National Day of Prayer May 2, 2024

Dear God, today and everyday I pray for my children.  Keep them safe and healthy.  Please God help them make wise decisions and always do their best.  I pray that you avenge them God from those that have brought them harm and anguish.  You blessed me with children and entrusted me with their lives.  Remind them you are still with them as they continue on their own path in life.  I am thankful.

God I pray for my safety, my health and wisdom.  Help me to to make wise decisions.  Thank you God for everything you have given me and my life.  What a precious gift.  God I pray that you avenge me from my enemies and those that have brought me harm.  Avenge me God, please God.  I thank you for my parents, and my sisters.  Please give them comfort and allow them to feel your presence everyday.  I pray for safety.

I thank you for my cat.  He has been such a comfort during the loneliness of the past few years.  You made so many creatures for our pleasure and enjoyment.  His affection has been a blessing to me.  Thank you for a living thing that is glad to see me when I get home.  I pray for love in our world.

God, help me please forgive the trespassing against me, as you have forgiven me of my trespasses.  I am hurting, and exhausted from being a victim.  God I loathe being a victim of what I cannot control.  Take that load from me.  It's too much for me to carry and move forward. The lies, the crimes, the stealing, terrorizing, the stalking and ransomware.  It has hurt me for so long and so deeply.  Help me forgive and be free of the past.  I pray for mercy.

God help our government make wise decisions for everyone.  God please move us from socialism and towards the democracy and values we were founded on.  Keep our government safe.  I believe everyone appointed is for a reason.  God I pray for those that teach our children.  Speak to their hearts and keep them safe from a society that has taken them for granted.  Sometimes they are the people our children see more out of the day than anyone else.  I pray for honesty.

God, bless our lawyers.  Help them fight worthy causes.  God help them with the awful things they have to see and defend.  Remind them that you are with them in court, and in their lives even when they don't know it   I pray for justice.

I pray for everyone and everything to have you in the center of our lives.  My gratitude is endless.  Please be with the sick, the ailing and aging, the handicap, the oppressed and depressed.  Envelope us in your love.  God please I pray to see more of you in myself and others in the world around me.  God I pray that we are never blind to your greatness and your miracles all around us.  I pray for comfort.

God I pray for every healthcare worker in the world.  Give them the wisdom to heal and comfort those in need.  God I pray you comfort them too, that they may be able to care for themselves and their families as well.  Let us never be closed by our own pains to not recognize those needs in others.  I pray for healing.

Amen

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