"We Long to See..." - 27 August 2023

 

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, frettings and woes all into faith in you. Be pleased to continue to add to this your flock such as are being saved. And in all we do, retired guys coffee, women’s Bible study, and Sunday School classes, etc. help us to glorify and enjoy you better.

Be with your Church all over the earth, including St. James Episcopal, St. Michael’s, St. Paul’s and St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church, as well as our brothers and sisters who seem to be drowning in persecution, famine, economic collapse and warfare. 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 us; make haste to help us O Lord! 

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

God of justice and compassion, we pray for Maui and California hit hard by fires, flooding, and storms. Many have lost much; some have lost all. There’s pain, fear, dreams, memories, and misery. Relieve them. Bring them needed aid to rebuild their lives.

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 pray that you would bring lasting and substantial peace to all nations, including Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and our own country. Bestow on all lands godly and goodly government that there would be true, 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 and order in creation, and new desires for obeying You. 

And now we join together to pray as our Lord Jesus directed, Our Father, who art in heaven…

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