"We Come, Lord, At Your Bidding" - 3 May 2026

 

It is our privilege and honor to be invited into your presence to pray on behalf of the world and your church. And in your Son Jesus Christ our Lord you have given us bold access into your presence to bring our cares and petitions. We come, Lord, at your invitation and bidding.

For those in our State, townships and neighborhoods who feel that all hope is gone; who are in despair and deep in darkness; who are in continual pain. We pray that you would place people in their lives who will hold on to them and walk with them through it all. And we especially pray for those who are having thoughts of suicide. O God, break into the grief and gloom with your hope, and raise them up to see your life and light in Jesus Christ.

For those who are in great need, who have chronic health troubles, who are being treated for cancer, and other infirmities (…). We pray for them to have relief, to walk whole and healthy. And we pray for them to overcome the doubts and disbelief that seem to normally lurk around in the shadows at times like these.

For all of the countries of our world – including the U.S.A.; Iran; Mongolia; Montenegro; Morocco; and Mozambique – give peace in our time! We pray that our world divided and enslaved as it is by sin and pride would come to be freed and brought together under the gracious rule of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For those who claim to be the children of Abraham, but look away from Jesus the Messiah, and look to the Wailing Wall, or trust in Torah, or listen to Zophar and practice Kabbalah, or who think that keeping their Jewish identity intact somehow makes them super right with you; for them we pray. Break into their systems, synagogues and spheres, and show them that Yehoshua ha Mashiach is the eternal Son of God who became man, and so was and continues to be God and Man in two distinct natures and one person forever. May they come to submit to and rely on Jesus as he is freely offered in the gospel. May they surrender to Jesus who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. 

Finally, we pray for your church on every continent and here at home – together with this congregation, Providence Church of the Nazarene, Waterloo Road Nazarene, Crossings Community Church, and Bethel Congregational Church. We pray that as the Holy Spirit is Jesus focused and all about building up and building together Jesus’ Church, we all would be as well. And we pray that the elevating work of the Spirit would raise us all out of and away from pride-of-place, pride-of-race, pride-of-gift or pride-of-rift, and lift us up to work out beautifully what it means to be the body of Christ so that all the world may come to believe you sent Jesus, and that we are his disciples. Those who have wandered far from you in the name of tolerance and progress, bring them back. And now we pray in the power of the Spirit as Jesus taught us, saying, Our Father…

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