"Merciful and Gracious" - 29 April 2018
O LORD, you who are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, (Exodus 34.6-7): we lay before you our prayers for your world and your church. And so we pray in the name of Christ; O God, hear my prayer; give ear to the words of my mouth (Psalm 54.2). For Obet in Indonesia; Fika in Indonesia; Emmanuel in Ghana; Christell in Peru; Arlyn in El Slavador; and Yeidi in Columbia whom we are supporting and caring for through Compassion International, and for their families: May our connections with them truly help them. Bring them to flourish in health and education. Provide them with clean drinking water. Supply their families with beneficial employ that they may care well for their families. And may they all know you and your Son Jesus Christ. And so we pray; O God, hear my prayer; give ear to the words of my...