Eternal God, our Father, we gather before Thee in prayer to praise Thee and to make all our wants and wishes known. We thank Thee for Jesus'assurance that our heavenly Father knows our needs before we ask Him.
We confess our sins. We are selfish rather than unselfish and Christ centered. We provide our bodies with every need while our spirits grown lean and gaunt. We make war rather than peace. We demand justice for ourselves and deny it to others. We yearn for happiness but we find it not because we seek it in things which pass away. We remember how our Lord Jesus wept over Jerusalem crying, " How often would I have gathered you together as a hen gathers her chickens under her wing, but you would not. Would than even today you knew that things that make for peace." O Lord, make us ready to listen and to learn less our house be left to us desolate.
We lift up to Thee this distraught world and all who need Thee in some special and particular way. Help us all to be still and know the Lord is on our side. Knowing this, may we bear patiently our cross of grief or pain and leave to God to order and provide knowing that in every change He faithful will remain.
Pour down Thy Holy Spirit on us all and cause to grow in us the fruits of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, kindness, and self control. And to Thee shall be the glory in Christ Jesus throughout all the ages, world without end. Amen
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