LORD, Righteous in All Your Ways, Kind in All Your Works - 30 July 2023
LORD, faithful in all your words and kind in all your works: we are grateful that you uphold all who are falling and raise up all who are bowed down. Truly, the eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season. You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing (Psalm 145:13b-16). It is to you we pray: Grant, Almighty God, that all who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours (1 Corinthians 1:2) may be united in your truth, live together in your love, and reveal your glory in the world. We ask this for your people world over, for this congregation, and for First Nazarene-OKC, Piedmont, Providence, and Waterloo Road Church of the Nazarene. Lord, in your mercy hear our prayer. Guide the people of all the nations, including South Africa, North and South Sudan, Spain, and Sri Lanka, in the ways of justice and peace; that we may honor one another and serve the common good. And preserve these United States of ...