"On this Day of Remembrance" - 19 April 2015 PM
Our God and
Father, who has made us your well-loved sons and daughters, we lift up to you
our petitions and supplications, appreciating the fact that you know what we
have need of before we even ask (Matthew 6.32). O Lord, hear our prayer.
We pray for
those who are burdened and encumbered with hardships, fears, brokenness, worries
and perplexities….Remember them in their need, grant them courage, peace,
strength, and be pleased to raise them up to praise and honor you. O Lord, hear our prayer.
By your
great mercy, please keep safe and sound our people who are in foreign lands…and
sustain their families. O Lord, hear our
prayer.
Guide the nations of the earth, including the
U.S.A., so that all nations may cast off the greed and arrogance that feed
unjust wars, oppression and slavery. Please provide economic stability, family
harmony, and communal healthiness in this State. And prosper our cities and
neighborhoods with hospitality, friendliness, and cooperation that cross
racial, social and economic lines. And on this day of remembrance, we thank you
for those who risked so much; we pray for those who lost so much; and we
implore you to preserve us from those who would seek to destroy so much! O Lord, hear our prayer.
O GOD, who
spares when we deserve punishment, and in your wrath remembers mercy; we humbly
beseech you, of your goodness, to comfort and assist all prisoners [especially…and
those facing death]. Give them a right understanding of themselves, and of
your promises; that, trusting wholly in your mercy, they may not place their
confidence anywhere but in you. Relieve the distressed, protect the innocent,
awaken the guilty; and forasmuch as you alone bring light out of darkness, and
good out of evil, grant to them that by the power of your Holy Spirit they may
be set free from the chains of sin, and may be brought to newness of life
through Jesus Christ our Lord. And to this end, bless and prosper organizations
like Kairos
Prison Ministry (adapted from the Book
of Common Prayer – 1928). O Lord,
hear our prayer.
O Lord, we
pray for your Church in all places, for this congregation; Christ the King Presbyterian Church-Norman; Bible
Missionary Church of Deer Creek; Greater Cleaves Memorial C.M.E. Church; Israel
Chapel; Springdale Alliance Church. Provide all that we need that we
may flourish and accomplish the priestly work you have given us. Strengthen our
homes and families that we may be beacons of hope to our neighbors. Save our
enemies from self-destructive habits and actions, and help us to be as
forgiving toward them as you have been toward us. O Lord, hear our prayer.
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