Lord, teach us how to pray, and help us to pray now. We pray for the war in Ukraine. Please end the violence and allow people to return to their homes in safety, and soldiers to return home unharmed. We ask for a way out that all the leaders can accept, and makes a lasting …
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Prayer: your manifesto
Lord, teach us how to pray, and help us to pray now. We pray for Sri Lanka. With food and fuel prices unaffordable and rising, and shortages of medicine, people are angry and afraid. We ask for relief for ordinary people who need to travel to work, and need food and medicine. We pray for …
Prayer: A glimmer of hope
Lord, teach us how to pray, and help us to pray now. We pray for the people of Ukraine. We ask for safety, and an end to the war. We ask that people would be able to return to their homes. We pray for Western leaders and the Russian leadership: please give them cool heads. …
Prayer: addicted to our dishonest scales
Lord, teach us how to pray, and help us to pray now. The words of Micah 6 are hard to hear. I walk past two people sleeping in the walkway by Waitrose and I try not to think about what part I have to play in the cause. Who removed them from the place they …
Prayer for Remembrance Day: how can you stand to watch?
Lord, teach us how to pray, and help us to pray now. We’re together today to honour and thank you for the courage and sacrifice of people who put their lives on the line to protect us. We pray for the families mourning the loss of their precious children and parents, friends and family members. …
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Prayer: we offer ourselves
Lord, teach us how to pray, and help us to pray now. We bring before you the people we know who are unwell or in distress. Please heal them and comfort them. Please provide people with skill, compassion and friendship to help them. We offer ourselves to help. Lord, hear our prayers for these people, …
Prayer: our sin holds us here
Lord, teach us how to pray, and help us to pray now. We bring before you now our fellow-people in Palestine and Israel. Ordinary people lying in their beds waiting for a bomb to drop on their house. Parents wondering whether their children will be killed on the way to school. Deep inequalities leaving people …
Prayer: God our mother
Lord, teach us how to pray, and help us to pray now. God our mother, fight for us Fight for our fellow people in Yemen. So many people are starving and grieving and under threat every day. Dealing with our own crisis, the UK has drastically cut the funding it is providing. Could this be …
Prayer: we don’t want to be lonely survivors of a new great war
Lord, teach us how to pray, and help us to pray now. We thank you for the courage and sacrifice of so many people who have risked everything, given everything for our safety. We pray for all the people involved in war today. We ask for protection over their bodies and minds, and their behaviour. …
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Prayer: We’ve built our houses on sand
Lord, teach us how to pray, and help us to pray now. We pray that the COVID-19 pandemic would slow down and stop. We ask for effective treatments and vaccines to be developed. We pray for good judgement and compassion in leaders across the world. Please help the people in countries where infections are increasing …