This prayer was written by our intercultural team member Mel who lives and serves in the Silk Road Area. It responds to the More Like Jesus theme of ‘Doing the works of Jesus’.
Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank you for the example of Jesus, who brings healing and restoration through serving others with love, compassion and sacrifice. We ask that you would fill our hearts with the same commitment to sacrificially loving and showing compassion to all the people you have placed in our communities.
Give us boldness and courage to speak the truth of your word with wisdom. May our words and actions reflect your truth and love, bringing hope and healing to those around us. We thank you for the unique skills, passions and interests you have given each of us and we ask that we may use these to bring glory to your name.
Lord, we thank you that you are the source of all compassion, wisdom, power and love. We pray that we would find time in our busy lives to regularly and intentionally draw near to you, as Jesus did, and that our bodies and souls would be renewed, refreshed and refilled with your Holy Spirit.
We pray that your spirit would empower us to live out our faith boldly, sharing the Good News of your Kingdom with all we encounter in word and deed. We ask that you would empower us through your Spirit to do the works of Jesus, in showing compassion and love to all people and speaking the hope of Jesus in the communities around us.
In the powerful name of Jesus, we pray.
Amen.
