World in Prayer

Sharing in God’s loving compassion for all

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, October 6, 2022

Elohim, I AM, Jehovah, your names are numerous, our understanding of you, limited. When the horror of humanity confounds us, we place our hope in the mystery of your mercy. We cling to noble acts witnessed in the context of war; healing acts worked in the context of brokenness; justice that breaks through in an […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, September 8, 2022

Holy One, there is a song haunting me lately. An evocative melody. A single soprano invokes, “Oh let all who thirst, let them come… to the water.” The first time I heard it, I wept. And lately I hear it often. Unsummoned, it echoes within my soul; a lament in layers of drought. Source of […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, September 1, 2022

As God’s beloved children, let us pray that Divine Light shine on the nations, the earth, and all those in need. For your beloved in war torn areas around the globe, and for areas like Ukraine and Palestine, where foreign occupiers are forcefully controlling villages and territories, we pray for peaceful paths toward justice; For […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, August 25, 2022

Creator God, Guided by the words of your servant German pastor Karl Barth, “Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible,” we beseech you for the protection of members of our world community: For a universal water supply that is free of PFAS, forever chemicals.  Guide the […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, August 18, 2022

Holy One, In these times, with the world news heavily upon us, we reflect upon words from 2 Timothy: “For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.”   (New Living Translation) Ten years ago, speaking in New York (U.S.), Indian-born British-American novelist Salman Rushdie said that […]

World News this Week in Prayer – Thursday, 4 August 2022

Writer’s note:  I am one of half dozen members of our small World in Prayer Team who needed a break. But then I read last week’s posting and realised I could not be party to this important ministry faltering – albeit temporarily. I find myself with nothing, yet also too much, to pray for – […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, July 7, 2022

Gracious and loving God, there is not a moment that we do not belong to you. You claim us as your beloved from beginning to end. Reassured and emboldened by this good news, we uplift our petitions and prayers to you this day, knowing nothing separates us from you and your love for us. God […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, June 30, 2022

Body Prayer Stand with your feet rooted into the earth. Bring your hands together in a prayer position at your heart. Bow bending at your waist.      A bow of reverence, of gratitude, of praise, of seeing. From the bow take your arms wide open, hands open like to receive another in a hug. […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, June 9, 2022

Eternal God. . . Love’s trinity, self perfect, self sustaining; Love which commands, enables and obeys. . . We praise and thank you that you love and care for all people. In your love enable us to hear what you say and obey your command to love one another. In love of one another we […]