Lord, teach us how to pray, and help us to pray now. We bring before you now our fellow-people in Palestine and Israel. Ordinary people lying in their beds waiting for a bomb to drop on their house. Parents wondering whether their children will be killed on the way to school. Deep inequalities leaving people …
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Prayer: God our mother
Lord, teach us how to pray, and help us to pray now. God our mother, fight for us Fight for our fellow people in Yemen. So many people are starving and grieving and under threat every day. Dealing with our own crisis, the UK has drastically cut the funding it is providing. Could this be …
Prayer: we don’t want to be lonely survivors of a new great war
Lord, teach us how to pray, and help us to pray now. We thank you for the courage and sacrifice of so many people who have risked everything, given everything for our safety. We pray for all the people involved in war today. We ask for protection over their bodies and minds, and their behaviour. …
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Prayer: We’ve built our houses on sand
Lord, teach us how to pray, and help us to pray now. We pray that the COVID-19 pandemic would slow down and stop. We ask for effective treatments and vaccines to be developed. We pray for good judgement and compassion in leaders across the world. Please help the people in countries where infections are increasing …
Prayer: Streams of tears flow from my eyes
Lord, teach us how to pray, and help us to pray now. The prayers today will be interspersed with readings from Lamentations 3. Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed. My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief, until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees. Lord, our enemies are …
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Prayer: Racism; warrior god in a brutal world
Lord, teach us how to pray, and help us to pray now. Lord, we have been reminded recently of what a brutal world you have put us in: a world where children are kept away from their parents’ funeral by a virus, where abusers are locked in a house with their victims, where the rich …
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Prayer: COVID-19; we trust that there is life
Lord, teach us how to pray, and help us to pray now. The world situation with coronavirus is utterly overwhelming. So many people dying, and grieving for people who have died. So many people frightened for their lives. So many people whose income has been cut off and don’t know how they will feed themselves …
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Prayer: playgroup, Sri Lanka, religious tolerance
Lord, please help us to pray now, and teach us how to pray. We thank you for the way the church playgroup spreads the good news of your love to so many people who don’t get to hear it in other places. We thank you so much for answering our prayers as a church to …
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Prayer: Sometimes I am busy being wrapped up in myself
I’m hoping to lead us today in a prayer of repentance. I’m going to pray it for myself, and I would ask you to pray with me where you feel it’s right to do so. Let’s pray. Lord, I am sorry for the times I have missed an opportunity to welcome someone to our church. …
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Prayer for Zimbabwe, Nigeria, USA, DR Congo and ourselves in hard economic times
Lord please teach us how to pray. Please hear our prayers and respond in ways we can’t ignore. We ask you to change us. We pray for the people of Zimbabwe. We ask that the cholera epidemic would be brought under control, and that you would guide and protect the people working to fight it. …
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