Praying on Earth Day 2013
We pray for orphans, widows and the peoples of the world who are facing shortages of energy, food,
water, clean air, shelter, and medicine that you would provide for them in their needs.
We pray for the countries of Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Tuvalu, Kiribati, the Philippines, the
Maldives, the Carterets, and other island and coastal nations who face the prospects of needing to move in response to rising sea levels.
We pray for relief from prolonged drought and unpredictable rain fall in countries like Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda, Mali, Kenya, Zambia, and other African nations that you would provide them with adaptive resources to ensure their resiliency so that they can dwell in the land in safety.
We pray for countries that face extreme energy poverty that you would provide leadership, and empower rural communities to have life and light.
We pray for those experiencing global warming, climate change and severe weather in this and every land that the developed industrial peoples of the earth might be awakened to reduce rampant consumption and toxic emissions, that those facing climate calamities might be delivered and sustained.
We pray for church leaders and the body of Christ in every land, that your Holy Spirit would move the hearts of your people toward lifestyles of compassion, conservation, and deeds of mercy.
We pray for our own hearts, that you might trouble and instruct us in ways to rightly order our lives and priorities to be unfettered witnesses to the life and gospel of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.
Amen.
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