World in Prayer

Sharing in God’s loving compassion for all

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, April 30, 2015

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. – Romans 12: 12   I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my understanding; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my understanding. -1 Cor 14: 14 – 16   Pray continually – 1 Thessalonians […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thurs., April 23, 2015

We have come to worship you, Lord our Shepherd.  You, Lord, are our shepherd.  Like any shepherd you watch over us, lead us to the best pastures of the mind, the best waters for the spirit, and like sheep we follow.  Sheep are not stupid and neither are we.  Forgive us our tendency to act […]

World News This Week In Prayer – Thursday, April 16, 2015

Many are saying, “Oh, that we might see better times!” Lift up the light of your countenance upon us, O LORD.     – Psalm 4:6   In this season of resurrection, lift up the light of your countenance upon us, O Lord, that we may see your risen Son, Jesus Christ, who walks with us, […]

World News This Week in Prayer- Thursday, April 9, 2015

Loving God, we pray for the opportunity to join you in the work of creation. The Bible declares that creation occurred first with light, when the world was full of emptiness and disorder. We look around and see disorder of our own time: in the United States, we are shocked by the cell phone recording […]

World News This Week in Prayer – almost Easter, 2015

It is the in-between time. At my church, we have just ended the Maundy Thursday service, remembered Jesus’ institution of the first Eucharist, been commanded to love as he loves us, washed one another’s feet, then stripped the altar. Tonight, Jesus will spend in agonizing prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, and we, his disciples, will try […]

World News In Prayer, Thursday, March 26, 2015

Archbishop Oscar Romero was murdered at the altar in a hospital chapel 25 years ago.  He wrote:   “We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must each do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us. The violence […]

World News in Prayer, Thursday March 19, 2015

Creator of all,  we come to you in this time of prayer with thankful hearts. Through your expansive love, we receive strength and hope. Through your tender mercy, we learn compassion and forgiveness. Through the gift of your son, Jesus Christ, we seek justice and peace for all people, all nations and all of creation. Help […]

World News in Prayer, Thursday 12th March 2015

 World News in Prayer for March 12, 2015   For God so loved the world… Gracious and holy one, God of all creation, God of all people everywhere, it is so easy, as we journey through this season of Lent, to get lost in the wilderness of pain and sorrow we see in the world […]

World News in Prayer, Thursday 5th March 2015

Dear God in heaven, You hear in our words more exasperation than prayer.  I apologize.  We too often use your name as an exclamation point than as our Lord and Savior. Truth be told, we cry out in fear.  The world we live in, our age, this generation is in a long season of fear.  […]