Here’s a
prayer of intercession from Rev. Iain Macdonald, on the Starters for Sunday
website.
Prayer of Intercession
(inspired by Deuteronomy 6:1-9, Mark
12:28-34)
Our prayer
today is for all who are victims of cruel laws and petty laws,
those
who’re subjected to prejudice
denied
opportunities, excluded, pushed to margins.
The Lord
our God is one:
We will love with all our heart, all
our soul, all our strength.
Our prayer
today is for all those who’re betrayed,
who don’t
know loyalty, who fear to trust, or to love,
and who
don’t realise that they’re already loved by you.
The Lord
our God is one:
We will love with all our heart, all
our soul, all our strength.
Our prayer
today is for the landless and homeless,
the refugee
and evicted,
those who
find themselves in foreign places and strange places.
The Lord
our God is one:
We will love with all our heart, all
our soul, all our strength.
Our prayer
today is for the overworked and the underpaid,
for those
in dangerous work and those in compassionate work,
for those
who long to work but are denied the opportunity
The Lord
our God is one:
We will love with all our heart, all
our soul, all our strength.
Our prayer
today is for the Church, for all the branches of the vine
including
this one we gather as part of, today:
body of
Christ, people of Christ,
for whom the
Lord our God is one:
We will love with all our heart, all
our soul, all our strength.
Our prayer
today is for the creation gifts,
this earth
in all its mighty wonder, yet tender fragility,
the gifts
of life and resources to treasure.
The Lord
our God is one:
We will love with all our heart, all
our soul, all our strength.
(Our prayer
today is for the gifts we give
that we
will give generously and thankfully
and that
we’ll use these gifts with wisdom and love.
The Lord
our God is one:
We will love with all our heart, all
our soul, all our strength.)
Our prayer
today is for those who lie close to our hearts
those whom
we worry about, those whom we miss,
those who
carry disproportionate burdens at this time …
(local intercessions)
The Lord
our God is one:
We will love with all our heart, all
our soul, all our strength.
The Lord
our God is one:
We will love with all our heart, all
our soul, all our strength.
The Lord
our God is one:
We will love with all our heart, all
our soul, all our strength.
~ written
by Rev. Iain Macdonald. Posted on the
Church of Scotland’s Starters for Sunday
website. http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/
