Today I Pray

Dear Lord Our Father In Heaven,

Where are you? Help!

We, your children, invite you in!

We invite you into our churches, jobs, schools, and lives.

Lord, it feels strange to have to invite you into the walls that proclaim to be a House of Yours! But, I ask is your presence truly there or a facsimile of? Is your Word being taught or a watered-down version that pleases the masses?

Give our Pastors, Ministers, and Preachers the guts to speak your truth, whether it’s a popular stance or not! Popularity is a dangerous stance behind a pulpit of shifting, sinking sand!

Lord, it is a battlefield down here, and we need to know the truth, be taught the truth, walk in the truth, and proclaim it. Give us boldness like never before!

Please, Lord, help us to be examples of your words and actions, showing through our faith and walk the truth that is in you and the freedom that we are blessed with because of you.

What freedom, the freedom to love and worship you! The freedom to proclaim your name! The freedom to be who we are and speak up so our voices are heard over the roar of anger.

Lord, we invite you into our workplace! This is another area where we can show your grace, love, and kindness to an arena that’s worn out, overworked, underpaid, and frankly over it! Please help us show a positive light on dark and never-ending days.

Our schools are dungeons of fear, places of immoral decay, and crumbling walls of neglect. Our teachers are overwhelmed by class sizes and the lack of funding or support. They fight daily to bring some semblance of order into an often chaotic environment.

I pray over our youth and their protection. I also pray over our teachers, Lord, and give them strength, wisdom, and protection.

Our lives, Lord, please reach down and gently touch each of us who look to you daily for guidance, deliverance, healing, finances, hopes, and dreams. Thank you for always being there for us!

Holy Spirit, fill us with the fruit of your spirit: patience, peace, kindness, goodness, gentleness, self-control, and love. May we experience the same in return as we strive to share.

Lord, help us be a shining light of warmth, love, and laughter in a world that has become very dark, cold, and scary.

In your name Lord Jesus, we pray. Amen 😔