A Prayer for a Perplexing Time

Eternal God, Our Father, whose mercy is over all Thy works, hear now our prayer. We thank you for the remembrance that when we are not able to pray as we ought, your Spirit helps our infirmities with groanings which cannot be uttered.

We confess that we have done what we did not intend to do and we have left undone what we meant to do. Thou, O Lord, have mercy on us and forgive us. Deliver us, we beseech Thee, from the guilt and the power of sin and set us free to live a new life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

When the sorrows of life strike us and we cannot explain what has happened to us , we thank Thee that nothing can separate us from the Love of Christ. Give us, we pray, the faith that does not murmur or complain beneath the chastening rod, but in the hour of grief or pain will lean upon its God.

Glory be to Thee that our Fathers trusted in Thee and were not put to shame. Today, when we are distressed and afraid amid the perplexities of a changing order, renew in us, we beseech Thee, the eternal verities of our faith. Give us a sense of history as His story whom we love and serve. And as the mantle of the prophet has fallen upon thy chosen ones always in the fullness of time, so give us faith that Thou wilt renew Thy church in our day. Make us willing and lest we only disturb with dissension, cause the roots of our concern to go deep in the soil of The revealing truth that in our world we may see the fruit of Thy righteous will and way.

Now, we wait for Thee. In Thee do we trust and in Thy word do we hope through Jesus Christ our Lord.