A Month of Praying for Our Community
Monday, February 28. Father, we pray for all of the single-parent families in our neighborhoods. We ask that You would bring healing after a divorce and comfort after the death of a spouse and parent. We pray for relationships to be healed after a divorce and for parents to love and protect their children. Meet their financial needs and surround them with friends who will share Your love with them. “The Lord watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked” (Psalm 146:9).
Tuesday, March 1. Today we pray for the many ethnic groups that make up our community. We pray for peace between different ethnicities, for forgiveness if there have been sins against each other. We pray that we would all see beauty in the variety of languages and cultures around us, that we would take time to listen to each other’s’ stories. Help us, through Christ’s power, to appreciate and love each other as Your unique creations. “All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations will bow down before him…” (Psalm 22:27).
Lent Prayers Taken From “Lent And Easter Wisdom”, Compiled By John V. Kruse.
Wednesday, March 2 (First Day of Lent). Lord, I ask that you accompany me on my Lenten journey. Open my heart to your will for me. May the journey lead me to soul searching and conversion so that I might experience a deeper relationship with you when I arrive at the celebration of Easter joy.
Thursday, March 3. Lord, although I might not like to think about the topic, the reality of the matter is that someday I will die. As I contemplate the joy of your resurrection, I take great comfort in the knowledge that you will raise me also to new life. On that day, nothing that I have accumulated in this world, whether it be wealth, fame, power, or knowledge, will matter. Keep me mindful that all that matters now and all that will matter then is you. May knowledge of this reality shape how I view the world and all that I do and say.
Friday, March 4. Lord of Light, help me to not despair when the darkness of the sin of the world seems overwhelming. Inspired by your own example, may I not respond to the sin of others out of hatred but out of love. Fill me with the radiance of your resurrected life and make me a light amidst the darkness that reflects your love to the world.
Saturday, March 5. Lord during this season contemplating your victory over all sin, suffering, and death, fill me with your Spirit of joy so that I need not succumb to the sometimes overwhelming worries, troubles, and woes of the world.
Sunday, March 6 (First Sunday of Lent). Risen Christ of glory, you are the source of all that is good, true, pleasing, and beautiful in the world. Having conquered death through your resurrection, you continue to give life to all those who place their faith in you. Let me share in your risen life, both in this world and in the world to come.