8/9/2019 0 Comments Prayers of the People, P9CFrom sweat factories
and hot corporate fields, from the victims of sex trafficking rings and drug cartels, from dictatorships and censored media, from racist and gender-empowered societies, businesses, and homes, your people cry to you, Eternal One, and you listen. Embolden your church, Lord, to answer cries for justice for the voiceless, the powerless, and the fearful. From the darkest valleys of despair and grief, from loneliness and poverty, from disease and pain, from addiction and mental illness, from victims of abuse held as prisoners in their homes as well as those struggling to make a living wage, your people cry to you, Eternal One, and you listen. Dispatch your church, Lord, with compassion and kindness, to the voiceless, the powerless, and the fearful. From the bloodied interiors of department stores and nightclubs, of elementary schools and high schools and institutions of higher learning, of office buildings and warehouses, of movie theaters and shopping malls and places of worship, your people cry to you, Eternal One, and you listen. Inspire your church, Eternal One, with wisdom and discernment, to use their voices in places of power that violence is stopped in its tracks and peacemaking methods taught in every classroom, that the language of leaders becomes thoughtful and inclusive and that loving our neighbor becomes the law by which we live.
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