World in Prayer

Sharing in God’s loving compassion for all

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, May 26, 2022

God, We need you now. We needed you yesterday. We need you today. We need you tomorrow. We need you now. We need you to do something. To stop the brutal unfathomable violence that is surfacing in every part of our world. We need you to change the hearts of lawmakers. We need you to […]

World News This Week in Prayer, Thursday, May 19, 2022

Loving and ever-present God, we come before you this week bringing all that we are seeking your presence, your love, your wisdom, and your grace. We do not have to look far to see the brokenness and pain in the world, from health struggles to concerns about our finances, many of us bring fears and […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, May 5, 2022

Lord, where do we begin?   We want to talk about the dashing of hopes, the failure of inspiration, the death of expectation. Afghanistan has fallen out of our consciousness as Ukraine falls into our attention, and now there is what’s happening in Iraq, as army and separatists clash and thousands flee. Monoculture (rubber trees) has […]

World News this Week in Prayer — Thursday, April 28, 2022

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. ”  —Prayer of Saint Francis Resurrecting Christ, you turned the world upside down and […]

World News this Week in Prayer – Thursday, April 21, 2022

Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.” John 20:28, 29 Eternal God, three in one and one in three; We give thanks for the countless faithful believers who, down […]

World News This Week in Prayer- Thursday, March 24, 2022

God you are light. Your light reflects within us and shines forth as we connect with one another in your Love moving through us, shining forth. All around the world we hear children in all languages sing of this light… This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine, let it shine, let it […]

World News This Week in Prayer- Thursday, March 17, 2022

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.  Psalm 73:26 Heavenly God, We fail constantly.  Our very bodies fail as they are so fragile.  How often have we wondered what to do, and choose the wrong action, words, or tone we take in everything […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, January 13, 2022

As the scheduled writer for this week, I, like so many others, am finding life in its beauty and complexity challenging, dispiriting, frustrating, with more questions than answers and often don’t want to hear what I think God is trying to say to me as the way forward: more of the same old, same old…? […]