"Our Father, Who Turns Our Darkness into the Brilliance of Day..." - 8 March 2026


 Our Father, who turns our darkness into the brilliance of day, and gives us garments of joy in place of the apparel of sorrow; we find ourselves in times of worry and deep concern for ourselves, our children, our grandchildren, our nation and our world. In times of prosperity fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day of trouble suffer not our trust in you to fail. We remember those who are grappling with specific hardships (…). May it please you to console and relieve them, according to their specific needs. Give them enduring patience under their sufferings and a happy conclusion to all their afflictions. 

With your watchful eye preserve those in our Military, especially (…), and encourage their families.

We pray for those making career decisions: please guide them to places and circumstances that will be best for them and their families, personally, professionally, and with regard to piety. And we pray for those who wished they could have career decisions to make. Please open doors and aid them.

Please safeguard our country and direct the hearts and minds of all our leaders in your ways of justice and truth for both the born and unborn. Guide them in their plans and outlooks regarding this hot conflict in Iran. We do pray for peace – but Lord, may it be righteous peace.

We pray for this region that you would bestow on us the needful portions of rain so as to ease the pressure put on our water supply, and to nourish the earth.

Hear our concerns for the nations of this world, especially Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, North and South Korea, and the Persian Gulf and Middle East. Strengthen what is good, just and right, bring down and cast out all that is murderous, evil and diabolical.

O Lord, we pray for your Church in all places, for this congregation, Church of God in Christ New Jerusalem Temple, Church of the Living God on Main, Jones Chapel, and Western Hills Fellowship Church. Strengthen our loyalty to you and build up our work done in the name of Christ.

We plead for the salvation, transformation and rescue of those who have never believed in your Son and turned from their sins (…). And we pray for the restoration of those who have strayed away from you (...). And further, we pray that by your mercies you would turn the hearts of our enemies, persecutors and slanderers (…). May we not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good. All we ask in union with Jesus Christ your Son, and our Lord and Savior. And now we join together in the power of the Spirit to pray as he taught us, saying, Our Father…

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