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Weekly Prayer

LORD of all,

We praise you with our souls; with our inmost beings we praise your holy name. We praise you, never forgetting all your benefits, how you forgive all our sins, heal all our diseases, redeem our lives from the pit, crown us with your love and compassion, and satisfy our desires with good things so that our youth is renewed. Your love for those who fear you is so great that you remove our transgressions, as far as the east is from the west. [Psalm 103: 1-5, 11-12.] We cry out to you with our mouths, lifting up high praises. You listened because we do not cherish iniquity. You truly listen, God, attending to our voices in prayer. Thank you for hearing and not rejecting our prayers or removing your steadfast love from us [Psalm 66: 17-20].

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You have blessed us with an ever-present way to communicate with you. It does not require an internet connection or cell service. You listen when our hearts call and cry out to you. Your eyes, LORD, are on the righteous, and your ears are open to our prayers. But your face is against those who do evil [1 Peter 3:12]. As believers, we have confidence that if we ask anything, according to your will, you hear us. And if we know you hear us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of you [1 John 5: 14-15].

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Jesus, as you prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane [Matthew 26: 39], “…not as I will, but as you will.” Your plans for this world will be accomplished. They cannot be thwarted. You said {Matthew 7: 21] that only those who do the will of your Father in heaven will enter the kingdom of heaven. You are a personal God. You are always present in believers, guiding and directing us to do your will. You are the LORD who answers us from your holy hill [Psalm 3: 4]. You give us relief from our distress, and mercifully hear our prayers [Psalm 4: 1]. May your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. In Jesus’ name, we pray. AMEN.

2025 National Prayer

 

God of hope, fill us with all joy and peace in believing, so that we will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

 

You have caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead; therefore, we hope in what we do not see.  This world is not our home or reality,

but the Lord is our Rock, our Truth, our certainty.

 

God of hope, we pour out our praise and are filled with Your powerful presence.

 

We pour out our repentance of sin and are filled with forgiveness and righteousness.

 

We pour out pain from the attacks of the enemy—anxiousness, fear, anger—and You

fill us with courage, assurance, and love.

 

We pour out our needs, the desires of our hearts, and are filled with Your Kingdom provision and purpose.

 

We pour out our hearts for our nation, for the people and places, relationships and responsibilities the Lord has established: the Church, Family, Education, Business, Military, Arts, Entertainment, Media, and Government. May all who live, serve, and steward in these be filled with Your purpose, wisdom, strength, and truth.

 

Let Your lovingkindness, O LORD, be upon us, as we have hoped in You.

 

In abounding hope, anchored by our hope in the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen!

 

Written by NDP Task Force President, Kathy Branzell

Thursday, May 1, 2025

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