"Almighty God, You have Taught Us" - 16 October 2016
Almighty God, you have taught us through your Son that love is the
fulfilling of the law: grant that we, who have been gathered here by Christ’s
beckoning and receiving Christ together in faith and with thanksgiving, may
love you with our whole heart and our neighbors as ourselves.
We pray for your Church all over the world, and congregations here in
the OKC area: especially for Church of
the First Born; Church of the Harvest; Church of the Living God; Church of the
Open Arms; Church of the Savior; and Church of the Servant. For those
churches who claim to be yours and have lost their way and begun traveling down
side trails and pathways that dishonor you, reject the Scriptures as the final
rule of faith and life, and embrace error; we implore you to restore them,
grant them to see their fault, renounce it, and return in joy to you and your
way. For those congregations leaning into being faithful to you, fill them with
compassionate courage and sturdy resilience. Uphold our brotherhood in the
world by fortifying those who face persecution, enlivening those who are broken
down with grave worries, equipping those who are lacking, protecting those who
are in real danger.
Good Shepherd who seeks that which is lost, who even sought out and
restored an extorting tax collector like Zacchaeus; we pray for these…..may
they come to know that you have come to seek and to save the lost; and as with
Zacchaeus, may salvation come to their house.
O great physician, as you healed the sick, gave strength to the lame, opened
the eyes of the blind and ears of the deaf, and set the oppressed free, we pray
for you to mend, restore, fortify and make whole these who are afflicted and
hurting….
For these United States of America, our leaders and all who reside
here; along with every nation on this round world; Bring us all to sensible
level-headedness, that peace, prosperity, healthiness and wholeness would win
the upper hand; and human trafficking, sex trafficking, drug trafficking, wickedness,
savagery, child abuse, cruelty toward the weaker, and the raw barbarity of war
might cease. And we pray for our own national future that your hand would guide
us to better days so that we may leave our children and grandchildren a land of
peace and a place to thrive in wholesomeness.
Mighty God, who has your way in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are
the dust of your feet; who rebukes the sea and makes it dry; who dries up all
the rivers (Nahum 1.3-4); we implore you to relieve us from the earthquakes,
destructive floods, devastating hurricanes, and damaging tornados. And please give
hardiness to those working hard to help in the recovery of disaster-ridden-flood-drenched
places in our country: Louisiana, our East Coast, and Florida. May our MNA
Disaster Response folks have plenty of funds, resources and coworkers to be
successful in their ventures.
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