March 25th is the birthday of Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Norman Borlaug, “Father of the Green Revolution” and “The Man Who Fed the World” by his work increasing crop yields around the world. In 1968 Paul Ehrlich published The Population Bomb, claiming that there was no hope to feed rising populations. Millions would starve to death no matter what remedial actions were taken. But, while he was publishing his predictions of doom and gloom, Dr. Borlaug had already set out to create a … [Read more...]
A Prayer for Billions to Rise Out of Poverty
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...]
Lord, We Ask Your Forgiveness
Lord God, you are Our Creator, Our Savior, our Holy Spirit, so we come before you now in the midst of this serious coronavirus situation to ask your forgiveness and to ask your help to be good stewards of your Creation, good witnesses to your Life and Resurrection, and great encouragers to everyone who needs to hear your Good News, especially those who are in need physically or spiritually. Dad, be with us in times of trials and tribulations, give us the grace to use wisdom, knowledge and … [Read more...]
Protect Us From Corruption and Government Overreach We Pray
Lord, We thank you for the wisdom embodied in the Cornwall Alliance group and leadership. Please save the world from the deceptions that we mankind must control the earth, but rather remind us that we are simply stewards to use your resources to spread the Word through travel, technology, and education of the peoples. Protect us from those men that would us coronavirus to increase governmental controls, poverty, and waste with all their corruptions. In fact we ask you to strengthen … [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...]
Cooped Up at Home? You’re Invited!
Every year on March 25 the Cornwall Alliance hosts a Day of Prayer for the Environment and the Poor. This year, with the Coronavirus bringing suffering to millions all over the world, we really need to pray. Here are some broad, general ideas to guide you. First, begin with praise and thanksgiving to God for His wisdom, power, and love displayed in all of creation;His faithfully preserving all of creation;His just judgments in creation for man’s sin;His plan to … [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...]
Cornwall Day of Prayer: A Prayer for Energy Liberation and Development
Dear Father in Heaven, We come to you in prayer and ask you to liberate the nations of this world from poverty. We specifically pray for the strengthening of our existing energy infrastructure and opportunities to utilize new resources like natural gas. We pray that you will guide the nations of the world and its leaders to harness the wealth of natural resources that you have created for the well-being of us and our future generations. Lord, help us develop clean technologies—like 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...]
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