Inspiring prayers & quotes

The BibleLands Prayer

Heavenly Father,

We thank you for your blessings

on the work of BibleLands

and its Overseas Partners,

as they have shared the compassion of Christ

with those in need - regardless of their faith or nationality.

We pray that you will renew their vision,

give them your guidance and strength,

and bless them and all those that they serve.

Help them to continue to show Christian love in action,

as they tend, treat and teach those in their care,

that those in need will be encouraged and enabled,

and Your Name be glorified.

Amen

Keep us from Pettiness by Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots

Keep us, O God, from pettiness; let us be large in thought, in word, in deed.

Let us be done with faultfinding and leave off self-seeking.

May we put away all pretenses and meet each other, face to face, without self-pity and without prejudice.

May we never be hasty in judgment and always generous.

Let us take time for all things; make us to grow calm, serene, gentle.

Teach us to put in action our better impulses - straightforward and unafraid.

Grant that we may realize it is the little things of life that create difficulties; that in the big things of life we are as one.

Oh, Lord, let us not forget to be kind.
Amen

Prayer For Wartime by Brother David Steindl-Rast

You, the one

From whom on different paths

All of us have come.

To whom on different paths

All of us are going.

Make strong in our hearts what unites us;

Build bridges across all that divides us;

United make us rejoice in our diversity.

At one in our witness to your peace,

A rainbow of your glory.

Amen

Vancouver Assembly of the World Council of Churches

For peace in your country

For the victims of violence everywhere

For those struggling for peace and justice

For churches in conflict situations

For a world without war and violence

Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth

Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust

Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace

Let peace fill our beings, our world and our universe.

Amen

John Wesley: "God does nothing but by prayer and everything with it."

Sidlow Baxter: "Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers."

Paul E. Billheimer: "Satan does not care how many people read about prayer if only he can keep them from praying."

Martin Luther: "Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness."

C.H. Spurgeon: "Prayer can never be in excess."

Thank you for standing with us and our overseas partners in prayer!

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