Prayer for Our Day
A prayer
for those involved in warfare
We pray for all those
who are in harm's way in the Middle East and Africa. Uphold them
with your love and give them the strength to go through the
chaos of fighting they must endure. Heal the hurt, console the
bereaved and afflicted, protect the innocent and helpless and
deliver any who are in peril. Hear us, O God: Your mercy is
great.
A Prayer for
our Country
Almighty God, we are most blessed in that we live in a country
where we can worship you as we know how. May we always remember
your generosity and be your faithful servants. Bless our land
with honest industry, truthful education, and an honorable way
of life. Make us who have come from many nations with many
different languages a united people. Guide our leaders that they
may show compassion and wisdom in their decisions that affect
not only us but others throughout the world. We ask this as your
faithful servants and through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Amen.
A Prayer for
Pentecost
O Spirit of God, you are a like a fire, cleansing and consuming;
you are a still small voice, you are in and about us; you have
formed us into your people and built the church on earth.
Come to us as you did at that first Pentecost and move us to
preach your gospel of love. Where our vision is narrow, enlarge
it, where we are wrong, set us aright, when we are weary,
restore our strength.
Be with us always. Amen.
A Prayer
attributed to St. Francis
Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Where there is hatred,
let us sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is
discord, union; where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
Grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For
it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are
pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Pray for:
peace and justice,
our elected officials,
those who have lost their jobs,
our schools and our children,
our Church and all who labor in the Gospel,
those who are weak and suffering,
those who have been diagnosed with a disease,
those who are recovering from sickness,
those who have lost a loved one,
and for those who live alone.
Luther's
Morning Prayer:
Gracious Jesus, our Lord and our God, at this hour you bore our
sins in your own body on the tree so that we, being dead to sin,
might live unto righteousness. Have mercy upon us now and at the
hour of our death, and grant to us, your servants, with all
others who devoutly remember your blessed Passion, a holy and
peaceful life in this world and, through your grace, eternal
glory in the life to come; where, with the Father and the Holy
Spirit, you live and reign, God forever. Amen