A Prayer for Us Today

Our Father, our King, for You are King of the universe and we are your grateful subjects, we give you our praise. You have redeemed us. You have brought us out and called us forth. You are unfailing in mercy, unimpeachable in justice, unrivaled in compassion, unfaltering in love, unending in goodness and unequal in forgiveness. You are our only God. We rejoice in You. We honor You. We come willingly to obey You, our King. By Your hand we receive life again today. According to Your will, we are placed in the circumstances of our communities. We know that Your purposes will prevail and we rest confidently in Your care. We wish only to be fruitful citizens of the Kingdom of Your grace, demonstrating our obedience in order that You may demonstrate Your glory though us. May Your will be done in us today.

Our Father, You direct us to cast every burden on You for You proclaims through your servant Peter that You care of us. According to Your direction, today we lift our fellow travelers to You. For Robert, Anthony and James, we ask provision. May the trials of current unemployment become opportunities to draw closer to You, discover Your gracious bounty and find renewed direction as You engineer life. For Kathleen, Truthful Loving Kindness and Bessy, we ask for contentment experienced in Your power and confidence displayed in Your protection. You, O Lord, are sovereign over body and soul. With healing in Your wings, we plead that You may demonstrate Your sovereignty now over the course of life in these sisters so that we may all rejoice once more in Your resurrecting power. For Alissa, we ask that You show Yourself as El-Shaddai, the Lord most capable, able to sustain those who have dedicated themselves to Your redemption of this world. For Edy, we ask You show Yourself the sovereign Lord of life over all relationships and especially over those within our families. For those unnamed but whose names You know so dearly and so intimately, we ask that Your purposes, which are never unfulfilled, may be revealed in order that each of us may walk confidently according to Your will.

And Father, if You so choose to bring about for Your good and Your intentions, what we cannot fathom and cannot reconcile, then give us the strength to rely entirely on who You are, on Your character as the One True God, the Most High, the King of all kings. Remind us, O Lord and King, that we do not worship You for Your benevolence toward us, as much as we need and long for Your grace, but we worship You because You are the Lord of life. May Your peace fall upon us today. May it be enough for us to say, we are Yours to do with as You will in order that Your glory may be served. May our hearts be formed around Your desires and may be delight You in all that we do.

Amen.