Our Father in heaven, we confess that as children of Adam we have sinned, both in him our covenant head and by our own immediate actions. You created us to be Your covenant representatives, to subdue and rule the earth for Your glory and our neighbors’ benefit by transforming wilderness into garden that we are then to cultivate and guard. But we chose to seek our own glory instead, and soon every imagination of our hearts was only evil continually, and so in Your justice You judged us and the … [Read more...]
We are Grateful for this Beautiful World
Father, thank you for this beautiful world that You have given to us to live out our lives on this side of glory. We are grateful for its vastness and its diversity. We are blessed by its resources and its resourcefulness in renewing itself day by day and season by season. Help us, O’ Lord, to be wise stewards of your creation. Guide us as we seek to use it for our good and for Your glory. Let us never abandon or abuse any of Your gifts to us including our environment, but let us be mindful … [Read more...]
We Thank God for Forgiveness and Pray That He Would Give Us His Heart for the World
Merciful Lord God, We thank you for calling us to prayer in the Spirit of Adoption, by whom we cry to you, "Abba! Father!" We thank you for your Word, by which we know "that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God." We thank you that through Jesus Christ all things are made new, and we yearn for the fullness of the promise. We confess that we have too often used your creation thoughtlessly. We have sinned in … [Read more...]
A Prayer For the Preservation Of the Unborn
O Lord and giver of life, who hovered over the face of the deep, who animated our first parents, who gives life to all his image bearers, who sustains our common life together, who grants new life to all his people through the gospel, we pray that you might move mightily to preserve the life of unborn image bearers. We pray that you might protect them in the womb by softening the hearts of men and women whether they find themselves in distress, public pressure, or tempted to take advantage of … [Read more...]
Give me a Sensitivity to the Poor in my City, Nation, and World
Heavenly Father, we know that the poor of our world are close to your heart. You told us, “Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done.” Please give me sensitivity to the poor in my city, nation and world, so I will have your heart for them, and your mind. Give me wisdom regarding how to channel the resources that you entrust me to steward. Teach me when and how to use time, abilities, funds, influence, so that you may be glorified. Poverty … [Read more...]
We Pray that You Would Defend the Poor
Lord you are concerned for the poor. You are their defender; their shield. And Lord we know that those that set themselves against the poor set themselves against you. Especially when they do it for gain. And so Father, we pray for the poor that are being injured through the narcissistic environmental policies of the 1st world. Lord, the rich are keeping the common wealth of humanity from the poor through political and economic machinations and the poor are being ground down. See this evil, … [Read more...]
We Pray for a Return to the Genesis Mandate
Our Heavenly Father, We do recognize that in the world today, one of the primary reasons many people are destitute, is often because all too many people and their governments, worship or give too much deference to nature and the natural world that prevents them fulfilling their divinely ordained mandate to subdue and fill the earth as originally intended – emanating from the Garden of Eden as a model to follow. This same mandate was taken seriously by Joshua’s generation who subdued the … [Read more...]
Cornwall Alliance to Host Day of Prayer for the Environment and the Poor
For Immediate Release March 1, 2015—The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation will host a Day of Prayer for the Environment and the Poor on March 25. This is an opportunity to draw near to God our Creator while praying for the world’s poor and for godly stewardship of the earth. March 25 is the birthday of Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Norman Borlaug, “Father of the Green Revolution,” whose work increasing crop yields around the globe made him “The Man Who Fed the World.” “In 1968 … [Read more...]
Cornwall Alliance Guide to Prayer for the Environment and the Poor
Thank you for participating in the Cornwall Alliance’s Day of Prayer for the Environment and the Poor! Throughout March 1-25, we will share many specific prayer requests for the environment and the poor. Here, however, are some broad, general ideas to guide you in prayer: 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 Does Christmas Have to Do with Ecology?
Nearly fifty years ago, historian Lynn White, Jr., published in Science magazine an article that soon became famous, was reproduced hundreds of times in anthologies and course readings, and is still in use in college courses on environmental ethics, religion, and policy. In “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,” White claimed, “By destroying pagan animism, Christianity made it possible to exploit nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects” and that the Bible … [Read more...]
