World in Prayer

Sharing in God’s loving compassion for all

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, November 17, 2016

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7 Beloved God, we see evidence throughout the world of how hard it is for some neighbors to love one another. We find continued difficulty in seeing You in each other. We […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, November 10, 2016

What’s God going to say to my questions? I’m braced for the worst. I’ll climb to the lookout tower and scan the horizon. I’ll wait to see what God says, how he’ll answer my complaint. And then God answered: “Write this. Write what you see. Write it out in big block letters so that it […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, November 3, 2016

And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.”  Romans 8:38-39, NLT Recognizing the effects of fear and anxiety in our lives, we […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016

On Sunday after Sunday in our worship we sing:             Worthy is Christ, the Lamb who was slain,             Whose blood set us free to be people of God.             Power and riches, wisdom and strength,             And honor and blessing and glory are his.  And with these words in mind this day, we pray […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016

Once again, Lord, the voice of the prophets remains strikingly relevant through the centuries.  Joel 2:24-25a reminds us that: The threshing floors shall be full of grain, the vats shall overflow with wine and oil. I will repay you for the years that the swarming locust has eaten.  As we pray for people who are […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016

Pray without ceasing…Becoming more infused with the nature and Spirit of God as we pray… Taking on the attributes of God as we become one with him beyond our earthly limits of time and space… Lord as Jacob (Israel) struggled and demanded a blessing from his opponent at Peniel, may we persist and demand your gifts […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, October 6, 2016

At the time of the Mexican war, often viewed as a practice war for the United States shortly before the American Civil War, the poet James Russell Lowell penned lines that still speak to us: Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the […]

World News This Week in Prayer- Thursday, September 22, 2016

“The Bible says little about the temperature of hell nor the furniture of heaven”. This quote from the great German theologian Reinhold Niebuhr fits in with the story of the rich man and Lazarus where we are made aware of the dangers of being mean with our money and uncharitable to others. This is echoed […]