Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.
Thank you, Father, that we can call you our Father who is always there to comfort us, encourage us, and lift us up when we fall. You are our wonderful Heavenly Dad, who does not condemn us, but helps us on the right path. We need your calm, peace filled reassurance during these enormously stressful times.
Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.
We humble ourselves, acknowledge You alone are God, and declare Your Will being done is more important than our will being done. Please let your will be that this storm of a global pandemic be shutdown immediately. Please bring peace on earth like it is in Heaven. Please bring healing and wholeness on earth, like it is in Heaven. Please bring justice and provision on earth like it is in Heaven. Please keep our family emotionally strong as the saints are in Heaven. Help us to align with You in every area of our life as those who are in Heaven are. We humbly acknowledge, we need You and we need You to do what we clearly cannot do.
Give us this day our daily bread.
Father, I thank you for everything You provide for us. Please allow me to have what I need today to eat, pay our bills, provide for our families, and to have the health we need to serve You and our families. Give us the wisdom and the strength to work to honor you and eyes to see how you provide for us.
And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors.
Father, please forgive me of my sins and all the ways I have not acknowledged my need of You in so many areas. Please forgive our nation for all the ways we have rejected You. Please forgive my unbelief, my community’s unbelief, and our nation’s unbelief.
I release all unforgiveness and bitterness toward any wrong anyone has ever done to me. I forgive them because I need Your forgiveness. Have mercy on me. Thank you for the blood of Jesus that was shed on the cross that I might be forgiven.
And do not lead us into temptation,
Father, there are sins that are so very easy for me to slip into. Please protect me from myself and my inclinations that would destroy me and devastate the relationships in my life. Protect me from self-will, mistreating others who need mercy, misusing my power, lust, greed, bitterness, unloving behavior, and all of the other ways where I dishonor You.
But deliver us from the evil one.
Father, the evil one is trying to destroy my life, my marriage, my children, my neighbors, and all of my relationships. Please protect me from the real unseen battle with the spiritual forces of darkness.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
Father, please give power to the weak and those who are serving us during this horrible time. Those whom the world would many times look down on or take for granted. Please grant them health and strength and encouragement.
Please grant our leaders wisdom. Help them work together in a spirit of harmony and leaving politics aside. Grant grace and mercy, for we all need it ourselves.
Father, You are all powerful, all knowing, all present Holy God. You could stop this global pandemic immediately. Please do. We acknowledge You are God Almighty and we are not. Have mercy on each of our families, our community, our state, our nation and our world.
In the Great and Powerful name of Jesus,
Amen.
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Pastor Bill Stevens
TheWellLoveland.com
Matthew 6:9-13 (NKJV)