Here’s a
prayer of intercession from Bruce Prewer’s Home Page.
Prayers of the People
for two voices
God our motherly Father, our brotherly Saviour, our sisterly
Spirit-Friend,
we ask that in our prayers and in the ordinary
affairs of each day,
we may exhibit your generous spirit to other
people.
We pray for the millions of homeless people
whom we will never meet but whose predicament we
see on the TV.
Please bless those humanitarian agencies who
attempt to care for them,
and all who give generously to support their
work.
We pray for unwanted or destitute people in our
own country,
from Darwin to Port Arthur and Port Headland to
Byron Bay.
Please give both wisdom and a generous spirit to
Federal and State Governments,
and strengthen the welfare ministry of churches.
We pray for any among us here today, who with
dignity and courage
are secretly enduring misfortunes or ongoing
worries.
Please give your peace and healing to them, and
keep us sensitive,
that we may recognise a cry for help if it comes
our way
and respond generously.
We pray for neighbours or workmates,
and for those familiar but nameless faces we
notice each day
in train or bus, elevator, bank or supermarket.
Please bless each according to their need,
and without any prying or self importance on our
part,
make us ready to help in the hour of need.
We pray for all the bewildered, lost souls;
for young folk hitting out,
puzzled adults who find that neither career nor
family
satisfy
their deepest need,
sour elderly folk who are jealous of the faith
and happiness of others.
Please gather the lost into your loving arms,
and help each of us to treat awkward, prickly
people
with the generous respect that you have for
each.
Loving Saviour, seeking the lost and the
unlovely,
we worship you.
Caring Spirit, enabling the weak and the meek,
we worship you.
Holy God, generous beyond all calculation,
we worship you.
Amen!
