Here’s
a prayer of intercession for people who suffer.
It was written by Bruce Prewer.
Prayer for
Others
Our
God belongs to all people, and treasures each individual.
Let us pray for them.
Holy
Friend, Healer and Liberator, we lift up before you those people who are at
this very moment suffer from either accident, disease, their own folly, or the
cruelty of others.
Please
have mercy on our race, O God.
Forgive
our human iniquities and heal our many diseases.
At
this moment many fellow humans beings are crying out against the cruelty of
captivity: Hostages and
abducted children, prisoners of war and political detainees, and many
mistakenly convicted.
Please
have mercy on our race, O God.
Forgive
our human iniquities and heal our many diseases.
At
this moment many of our fellows are suffering physical and mental abuse: Battered wives and children, others
beaten up by robbers, tortured for information, verbally abused and denigrated,
left with untended wounds, threatened with the injury of loved ones, sexually molested or slowly killed.
Please
have mercy on our race, O God.
Forgive
our human iniquities and heal our many diseases.
At
this moment there are people who are traumatised by sudden injury: Victims of industry or the highways,
soldiers wounded in battle, civilians bombed or terrorised, those maimed by the
carelessness of others, and some who for personal thrills have taken big risks
and lost.
Please
have mercy on our race, O God.
Forgive
our human iniquities and heal our many diseases.
At
this moment there are thousands who are in terror or despair because of natural
disasters: Flood and house
fire, cyclone and earthquake, avalanche or bushfire, drought or lightning
strike, storm waves or volcanic eruption.
Please
have mercy on our race, O God.
Forgive
our human iniquities and heal our many diseases.
Holy
Friend, help your church to do whatever we can to lesson the multiple
sufferings of humanity. Encourage each of us to rest our own pain and grief in
your infinite mercy, and to not cease from righteous anger, prayer and
appropriate action while injustice and neglect exist anywhere on this planet.
Please
have mercy on our church, O God.
Through
Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen!
