Creator God,
This day we
pray to you for the world you made,
For the
places and peoples forgotten and hurt,
For the
places and peoples left in the lurch,
We pray for
the war ravaged, the savaged and pillaged,
We pray for
the places torn apart by disaster and disease,
We pray the constant
crisis found in the middle-east,
We call down
your mercy and call down your grace
On the places
we know needing your embrace,
We pause in
the silence to hold before you,
The lands that
are suffering and the lands without hope.
SILENCE
Lord we ask
that you would bring your peace,
Lord we ask
that you would bring your release.
Instigator
God,
This day we
pray for your Church in this world,
Your voice
to the voiceless
And your
hand of service for the poor
We ask Lord
that you would raise up your Church,
To be a sign
of your Kingdom
And a sign
of your love
That from
your Church would flow streams of living water
Riddled with
good news
Help us
stand as your people, to stand up from our pews
To embody
your love Jesus and bring forth your good news.
We pause in
the silence to hold before you,
Your Church
at this time and all it could do.
SILENCE
Lord we ask
that you would move your Church by your Spirit
Lord we ask
that your Church would go to the people and draw the people to it.
Saviour God,
We thank you
Lord for your work in our lives,
We thank you
for the way you see past our pride,
We delight
in you as you delight in us,
Help us Lord
to do what we must,
And help us
to live-out lives shaped by the cross
Help us to
walk with the lonely and lost
We pause in
the silence to hold before you,
The pains of
those needing your grace and the pains on the hearts of those gathered in this
place.
SILENCE (+ PARTICULAR
PRAYERS)
Lord we lay
all these prayers at your feet,
Lord we know
you can meet every need.
Help us to
unburden ourselves at the cross
And give us
your heart for the broken and lost
Show us a
vision of your kingdom to be built
And help us
to flourish by your Spirit, freed from past guilts.
We pray in
the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
And we are
grateful that when we pray you hear it. AMEN.
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