Dear Father in Heaven, We thank You for your continuous work among the men and women of this world, making them better each day. You have made us with unique gifts and callings, and we acknowledge the work of Your hand in the economic development of post-industrial era. Lord, as we stare upon uncertain future due to the economic impact of the coronavirus, we ask you to make a way for the future. Just as You helped the world overcome so many diseases and pestilences in the past, we ask You … [Read more...]
Father, We Praise You For This World You Have Given To Us!
This prayer was submitted by a friend of the Cornwall Alliance. Heavenly Father, we praise you first of all for your work of redemption — for delivering us from the punishment that we deserve for our self-centeredness and for our failure to consistently translate your concern for the poor into action. We thank you Father for giving us forgiveness as a free gift, for we could never earn it. And as we look at your creation, we thank you that you have also given us the use … [Read more...]
Prayers Based on The Biblical Perspective of Environmental Stewardship
In 2013 the Cornwall Alliance, at the request of the International Church Council Project, developed a summary, in 30 pairs of affirmations and denials, of how Biblical worldview, theology, and ethics provide a foundation for environmental stewardship. The result was The Biblical Perspective of Environmental Stewardship: Subduing and Ruling the Earth to the Glory of God and the Benefit of Our Neighbors. What follows are seventeen prayers based on that statement. We hope you’ll find them useful … [Read more...]
What do “The Man Who Fed the World,” And the Cornwall Day of Prayer Have in Common?
What do Norman Borlaug, and the Cornwall Alliance Day of Prayer have in common? A day. March 25th is the birthday of Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Norman Borlaug. Dr. Borlaug worked to extend crop yields and relieve hunger and poverty around the world. In addition to the Nobel Peace Prize, he received The Presidential Medal of Freedom, Vannevar Bush Award, Public Welfare Medal, National Medal of Science, Congressional Gold Medal, and the Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian honor. The … [Read more...]
You shall not covet
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s. Heavenly Father, Your Word is filled with warnings about the dangers associated with riches. What will it profit a man if he gain the whole world but lose his own soul? Such is the danger to every individual who lets riches take Your place. You teach us, instead of pursuing wealth, to pursue contentment … [Read more...]
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Father, twice in a single sentence You spoke, through the prophet Isaiah, of Yourself as “the God of truth,” and our Savior Jesus spoke of Himself as the way the Truth and the life and prayed that we might be sanctified through the truth, adding that Your Word is truth. Give us a passion for truth, we pray. Teach us, as the Apostle Paul instructed, to test all things, hold fast what is good. Rid us of the plague of relativism, which refuses to recognize that truth and falsehood are incompatible, … [Read more...]
You shall not steal.
Lord, You tell us that the earth is Yours because You made it, and from that we learn that producing something is the basis of ownership. You also tell us to respect others’ property—not only that we don’t steal it, but also that we don’t harm it, but instead act to preserve it securely as their own. You demonstrate justice to us in that You render to everyone his due. But today there are many who pervert the meaning of justice so as to violate property rather than preserve it. Not to each his … [Read more...]
You Shall Not Murder
O LORD our God, you have made every man, woman, and child an image of Yourself, to be honored and respected for that reason all by itself. Yet millennium after millennium, century after century, decade after decade, year after year, month after month, week after week, day after day, we have, as a human race, shown contempt for Your image by showing contempt for our fellow man, even to the point of killing with no just cause. We are angry, and our anger leads to violence and killing. We are … [Read more...]
Honor Your Father and Mother
Honor your father and mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. Father in Heaven, You are the model Father. You show us what it truly means to love our children. While those who don’t know you worry about what they will eat or what they will wear or where they live, You feed the birds of the air and clothe the flowers of the field, and You assure us that if You do those things, You will take care of us, too, so that we will seek first Your Kingdom and … [Read more...]
Remember the Sabbath day, to Keep it Holy
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Lord, You … [Read more...]
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