Prayer Points
We are navigating some tough days together as believers. We all need help, and the reminders about God's perspective. Last Sunday, we prayed and brought our griefs and petitions to the Lord. As Elders, we wanted to share with you this prayer from Sunday. May it give voice to your own prayers. May our petitions bring healing, perspective, and gospel grace to bear on all of our interactions this week as His people.
In His mighty grace,
Your MCC Elders
Join us as we pray:
O Lord our God, we Your people, we come this morning before the presence of a holy God,
before the presence of a gracious and a true and a righteous God.
Lord we ask, would You hear our prayer this morning.
Lord we grieve; we grieve like the prophet Jeremiah
when he saw the suffering and the devastation in his land.
We grieve like the prophet Isaiah, like Nehemiah, and like others who knew
that they were not above the sin of their people and not above the sin of their day.
We grieve, Lord, for the unjust taking of lives,
and for communities that today are living in fear
and some in desperation.
We grieve also for the rampant destruction of property, businesses, and of livelihoods;
and Lord, we grieve for the suffering that both of these things bring
especially upon the lives of the poor.
Lord, we grieve - as we know You do - the racism, the prejudice, superiority in all of its forms
and the unhumility of human hearts that brings inhumanity
in myriad interactions to men and women of different races.
Lord, we grieve for our officers, and for the public workers
who have to carry out the impossible job of trying to serve and protect
when there are many conflicting forces, and that endanger them from various sides.
Have mercy, and guard over them we pray, Lord.
Lord, we grieve our own blindness
our blindness to others’ struggles,
our blindness to our own arrogance.
We grieve our own ignorance, our own weakness
for we do long, Lord God, to have spiritual power and holy wisdom
to be a part of the supernatural works of the building of Your Kingdom in this day.
Forgive us, Lord
where we have failed You
in duty
in witness
in word or in deed this week
and in love.
We ask You, Lord, judge wickedness and restrain evil
so that righteousness may be done, and peace can reign.
We ask You, Lord, bring justice to oppressive actors
and for the rule law in our land and through our systems to be trustworthy,
and to be true.
We ask You to bring justice to destructive and to anarchist forces
wherever they may seek to manipulate, or to operate.
We ask You Lord, preserve & provide peace
so that we might lead quiet lives in all godliness & dignity.
This morning, Lord, we look to You.
Lord open our eyes, to see the opportunities that are before us;
Lord open new doors, so that we can be agents of forgiveness, of reconciliation, of truth.
Lord open our hearts, so that we might feel the needs that are before us and care like You do.
Lord open our mouths, with gospel words, with gracious truth that we might be the
ambassadors for this generation that You have called us to be.
and Lord, would You send forth Your Spirit and do through us what You most want to do
in us today, and this week.
O Lord, we come. We come because You have called us;
We come because You have assembled us.
We ask Lord, would You be glorified here, in our praise and we ask that You would do Your
work in us so that Your Kingdom would come - even in part, through us - and that Your will
would be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
