Today is the National Day of Prayer. It is another opportunity to drop our heads, sink to our knees, clasp our hands together and talk to the One who knows the words on our tongue before they arrive yet inclines His ear to hear them all (Psalm 139.4). We pause to talk to the One who can wipe away our tears and yet collects them (Psalm 56.8), the God who is all- powerful and yet tender toward us.

We are reminded that refuge is found only in the name of our God and that You have given Your Son, Jesus, the name that is above all others.  And it is the name of Christ that I submit my morning prayer:

Dear God,

Remove from me what is unclean

Let not my eyes see what is impure

Take away the sin fashioned by my hands

Your presence to ensure

 

Stop the sound of violence

Plug my ears to the voice of bloodshed

The screams of anguish and of anger

You are the God of the living not the dead[1]

 

Don’t let the enemy encircle me

Don’t allow what is dark to enclose

Shine Your light all around me

My steps You dispose

 

I pray Your Spirit envelope me,

Your Word contain me,

Your arms surround me

Your will sustain me.

 

Amen.

 

 

 

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