Prayer of Intercession Example

Dear Father God,

It saddens our hearts to see the great suffering of your beloved children in the world. We bring to mind all those in our locality who find themselves in a hard place. We especially pray for those who suffer physically with illness or mentally with depression or anxiety. Lord, come breathe on these people by your Holy Spirit and bring great love, hope and joy through us your church. Help us to minister to others in the strength of your Spirit and to work in unity together. May we shine your glorious light into the darkness and remain steadfast and true to you.

Lord, it disturbs us when we see world leaders embracing division instead unity, pursuing wealth instead justice and concealing lies instead of speaking out the truth. We lift all those in significant leadership to you. Come guide their thoughts, cover their actions and renew their minds. Protect them from the influence of the realms of darkness and sweep away any corruption. We pray that you would lay out new paths of righteousness in troubled nations and lands. Father, it is disturbing to see the difference between rich and poor widening. We lift all those in poverty to you. Come bring miracles of provision, healing and restoration. Speak into our lives so that we might play our part in changing the world.

We ask all this in the wonderful name of Jesus.

Amen.

(prayer from www.lords-prayer-words.com)

But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!

Amos 5:24, (NIV)

Prayer for Healing

Lord Jesus, you are the master of life and death. Everything I have is yours, and I love you very deeply. Just one touch from you restores the sick, heals the broken, and transforms the darkness.
Only you can do this
Only you

So I ask that you would be with (name) right now
May they sense your presence
May they feel your power
May they know your love
May their body be overwhelmed
With light and truth
With healing and wellness

Just as it was in the beginning
As you first intended us to be
May they be restored

I ask for your healing on their body right now

Thank you Lord that you hear my prayer
That you have overcome the world
That you hold all of heaven and earth in your loving hands
And that you have given us the promise of eternity
In our hearts forever
Amen

(a sample modern prayer for healing from www.lords-prayer-words.com)
• click here for more prayers for physical and mental healing.

A Prayer for Justice

Lord, may justice flow like a river
Reaching barren lands and sun scorched deserts

Where people feel forgotten and hopeless
Let your water of life
Comfort them
Where children lie abandoned or abused
Let your water of life
Protect them
Where communities suffer at the hands of prejudice
Let your water of life
Shield them

Lord, we ask for a mighty downpour from Heaven
May your sons and daughters hear your voice
May we live as you lead us to live
Go as you bid us to go
Serve as you inspire us to serve
Give as you teach us to give
Until the earth is covered with the glory of God
As the waters cover the sea
Amen

(an example of a modern prayer for justice from www.lords-prayer-words.com. This can be prayed with a nation or people group in mind)

follow this link for two prayers for the poor and needy in society, including a petition which reflects on our response to the marginalized and vulnerable in our community.

A Prayer for the Poor and the Neglected

Almighty and most merciful God,
we remember before you all poor and neglected persons whom it would be easy for us to forget:
the homeless and the destitute,
the old and the sick,
and all who have none to care for them.
Help us to heal those who are broken in body or spirit,
and to turn their sorrow into joy.
Grant this, Father, for the love of your Son, who for our sake became poor,
Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

(Source: 1979 Book of Common Prayer, Protestant Episcopal Church in the USA)

Prayer for Peace

The prayer for peace is said daily across the world at twelve noon by people from many different religious beliefs and philosophical persuasions:-


(This simple prayer comes from the Vancover Assembly of the World Council of Churches. It's origins a thought to be from England circa 1981. In the early eighties, Mother Teresa of Calcutta popularised this prayer, and it subsequently became adopted by the Assembly of World Religions meeting in Russia. This event was timed to coincide with the second United Nations Special Session on Disarmament. By the end of the decade, the Berlin Wall had crumbled and the "Cold War", if not completely over, was certainly no longer the dark shadow across the world that it once was. However, with the turn of the millenium, and "9/11", the world was to face new challenges and new wars. Hence this prayer is as relevant today as it was when it was first prayed almost thirty years ago).

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

(Martin Luther, 1483-1546)