Our Heavenly Father, we thank you for Jesus Christ. Jesus rules in heaven over the whole earth, and he intercedes for us now. Thank you for showing us your favour. Thank you for hearing us on account of Jesus. You are Righteous and Holy, and though we are sinful and ungrateful you are merciful to us. You have saved us from sin, death and wrath, and have made us a part of your people. For this we are grateful.
We ask that your Kingdom would spread over the whole world. There are many who have never heard the good news of Jesus life, death and resurrection, but who would believe were they to hear. Please send missonaries to these people, whether they be near or far. In our own land there are many who know of you right well, and hate you. Please send them your Spirit, and turn them to Christ. Many of the elites in our land hate you. These men are found in our universities, governments and media. Please save them, not merely for the sake of our comfort, but for their own good. You have taught us to pray for those who persecute us and slander us, and we do so now. Cause them to repent and make them alive in Christ.
This week was our Dominion Day celebration. Thank you for the peace and prosperity we enjoy in our land. Please protect us from bad governments, and the tyranny of the well-intentioned public busy-bodies. Looking around we see very much immorality and wickedness, and it makes us heartsick. It is not good for a people to throw your blessings away on evil carousing. Please turn the hearts of all men in Canada to you.
Every sin the world celebrates are also in our own Churches. There are fornications, adultery, divorce, pornography, abortions, and praise of the same. We also indulge anger, envy, malice, slander, gossip and all manner of foul speech. We are sharp in our dealings, and sharp in our speech. On account of all this, many of the slanders the unbelivers level at your Church stick. We are thouroughly rotton. Please forgive us! Make us repent, and make us clean!
Family feuds are always more bitter than foreign wars. Please help us to forgive our closer bothers quickly. Our desire is to live in close community together, loving each other as you love us. Too often we scrap and fight each other. Please forgive us, and turn our hearts from loving our own selves, and make us love each other. Help us to be quick to forgive. We want to be that city on a hill, an undisgised beacon of your love and righteousness. We want the world to see us and marvel because they see you. Please make it so.
Thank you for the many good works you give us to do. You have given work so that we may eat, and we thank you for our abundance. Thank you for homes, food, clothing, and all other things we need. Even though the economy is uncertain, you have well cared for us. We ask that you would continue to provide for our needs. Please also give more work to the underemployed among us. Worry is always a present temptation in these times. Keep us safe from death and injury as we labour. We ask that you would help us, both to trust you, and to have that which we need. Also cause us to be grateful to you, as all good things come from you.
You are the great physician. Please heal those who are sick with cronic pain . Please heal Krysia and Mrs. Donovan in Ft St John. Please be with Christine and the baby in her womb, and give them both good health.
Thank you for Mrs. Gallant, and please give her good comfort.
We thank you for all the ladies who are bearing children now. Please keep mothers and children safe through delivery. Thank you for the abundance of children you have given to us. Please grow our children up into fully Christian men and women. Be their strength and their wisdom, do not let them stray from you. Supply what is lacking in our instruction of our children, so that they may be more faithful than we. Do great things by them for your names’ sake, we pray.
We pray for our elders and Pastor, that you would preserve them from sin, and give them wisdom to rule well. Make us an easy people to govern and lead. Preseve you pulpit here from error so that we hear your word untarnished. Also, make us doers of your Word, and not merely hearers.
Please be our help and comfort. We call on you in faith, and in Jesus name. We pray together the prayer that He has taught us,
Our Father
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