Today, on our Day of Prayer for the Environment and the Poor, we have invited our supporters and friends to partner with us as we ask for God’s will to be done. Below are prayers submitted by members of our community.

“Father, we are not asking that you void your word. We have lived with the torment, destruction, suffering, and premature death caused by evil for many decades. You are our Father, the one and only living God, we beseech you to deliver us, your children in the Name of Jesus.

Amen.”

“Dear Heavenly Father.  I pray that you will be with all of us who are suffering – from those with life-threatening diseases that affect themselves or a loved one to those with more minor afflictions that nevertheless weigh heavily on our minds.  Please remind us that you are indeed Lord of all and that all things work together for good to them that love You.  Remind us also that what we see now is only a dimly lit view and that everything on this Earth is transient.  We praise you, Gracious Lord, for your loving guidance, your caring nature, and the gift of your only Son, Jesus Christ, who is the only salvation by which our sins can be forgiven and our fellowship with you can be restored.  We pray this in the name of your Holy Son, Jesus Christ.  

Amen.”

“All praise be given to the Father of all creation, the Alpha and the Omega who has always existed and shall always exist!  We praise you, the Most High sovereign God, for your wisdom, your power, and your righteousness.  We praise you for your healing power, your leading of us—our blameless provider.  Teach us the ways you would have us go and build us into what you would have us be.  We repent for our sins and we rely on the saving grace provided by your Son, Jesus Christ.  We turn our hearts to you and to doing your will, through your sovereign guidance and direction.  As we pray in your beloved name,

Amen.”

“Gracious Lord, we know that all things occur according to Your providential plan, yet we see things as it were from the backside of a tapestry. Our world today suffers from wars and rumors of wars, from natural disasters and human folly, from failures of courage and failures of virtue. As a result, the poor and the oppressed suffer, and all creation groans as in the labors of childbirth. But Your Word assures us that those labors really are the labors of childbirth. They are not vain but will bear the fruit You have planned. Strengthen our faith, we pray, that we might look ahead with a firm hope of the New Heavens and New Earth, a hope that rests not on our fallible efforts but on the infallible faithfulness and sovereignty of our Creator, Sustainer, and Redeemer. This we pray in the name of Your Son our Lord Jesus Christ, resting in Your Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life,

Amen.”

“Our Father in heaven, I thank You for the beautiful goodness of Your creation. As I gaze out my windows even at this very moment, I see the signs of spring—daffodils, tiny pink flowers sprinkled through my lawn, the bare beginnings of buds on oaks and hickories and sycamores, and irises poking through the soil. Thank You, God, for revealing to us Your determination following the great Flood of Noah’s day that

“While the earth remains,

Seedtime and harvest,

And cold and heat,

And summer and winter,

And day and night

Shall not cease.”

Amen”