A PERSONAL PRAYER
God of Love,
This week, as I stood with a man overcome with grief, he asked me “how will we get through this?” So I prayed to you for him, and I pray for him again now, that your Holy Spirit will give his whole family the strength to walk through this dark valley. It is the only way I know that they can get through it.
I know that there are so many others who are struggling in so many ways – those who are grieving,
those who are hungry,
those who are homeless,
those who are anxious about their livelihood,
those who are ill,
those who are afraid,
those who are desperate,
those who are weary,
those who are oppressed,
those who are in prison,
those who are lonely,
those who are confused,
those who are angry,
and most of all, God, those who are lost, who do not know your love.
Come as the Holy Spirit to anoint and fill all of your people, so that we might have the power to get through each day, and accomplish the mission you sent us to do.
Amen.