Tag: labor

Heal, Provide, and Strengthen Our Families

Lord Jesus, healer and Savior, 
bring health and unity 
to your people in their families. 
Provide for all their needs with your abundance. 
Bring health and strength 
to your people in their weakness. 
Bring growth in wisdom,  
strength in faith and spirit, 
and growth and strength in body 
to children everywhere. 
Watch over the hearts 
of the weary and burdened, 
and direct them to cast their cares on you, 
that they respond to life’s troubles 
with patient endurance, 
and put away anxiety and anger. 
Give your people useful work that serves the good of others,
and provide for all our needs. 
Lift and bind your people everywhere 
in the bonds of holy love and prayer. 
Uplift, strengthen, and heal us all; 
you live and reign, now and forever. 
Amen. 

Source: Paul C. Stratman, August 4, 2024, from an online request.

Watch Over All Your People

Gracious God and Father,
watch over all your people,
those who struggle with doubts,
those who struggle with the labors of life,
those who sometimes struggle as they seek you.
Calm our hearts with your Word,
and with your dear Son’s promise,
“I will give you rest.”
Pour out your abundant blessings on us,
give us the assurance of your love in Jesus Christ.
Give us confidence as we face the challenges ahead.
Give us health of body and spirit,
and blessings in all things;
through your Son who gave himself for us
so that we could be his,
Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

Source: Paul C. Stratman, April 27, 2024, from an online request.

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