"O Lord, You Know..." - 4 October 2020

 


O Lord, you know what we have need of even before we ask; therefore, we pray with greater confidence that you hear our words and that which we cannot even express in words.

We pray for the troubled and tormented peoples in our world, suffering from floods, droughts, hurricanes, unemployment, military threats and fears, and we pray for the leaders of the nations. Please establish peace, judicial integrity, economic stability, and healthy recovery in all lands, for the good of all, so that the Gospel of Jesus may spread unchecked, and that your Church may dwell in peace and quietness. Guide our own National and State leaders toward legitimate fairness, moral integrity, and contentment with what is good in your sight.

Give ear to our concerns as we pray for those who are still in their unbelief and for those who have deserted the Christian Faith (…). May they turn around and believe in your Son Jesus Christ and have everlasting life.

For your Church in all places, this congregation, and La Roca Community Church, Life Church, Living Waters Lighthouse Church, and Maranatha Church, we pray. Strengthen our resolve to glorify you and enjoy you in knowledge, righteousness and true holiness. Please hold us back from following harmful paths and prosper us in walking in the light as you are in the light. Help us to love our enemies, forgiving those who have wronged us, as you loved us and reconciled us to yourself when we were your enemies.

Almighty God, whose joy is our strength (Nehemiah 8:10), whose kingdom is a matter of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit (Romans 14:17), and whose love is poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit who has been given to us (Romans 5:6); we pray for ourselves, our immediate and extended families, and for one another. O Lord, may your Spirit wash over us with joy, so that righteousness would flourish in our homes and callings and peace thrive always and in all ways. May your Spirit make your love for us, to us, and in us more real than ever before.

Finally, LORD God, the Almighty, who gives power to the faint, and to the one who has no might you increase strength. Even though youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; yet those who wait for you, O LORD, shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. O God, for the sick or sore we pray (…), including our President and his wife; for the weak or weary we pray (…); for the beaten or bruised we pray (…); and for the limp or lifeless we pray (…). We implore you to lift them up on eagle’s wings; renew their strength; rouse them with renewed hope and life so they can run and not be weary, walk and not be faint (Isaiah 40:29-31). Amen.


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