We hope you will use these prayers to help focus your vision on the needs of the poor in this country. More prayers will be added over time so please return to this page.
Dear Lord
Help us to follow your example by looking out
for those who each day feel that they are marginalised,
who cannot find hope,
who believe that they have little to offer,
who are overcome by the challenges of poverty.
Help us to widen our horizons,
to make space for the stranger,
to watch out for those who feel invisible,
to give time to the outsider,
to talk to the person facing silence,
to restore justice and value.
Give us the courage to undertake this,
the determination to join with others in seeing grace
in every human face,
the faith to embrace the opportunity in your name.
Amen
Dear Lord
Give us strength and determination
to create more space in our lives for you.
By your Holy Spirit open our ears and touch our hearts
to understand more of your justice and mercy,
not only for ourselves but also for those who suffer
injustice in this world.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord
Amen
Thank you God for Jesus,
who came to seek and save the lost,
to set the captives free,
to feed the hungry.
to touch the sick with healing,
to love the unloved,
to speak out at injustice,
to give life where there was death.
Help us Lord, to be like your son Jesus.
To see as he sees and act on his word.
We ask for your help in these things.
Amen
Dear Lord
Help us not to overlook the hidden ones.
Those who are marginalized in our society,
those who we often choose to forget or ignore.
Lord let us not be indifferent to the cries of brokenness.
Help us to listen to their words and anxieties
and not to judge them harshly.
Soften our hearts to be tender to those in need.
We pray for your restoration in their lives.
Show your grace to them as you have to us.
In our Lords name
Amen
Heavenly Father
You who are faithful, true and righteous in all your ways,
Teach us to choose what is right and stand against
that which is evil.
Teach us to love justice and mercy and stand against
oppression and exploitation.
Show us where we are indifferent to these things.
Empower us with your spirit, so we may have courage
and determinations to do your will.
We trust you because you are Lord
and your love endures forever.
Amen
O God
You who came riding humbly on a donkey,
and transformed our understanding of true kingship.
Give us wisdom and sensitivity that we may be a
blessing in the presence of pain.
Teach us to walk humbly and to see others as you see them.
Forgive us all for the ways in which we distort your image
in others by breaking the bonds of peace.
We ask these things in your name.
Amen
Hallelujah,
You Lord have risen.
We celebrate and praise the God of life,
who wipes away the sins of the world.
We celebrate and praise the God of life,
who gives us hope for the future.
On this resurrection day,
Lord we pray for justice and mercy in our land.
On this resurrection day,
Lord we pray for help to be generous in our actions
and with our material possessions.
Lord we pray that you keep our hearts and minds attentive
to the needs of those who are poor.
Lord we pray let your kingdon come
and your will be done in our land.
Amen