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Prayer for September 2024

Dear Lord,

We ask for your strength and mercy at a time when we have witnessed yet again the death and the suffering of innocent children.

Young girls of primary school age attending a dance class, their teacher and a gentleman who ran to help were brutally stabbed and three small children have since died from their wounds.  Lord be with the families of the deceased as they face such terrible grief, we pray for those who are still very critical and ask for their healing.  We pray for all the community of Southport who are in complete shock and who have rallied around those  who have been personally affected.

We ask for your comfort and strength for everyone who bravely stepped forward to help and we thank you especially for the bravery of the dance teacher and those who stepped in to try and protect the children. We thank you also for all the emergency teams who came to their aid,  the policemen and the paramedics ,  sadly they meet atrocities like this quite often and the memory of it all stays with them just as much as it does with the civilians who witness it. Give them the strength to cope . 

God asks us to forgive everyone Lord but when we hear of such atrocities we find it very difficult to forgive someone who can perpetrate such evil.  We pray for the family of the perpetrator whose sense of disbelief must be tearing them apart, they have lived with their son’s mental                         illness never imagining something as horrific could happen.  How can they bear the                               truth of knowing what he has done.

Lord , we also find it so very difficult to understand the mindless thugs who gathered                                    in that same community, on the day of the stabbings, while the community were                                        holding a vigil, and attacked a local mosque then turned on the  police.  The same                                         policemen who attended and helped the children and parents at the dance school.

 Many of the policemen were injured by those thugs and we ask for their healing.  We also pray that justice prevail and that those who flung the missiles and set fire to vehicles will be identified and punished by the law.

We pray Lord for our friends as the events in Southport will have brought back memories of the death of young children near to us and who died in similar circumstances.

We would ask Lord that children attending such events, or clubs and even their schools be safe.  We pray that all who seek to do harm to others , be touched by you and learn to hold love in their hearts and not evil.

We pray for peace Lord,  we pray that all senseless violence ceases, we pray that man’s inhumanity to man stops and that men will learn to  live together in love and harmony.

Forgive us Lord that when things like this happen we forget about all the good that is done.  In fact amidst all that atrocity, there  was bravery and kindness. Help us Lord to hold onto that.  May we through the power of prayer,  through Your power,  witness a reduction in evil and the increase in the propensity for good.

We ask again  Lord that all Your love, healing and comfort be with everyone  in Southport at this time and be with those who have suffered in any way either here in Britain or Nationwide under similar circumstances.

We ask this in the name of Your Son,  our Saviour,  Jesus Christ.

 

Amen

 

 

Maybe we should learn from our children – many who have suffered greatly.

 Be Childlike –

Children smile 400 times a day on average …. Adults 15 times.                                                                                      Children laugh 150 times a day  …. Adults 6 times.

Children play 4 – 6 hours a day  … adults only 20 minutes.

What has happened? 

 Ecclesiastes 12   1-7

Fulfilment
Apple blossom bursting wide now beautify the tree,
And make a Springtime picture ,  that is beautiful to see.
Oh, fragrant lovely blossoms, you’ll make a bright bouquet
If I but break your branches from the apple tree today
But if I break your branches and make your beauty mine
You’ll bear no fruit in season when severed from the vine ..
And when we cut ourselves away from guidance that’s divine
Our lives will be as fruitless as the branch without the vine …
For as the flowering branches depend upon the tree ,
To nourish and fulfil them , till they reach futurity,
We too must be dependent on our Father up above,
For we are but the branches and He’s the Tree of Love.

 Helen Steiner Rice

Lord God,We ask you to hold the people of Ukraine deep in your heart.
Protect them, we pray;
from violence, from political gamesmanship,
from being used and abused.

Give, we pray, the nations of the world the courage
and the wisdom to stand up for justice
and the courage too, to dare to care―generously.

Lord, in your mercy, take from us all the tendencies in us
that seek to lord it over others:
take from us those traits that see us pursuing our own needs and wants before those of others.

Teach us how to live in love and dignity and respect―following your example.
In your name and for your sake,
Amen

―Issued by Lord Wallace, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and the Very Rev. Dr. Susan Brown, convener of the Faith Impact Forum, Church of Scotland.

God’s blessings to each and every one of you. 

Until we can meet together again, stay safe.

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2nd Thursday every month at 2pm.
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