Prayers for the Ministry of RUF at U of I ...

Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.

Lord Jesus, you tell us that the world will know we are your disciples by our love for our fellow brothers and sisters. We lament and grieve the unnecessary divisions that exist in the world-wide church. We acknowledge and lament the way partisan politics, pride, fear, and self-interest have contributed to a lack of love in the body of Christ. We humbly ask, teach us Lord Jesus, to love one another as you have loved us. Give us patience, humility, as well as the strength and desire to bear with one another for the sake of love and that we might glorify you. We pause now to confess our the ways we have failed to love and to ask for your help.

Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.

Gracious Father, we thank you for the work you have given us to do in this world. Like the psalmist we are somewhat overwhelmed that you would call us to steward your creation, to rule and govern under you our great king, and to cultivate this world with creativity in ways that lead others to flourish. We pray for help to do all our work well and unto your glory. We pray our work of creating, protecting, nurturing, instructing, ordering, restoring and caring. We pray we would reflect and participate in your good rule in the way we treat others made in your image, and the way we treat this world that you made. We pray that you would help us to connect the dots between our labors and your purposes in this world that our work would be yet another place to live out the reign of Jesus in our lives. We pause now to intercede for ourselves and one another for these matters.

Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.

And with churches throughout the world we pray together, as your Son taught us to pray, saying:

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.

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