A Prayer By
The Nation
For
The Nation
In an Hour
of Unprecedented Sorrow
Sovereign
of the Ages - Lord of the Nations - God of Our Fathers
- Source of
all Comfort and all Hope -
- YOU
HAVE SPOKEN TO US IN PRECIOUS PROMISES:
- that Your
plans stand firm forever, so that any nation
is blessed
whose God is the Lord.
- Psalm 33
- that You
are our Shepherd, delivering us from all evil
even in the
valley of the shadow of death. - Psalm 23
- that through
the resurrection of Your Son, death itself
is swallowed
up in victory.
- 1 Corinthians
15
-
YOU HAVE ALSO
SHOWN US THROUGHOUT THE PAST-
- that Your
mighty arm can bring justice to nations
who put their
hope in You. - Isaiah 51
- that
You know how to comfort those who mourn,
bestow beauty
for ashes, and provide
garments of
praise for a spirit of despair. - Isaiah 61
- that You
will not disregard our cause, but give strength to the weary
until we soar
again on wings like eagles. - Isaiah 40
YOU COMFORT
US EVEN NOW BY THE ONE WHO SAID:
- 'I am the
Resurrection and the Life so that whoever
believes in
Me will never die.' -John 11
- 'Others come
to steal, kill and destroy; but I have come
to give you
the fullness of life.' -John 1 0
- 'Though in
the world you will have trouble,
in me you
can have peace for I have
overcome the
world.' -John 16
THEREFORE,
TOGETHER AS "ONE NATION UNDER GOD,"
the God in
Whom we trust,
We lift up
one voice to You
across the
land, asking in an hour of unprecedented sorrow:
Let your just
ways prevail in all the earth;
Cause all
your plans to succeed
Strengthen
those whose grieving hearts cry out to You
Shepherd us
through this valley;
Give fresh
strength to Your people
In the
place of destruction, pour out
the full extent
of Jesus'life
In the place
of confusion and fear,
be to us a
wonderful, mighty Prince of Peace
In the place
of mourning and despair,
cover us with
comfort and reassurance
In the midst
of our great troubles,
give us Christ's
victory over all the terrors of Hell
As never before,
awaken and sustain us
as a nation
with the triumphant hope we have in
You
and in You alone.
Across America,
with a spirit of urgency,
we pray in
confidence that ?You who spared not
Your own Son
but gave Him up freely for us all?
not fail to
hear and answer us.
In the Name
of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
AMEN