Deus Misereatur

  Holy Father, you who are the highwater mark of all true fatherhood: we are grateful for our fathers, especially when their firm love and care reverberated harmoniously with the melody of your own fatherhood. Help us to rightly honor our fathers and their memories. For those fathers in our lives who missed the mark, grant them to find you a true Father in Jesus Christ; repair that which they scarred or marred or broke and heal the wounds. For the fathers here in our fellowship we ask you to guide us by your fatherly hand that we will be, more and more, a noble and wholesome reflection of you to our children, whether those children are still at home or out on their own. And reclaim and reestablish the honorableness of fatherhood in your church throughout America. Lord God of Hosts, the whole earth is filled with your glory. For the welfare of all we beseech you to arm world leaders with the tools, desires, energy and abilities to establish and enforce real justice and integrity tha...

Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep. LORD, you are the One who builds the house, and watches over the city. We plant and water, but you are the one who gives the growth! Bless our congregation with fitting and fair growth; that we would grow roots downward and bear fruit upward; that you would add to our number such as are being saved. Further, we pray for your Church all around this marvelous globe, as well as Westmoore Community Covenant Church, Lighthouse Foursquare, Resurrection Free Methodist and Edmond Free Methodist Church. Uproot the weeds of heresy and apostasy from your church; and cause all to flourish and grow and fruitfully blossom with your true truth and peace. But we also pray for our General Assembly that meets at the end of this month. Prese...

  (Today I opened the Board of County Commissioners meeting with prayer. This is the way it went) Hear God’s words to all : “ Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly. A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly” (Proverbs 14:29 and 15:1-2).   I now invite all who can,  in good conscience, join me as I pray to Almighty God through the mediation of the Lord Jesus Christ:   Holy God, you have given us the ability to communicate with you and with one another, for the purposes of drawing near to you, and for promoting the common good and wellbeing of our community. Help us to promote civility and genuine integrity in our homes, businesses, and civic discourses, and grant these public leaders your aid as they deliberate, discuss, and decide issues of importance for our county and city, such as regarding roadways, bridge...

  Moses once announced, “ For the LORD your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them ” (Deuteronomy 4:31); and Paul once prayed, “ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort ” (2 Corinthians 1:3). We rejoice that you are merciful, a God of mercies and comfort! Be merciful to your people on every continent, counting this congregation, St. Augustine Episcopal, St. James Episcopal, St. Paul’s Episcopal and Trinity Episcopal. Bring reformation and revival. Exonerate what is true and right and change the hearts and perspectives of those who are misguided and wrongheaded. Be merciful toward our brothers and sisters facing difficult times in difficult places like Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Sudan, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Be merciful and grant us your gracious presence and strength. Be merciful to the Presbyterian Church in America. Govern and g...

  Creator God, in the beginning you made all things of nothing by the power of your word, and all very good and your Spirit hovered over all that was formless and void to bring forth order and life. We pray for your Spirit to hover over us; and we pray that your Spirit will continue to cause the earth to bring forth bountifully. We pray: Come, Holy Spirit! Revealing God, you assigned prophets, Apostles, Judges, and Psalmists – like Moses, Deborah, David and Isaiah, Peter and Paul – to bring forth your decrees, directions and adorations, and you clothed them with your Spirit who guided them and testified through them of the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. Cloth us with your Spirit that we may bravely serve you and our neighbors in love and truth pointing them to Jesus. We pray: Come, Holy Spirit! Holy God, you sent your Son Jesus Christ into the world that through him we might have life. And after his death, burial, resurrection and ascension, you sent forth your Ho...

  Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his commandments! His offspring will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed. We pray for your Church, O God, throughout the greater Oklahoma City area, this congregation, Grace Covenant, St. Benedict Orthodox, St. Elijah Antiochan Orthodox, and St. George Greek Orthodox. May your Church be blessed walking in the fear of God, submitting to Scripture alone, believing in Christ alone and delighting in your glory alone. May we be repentant where we have gone astray, especially where we have come to rely on our own works and ethnic pride as somehow giving us standing with you. May your grace break in, reforming and reviving us in our manners, message, and mission. Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever. Light dawns in the darkness for the upright; he is gracious, merciful, and righteous. Watch over Pastor Ezra Jyn, those beloved brothers an...