Category: Prayer items

Prayer for Ukraine

by Bellshill Central, posted in Prayer items

Prayer on the Occasion of the Third Anniversary of the War in Ukraine



Our Father in Heaven!
Our eyes are turned towards You and we lift up our hearts before You.
O God, for over one thousand days we have been praying daily to You, imploring You, putting our hope in You.
For over three horrible years we have received horrible news of the death of our compatriots, we have heard the noise of explosions and the wailing of the sirens.
Lord, every day the number of orphans and widows increases. Every day there are more people who experience the pain of loss of loved ones.
Our God, we see no end to this calamity, only You hold us.
For over one thousand days, Lord, we have stood and believed.
We thank You, for Your Spirit nourishes us.
We believe in Your righteousness, we place hope in Your mercy, we experience Your love in the midst of ruin and death.
But God, our strength is at its end.
We tell You of our pains, Father, though You know them all before we even tell You.
The sons and daughters of our nation leave us, they are dying in the fields of battle and under fire in our cities and towns..
We remain, Lord, remain with us.
We thank You for all those that support us, we thank You for our brothers and sisters in Christ and for the goodwill from those of other lands. Bless them!
Breath into us faith for the victory of love and truth.
Come, Lord Jesus!
Amen

PMP Prayer Request

by Bellshill Central, posted in Prayer items

As the Presbytery of Forth Valley and Clydesdale meet today, 27th April 2024, to discuss and accept the draft presbytery mission plan we invite you to pray with us.

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Romans 12:12

Prayer points:

  • Prayer for the Holy Spirit’s leading and guidance for the way ahead: asking for God’s mercy, forgiveness, strength, and hope for the future of our church. Praying for God’s kingdom to come.
  • Prayer for wisdom, vision, and energy; for the Mission Plan Action Group, and for our Presbytery Mission Plan. Asking for God’s help, courage, and strength to let go and lay down what must end and take hold of and lift up new ways of thinking and being church.
  • Prayer that God will reveal how we can connect with people beyond our existing congregations and share the good news of Jesus. Help us to find ways to enable those who have vision, gifts, and ideas to be encouraged to serve across the church.
  • Amen.
Presbytery Mission Planning

Today’s Lent Prayers – International Womans Day

by Bellshill Central, posted in Lent 2024, Prayer items

1. Thanking the Almighty for Women’s Development

Dear God,
We thank you for the unprecedented development in the field of education for girls and women all over the world. We would also like to give you thanks as very few women today face death or complications in childbirth.

It is indeed your blessings that we can find women of such great courage and initiative around us. Thanks to you and women’s efforts that they are not only emerging as entrepreneurs but also having a greater say over the way money are being utilized within their houses.

Lord of love and hope, we also know how many girls and women still have to face challenges in society today so that they get an equal say in their household decision-making or community.

We pray to you that life changes for all these women and they live with men, girls, and boys together as equals. Amen.

2. Prayer for Love and Faithfulness

Heavenly Father,
We celebrate your love and faithfulness. We thank you for the revolutionary transformation in the lives of millions of women, girls, and their families living in different parts of the planet. We pray on this special day that you shower your blessings on all the women on the earth. Please bring wisdom into every woman’s life through your words. Amen.

3. Prayer for Praise and Honour

Dear Lord.
Let us come together on this auspicious day to pray for all the women on this beautiful planet! Let each man understand the worth and value of the woman in their lives. May each woman realize how precious they are and how much joy they bring in the lives of their families. Bless them, dear God, so that they are always hale and hearty. Amen.

4. Prayer to Give Greater Strength to Oppressed Women

Heavenly Father,
We would like to pray for all those women who are constantly living in fear of their fathers, spouses, and all such forces, which control their lives. Please help them to be powered by self-realization through your faith and everlasting love. Amen.

5. Prayer for Positivity and Joy

O God,
We pray that you lighten the life of all women on the earth with freedom of expression, good health, independence, joy, and self-actualization. May you bring new hope to the lives of all oppressed women and give them a better life! Amen.

Week of Prayer – Day 7

by Bellshill Central, posted in Prayer items

Jesus said: “Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbour?” (Lk 10:36)

Lord, show us how to respond to our neighbour

Additional scripture passages
Philippians 2.1-5
Psalm 10:17-18

Commentary
At the end of the parable, Jesus asked the lawyer: who was the neighbour to the man who was robbed? The lawyer replied “the one who showed him mercy”. He does not say “the Samaritan” and we might imagine that the hostility between Samaritans and Jews
made that answer hard to admit.
We often discover our neighbours in the most unexpected people, even those whose very name or origins we find difficult to utter. In today’s world, where polarised politics often set those of different religious identities against one another, Jesus challenges us through this parable to see the importance of our vocation to transgress borders and
walls of separation.
Like the lawyer, we are challenged to reflect upon how we live our lives, not merely in terms of whether we do good or not, but whether, like the priest and the Levite, we are
neglecting to do mercy.

Reflection
Them,
those people,
people like that,
you know…
But you don’t know,
that’s the point,
because you don’t want to know.
They’re not important,
as long as they know their place.
Thanks be to you, dear God,
that your interfering mercy
has put us in our place
for those others.

Prayer
Holy God,
your Son Jesus Christ came among us
to show us the way of compassion.
Help us by your Spirit to follow his example,
to serve the needs of all your children,
and so witness together as
Christians to your ways of love and mercy.
We pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.