Praying Titus 2:1-12 for Ourselves and One Another - 21 February 2021

 

[Evening Prayer guided by Titus 2:2-12]

Thank you that your grace, which brings salvation to all, teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly lust, and that your grace teaches us to live sober-mindedly, uprightly and godly in this present age. Therefore, we pray for ourselves and others across the chronological, economic, and sexual spans. May the older men (…) be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled. May they live and love and learn and lead in ways that are sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. O Lord, hear our prayer.

 Aid the older women (…) likewise to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. May they teach the younger women what is good, and so coaching them in sobriety of thought, action and reaction. O Lord, hear our prayer.

In their relationships with the older women, we pray for the young women (…) that they would learn to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. O Lord, hear our prayer.

Likewise, O Lord, walking with the older men, cause the younger men (…) to be self-controlled. O Lord, hear our prayer.

All of us who are ministers (…) give us the sense to show ourselves in all respects to be models of good works, and in our teaching to show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us. O Lord, hear our prayer.

Though we may or may not be in situations like the bondservants of old, yet we ask you to assist us in righteous and godly submission to our superiors. And may our integrity be genuine, not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything we may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior. O Lord, hear our prayer.

All of these requests we ask in the name of Jesus Christ, your Son and our saving Lord. Amen