"O Lord, Make Us Have a Perpetual Love..." - 7 February 2021

 

O Lord, make us have a perpetual love and reverence for your holy Name, for you never fail to help and govern those whom you have set upon the sure foundation of your loving-kindness through Jesus Christ our Lord.

On behalf of your Church throughout the world, as well as Abundant Life Seventh Day Adventist Church, Cathedral of Hope, Midwest City Hispanic and North Highland Community church, we pray. Show yourself strong on behalf of those who are suffering for righteousness sake, show them a sign of your favor that those who hate them may see it and be put to shame, because you have helped and comforted your people (Psalm 86:17). Reclaim those who have lost their way and exchanged your glory for their own avarice or their own ambition; Fill up what is lacking and cause your work to prosper in the hands of those who are working and serving for your honor.

Look upon the President of these United States, the Governor of Oklahoma, the Mayors of Oklahoma City and Edmond, and all others in authority. So replenish them with the grace and guidance of the Holy Spirit that they may always incline to your will and walk in your way. And may our fellow inhabitants in this nation turn to you. We also ask you to steer the nations of the earth and pilot the leaders of all lands into the way of uprightness and integrity, establishing among them that peace which is the fruit of righteousness, and guide them to love you and their neighbors. And send forth your Gospel and your enlivening Spirit, so that Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Afghani warlords, Mexican drug cartels, Atheists, Agnostics and Secularists may come to embrace the Lord Jesus Christ, turn from their gods or godlessness to the living and true God and be saved from the wrath to come (1 Thessalonians 1:9-10).

Rescue from sin, self-destruction, or sacrilege these for whom we now pray (…).

Merciful Father, you have taught us in your Holy Word, that you do not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men (Lamentations 3:33): look with kindness upon the sorrows, pains, and needs of these for whom our prayers are offered (…). Look upon them in mercy, nourish them with patience, comfort them with a sense of your goodness, lift up your face upon them, and give them peace and wholeness.

We commend to your gracious care all those who have gone from us into the military, college, seminary or work; those who have moved away and those who have moved on (…). Defend them day by day with your heavenly grace; strengthen them in their trials and temptations; give them courage to face the perils which beset them; and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be.

 All of these requests we ask in the name of Jesus Christ, your Son and our Saving Lord, as we pray together what he taught us, saying; Our Father…