Today is the Cornwall Alliance Day of Prayer for the Environment and the Poor! We chose today because it is Norman Borlaug's birthday. Dr. Borlaug is known as "The Man Who Fed the World" because of his work increasing crop yields. To learn more about his life click here. For a recent article by Dr. James Wanliss regarding Borlaug, click here. Today we are posting reflections and prayers hourly regarding a variety of topics relating to the environment and to those in poverty. Here is a list of … [Read more...]
Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith, Where there is despair, hope, Where there is darkness, light, Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, not so much to be understood as to understand, not so much to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in dying that we … [Read more...]
We Pray for Religious Leaders to Understand the Science and Economics of Climate Change and Energy Policy
Heavenly Father, I pray for religious leaders like Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, who with the best of intentions are urging their followers to embrace global warming alarmism, thinking that by so doing they will help protect the poor. Lord, please open their eyes to the strong scientific evidence that natural forces far outweigh human forces in determining Earth’s temperature and that reducing fossil fuel use will have little or no effect on temperature, … [Read more...]
We Pray that God Would Pour Down His Guidance and Wisdom
Our Father in heaven: What a blessed privilege it is to come before You in prayer. What joy it brings to us to know the assurance of Your presence with us, Your benevolence toward us, and Your lovingkindness that is ours forever because of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Our hearts are bowed and our minds are submitted to You in every way. In humility we seek Your guidance. We must have Your wisdom. We long for discernment born to us and in us by the Holy Spirit. Father, please do Your … [Read more...]
Thank You for the Gift of Jesus Christ
"God who made all things, the earth, the air, the sky; Who gave the light its birth, cares for me..." * But gladly I can thank and praise You O God, for making many like me to share all that you have created. I rejoice with my brothers and sisters. Life is not always pleasant because the first people made a mess of their lives by disobeying You! Thank you for so kindly sending the Lord Jesus Christ to deliver us from the penalty due to all of us for our rebellion. Now "when life's clouds … [Read more...]
We Pray that You will Raise up Leaders
Dear Father, As the infinitely wise, omnipotent, awesome, patient creator, we come to ask that you will help us raise up leaders who will guide us in obedience to your ancient command. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:28 (ESV) May these people guide us to use carefully and generously … [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...]
America, the Beautiful
O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! O beautiful for pilgrim feet, Whose stern impassion’d stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness! America! America! God mend thine ev’ry flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law! O beautiful for heroes proved In … [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...]
We Pray for “Daily Bread”
Father, we come to You requesting "daily bread" for our brothers and sisters the world over because we know when the Bride of Jesus has food, the hungry in their neighborhood will have food. Wait, forgive us, your children for the many times we have enjoyed plenty to eat and not even considered the hungry in the world nor how their hunger may be addressed. May those You raised up with the means to feed the poor prosper and increase, but teach us that physical food ought never to take the lead … [Read more...]
