Our Father in heaven, holy is your name. We pray, your kingdom come, your will
be done, here on earth as it is in heaven. Give us our bread today. Help us who are in suffering and pain and sorrow.
Save us from the rubble of this destruction and deliver us. Heal us. Give us faith. You are our refuge. Give us comfort in our sorrow, yet open our eyes to respond
to your chastening hand with repentance and returning to you, the one true God. Provide mommies and daddies for
the children who have lost theirs. You are a father to the fatherless and a husband to the widow. What was meant
for evil, turn it for good.
God, forgive us our trespasses. Forgive us for violating
and casting aside your law, for turning against you, for seeking other gods, for rebelling against you, for taking
your name in vain. Forgive us for our pride and arrogance, for "Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination
to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished" (Prv 16:5), but "the LORD is near
to those who are of a broken heart; and saves such as be of a contrite spirit." (Ps 34:18). Forgive us for
our violence, and immorality, and for the harm, pain, and sorrow we have caused to other nations and peoples unjustly.
Grant us your grace to forgive those who have trespassed
against us, and to love our neighbors of all races, to recognize the true enemy of our souls who has motivated
men to such evil; Lest a spirit of blind hatred overtake us and the world be plunged into the terrible destruction
you warned us was coming. (Mat 24)
Cause us to humble ourselves before you, for pride goeth
before the fall, and cause us to trust not in our strength (for we have no strength but in You), but rather in
your great power and might, for you alone are our Fortress, our Rock, and our Deliverer. Grant that we would act
not with vengeance (for "vengeance is mine saith the Lord") but with justice and righteousness, remembering
that mercy triumphs over judgment.
Lead us not into temptation. We call on the Most High God,
the God of Israel, of all the nations, Creator of heaven and earth. Bless us, indeed, and enlarge our borders,
that your hand would be with us. Deliver us from evil. Keep us from doing evil, from inundating the world with
our perversion and immorality, and that we would not cause sorrow, suffering, and pain to other people unjustly.
Grant us repentance for our sins. Give us faith for salvation
and deliverance; To fight the fight of faith, and lay hold of eternal life. Let us go out, crucified and raised
with Christ, his life in us, that we would live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved us, and gave himself
for us. In his sacrifice for Jew, Arab, Gentile, all the peoples of the earth; in his name, the name that is above
every name, to which every knee shall bow, there is victory.
"Yours, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and
the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is yours; yours is
the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honour come from you, and you reign
over all; and in your hand is power and might; and in your hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto
all. Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name." (1 Chron. 29:11-13)
We pray for our president and our leaders whom you have
raised up for us. Grant them grace, wisdom, and righteous judgment. Give them understanding hearts to know your
ways, and to lead us as they follow you, in war and in peace, that we may live in peace.
Yours is the kingdom. All the nations and the rulers of
nations are in your hands. You turn their hearts whichever way you will. Magnify your great name over all the nations.
Grant that we and all nations and people who have called by faith on the name of the God of Israel, and Jesus Christ
our Savior, our Messiah, our Deliverer, would be found faithful in the storm and the fiery trial. God, bless America!
Your kingdom
come, your
will be done, on earth as in heaven. For yours is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.
ke 9/11/2001 (Rev. 9/26)
See also Psalm 20,
Psalm 37, Psalm 44, Matthew 24.ïNew
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