"Lord God...We Long to See ..." - 24 August 2025


Lord God, our Father, we long to see your power, justice and majesty flow into every nook and cranny of creation. Therefore, we pray for your Church and your World. For this congregation we pray: Hold us by your hand so that our feet may never slip. Turn our worries, fears, fretting and woes all into faith in you. Be pleased to continue to add to this your flock such as are being saved; and cause our retired guys coffee, Fall Catechism Classes, men’s and women’s Bible Studies, GriefShare, and Sunday School classes, to aid us in glorifying and enjoying you better, together.

Be with your Church all over the earth, including Calvary Missionary Baptist, Christ MB, Christian Life, and Concord Missionary Baptist churches; as well as K.L. Baum, his family, and our Bangladeshi brothers and sisters. Strengthen what is pleasing to you, remove what is foul and festering, heal what is hurting, and provide all that is lacking.

We ask your healthful care and sustaining mercy for all who feel the walls closing in on them, who find health, life, joy and wholesomeness slipping away from them, who are under any kind of tribulation and distress (…). Make haste, O God, to deliver them.

Mighty God, who loves creation, and will one day completely restore and transform the groaning creation: bring all wildfires and floods under control, make the earth and seas bountiful and full of life, mend what is vandalized and brutalized, and show us our role in honoring you by honoring our earth.

Please show great kindness on all our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines, those at home and those deployed, that they will triumph over evil, and in that triumph be drawn close to you through Jesus Christ and be healthy and whole in mind and body. We especially pray for our disabled military veterans, and those who are haunted by the ghosts of the past, by the tragedies they’ve seen and experienced, by the guilt some feel for having survived when their buddies didn’t, and those physically, morally and mentally scarred. Bring them hope and health. May they find their all-in-all in you.

We pray that you would bring lasting and substantial peace to all nations around this globe. Bestow on all lands godly and goodly government that there would be true and genuine liberty and justice for all – free born, foreign born and unborn.

Finally, Lord, we long to see you act and work and move in the lives of people who have never confessed Christ Jesus as the Lord; in the lives of those who have strayed away from the faith; and in the lives of those who claim to be hardcore atheists and scoffers (…). Give them new hearts to believe in Christ, new eyes to see your providential care of and order in creation, and new desires for obeying You. And now, in the name of Jesus and the power of your Spirit, we pray as we’ve been taught, Our Father…

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