Prayers February 28th 2024, Lent,

         

         God our creator who goes before us

You draw us forward in faith

Like a pillar of fire across desert waste

A rock of assurance

As we journey this Lent time

Speak to us with your words of comfort and wisdom. 

 

Song “Lord from sorrows deep I call”

https://youtu.be/KYGhnbXtqbU

 

God of love and forgiveness

Save us by your tenderness

From each deed that is destructive

From each act that grieves you

From each thought that is careless

From each idea that is unloving

From each word that hurts.

Help us to face up to your call on our lives, by creating love and 

goodness, community, society where it has been broken. In Jesus Name, Amen.

 

We say the Lord’s Prayer in our own language

 

Isaiah 55v10-11

 

For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,

    and do not return there until they have watered the earth,

making it bring forth and sprout,

    giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

¹¹ so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;

    it shall not return to me empty,

but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,

    and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

  

We pray for the negotiations for peace in Gaza, for Israel, for peace in Ukraine, for Russia, For work to halt climate change, for the over 100 million displaced people, the homeless, the hungry, the distressed.  May God’s hand be upon us in these difficult times, your angels protect us and the Holy Spirit work in and around us. Amen  

 

Loving God help us to follow you

Into a place of quietness,

Where we may face beasts and wilderness

But we will know the presence of angels 

Even in the desert times. Amen.