Help please: The Grange Care Home Ben is leading a service/reflection and sing on Monday 31st July at 10.30am and would love a singer/ or musician or two to join him…? This is the first time we have been welcomed in for a long time. Please pray for this.
Our benefice service next Sunday is a Songs of Praise service It is good to sing together. It cheers the soul to be thankful and be united in praise.
We are asked to pray
Prayers for this week
Thank you to Judith A for this week’s prayers.
Heavenly Father, you taught us through your son Jesus to bring all our fears and troubles to you and to pray for one another, so we come to you today with our requests, trusting in your love and goodness towards us. Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. Loving God, we pray for peace in the world. The war in Ukraine seems endless. Please bless those who would be peacemakers and give them the wisdom they need to deal with leaders who have a different world view from their own. Protect President Zelensky and his advisors and those Russians who want peace with Ukraine and hasten the day when the fighting and suffering will cease. We bring before you all the other areas of the world where there is unrest, particularly Israel and Palestine, Myanmar, Sudan and many more that we hear little about. We pray that you will restrain the forces of evil so that peace and love might prevail. Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. Merciful God, we pray for those who are suffering because of the current high temperatures in many parts of the world. We know that many people died last year because of the heat and many lost their homes as forests burned and the same is happening now. Please help us to learn the lessons of these disasters and better protect ourselves and others. Most of all, we pray for a greater sense of urgency as we witness all these signs of climate change. May all governments around the world make dealing with this urgent situation their top priority and help each one of us to do whatever we can to save our planet. Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. We give you thanks, heavenly King, for bringing Steve and Lindsey to our benefice last Sunday. It was so good to see them again and to hear how you have been guiding their work in Honduras. Please bless and refresh them over the summer so they can return to Honduras ready to continue their work there. We ask for your protection for them. May the projects they have started be successful and the young people they are helping keep away from the gangs. Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. Lord, we pray for the churches in our benefice, for Ben and the ministry team, for our parish administrator, our churchwardens and all those who help in various ways. Help us to discern the plans you have for these villages and our part in those plans. Thank you that we have a new musical director. We ask you to bless him as he prepares to take on his new role in September. Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. Loving Father, we bring before you all those in our community who are suffering hardship because of the increases in food prices and mortgage rates. Show us how we can help one another. Please give the government wisdom in dealing with the continuing threats of strike action. We pray for those we know who are sick and ask for your comfort and healing for them. We remember all those who have died recently and pray for their families and friends in their grief. Merciful Father, accept these prayers for the sake of your Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.