World in Prayer

Sharing in God’s loving compassion for all

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 This Week in Prayer – Thursday, December 11, 2014

World in Prayer, Dec. 11th   Stir up your power, Lord Christ, and come. With your abundant grace and might, free us from the sin that would obstruct your mercy, that willingly we might bear your redeeming love to all the world.   We long for this stirring, O God, as we look around our […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014

Oh. Dear. God. No.  Not again. I thought I knew what I was going to write for tonight’s prayers. And then I turned on the computer, and read that in the United States, yet another unarmed Black man had been shot, dead, by a police officer. Jesus. I am speechless, beyond shock. Everything I could […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, October 9, 2014

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, July 24, 2014

So many treasures are hidden Lord: When we gave thanks along with the mother whose 2 sons were saved by the actions of a stranger, Reis Leming, in East Anglia in 1953, we were not to know that one would became a professor in Cambridge, England; the other a professor in MIT.   Lord, we […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, March 20th 2014

    Thursday, March 20th 2014 “If God is your co-pilot, swap seats!” (cartoon) “Purity does not come in separation from but in deeper penetration into the Universe … Bathe yourself in the ocean of matter; plunge into it where it is deepest and most violent; struggle in its currents and drink its water.  For […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, December 5, 2013

In intercession we, the intercessors, need to know something of the circumstances to kindle our concern.  God already knows it all, but it seems in the mystery of humanity where God has given us free will, he will not bypass this and treat us like robots. Our love and concern seem to open the way […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, October 31, 2013

Creator God, by your word and in your power, you have created us and our world. As we learn more of you, so we come to realize how powerful is your word.  In your company I’ll go where your love and footsteps show. Thus I’ll move and live and grow in you and you in me.  (John L. Bell […]