Lord,
Thank you for being merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. Thank you for forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. Thank you for being just.
Please keep the Fikkert family safe on their sabbatical, and please make it a special and rejuvenating experience for them.
Please help families whose children are learning remotely this fall. Please protect children, please help them learn, and please help their parents. Please help school staff. Please help teachers as they prepare to do their best in remote classroom settings. Please help school administrators as they navigate making decisions that will not make everyone happy.
Please help families who have lost, or are in fear of losing income or businesses. Please provide for those who are on the verge of homelessness as a result of the pandemic. Please help and restore those who are homeless. Please help children in the middle of these situations.
Please keep the people of Communion Church relationally connected to each other and functioning as a healthy body, despite the major challenges in doing so. Please use the people of Communion Church to help each other and protect each other from simply fading away from community engagement.
Please give wisdom and discernment to government leaders.
Please enable us to do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
We ask that you would come quickly, Lord Jesus. But until then, we pray together:
Our Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever.Amen.