Articles - Miscellaneous

Prayer for Change

The Prayer for Change is printed simultaneously in the magazines of St Andrew's URC, Lidgett Park Methodist Church and St Edmund's.

Lord, you have given us this beautiful world. You have given us the ability to develop crops and animals to satisfy our hunger, yet we have gone further. We are poisoning your world and destroying many of your creatures. Teach us good Lord to come to our senses, and to know that we interfere with your world at our peril. Give us grace to let your hand, not ours, rule the world. Help us to understand that in the end you will have the final say because the universe is yours and all that is in it. Amen

Father, we pray that when the interests and aspirations of nations conflict with one another over the natural resources you have provided for us, their leaders may not turn to war, but together may seek a just and acceptable way forward, so that suspicions may be allayed, misunderstandings clarified, violence averted and peace preserved. We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

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