals of the kingdom, to promote generosity and kindness, mercy and compassion … to help the victims of distorted religion, religions of greed, power, and domination.
We pray for our communities and our leaders … we pray for the film industry, those who make us laugh and help us cry … we pray for the preservation of our Democracy … help us, as a nation, to refuse the simple answers, the easy way out … help us, we pray, to be brave and bold, committed to the highest ideals of human aspiration … to be good and kind to one another, we pray … fill our souls with the Spirit of Christ, our minds with his kingdom, that each and of all of us might reflect to the world his eternal love and his everlasting peace.
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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