Unfathomable
God,
Your children all over the world in agony
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| Ntumfor Nico Halle |
Come before your throne of grace
With broken hearts bleeding profusely
Having observed and experienced
With disgust, shock, consternation and deceit
The conflicts/war that are ravaging lives
Of millions of your children.
All of these are as a result of greed,
hatred, power and all forms of manipulation.
Merciful
Lord,
We come before you and condemn in the hardest
of terms
The recent abduction of nearly 300 school
girls
In our neigbouring Northern Nigeria
By a group of religious fundamentalists.
Also, the recent kidnappings in the Northern
part of Cameroon
Of some men of God and foreigners
Creating an atmosphere of fear and
insecurity.
We also bring before you Lord
The flood, road accidents, disease, poverty
and unemployement
That are taking the lives of millions of your
children in Africa in particular
And the world in general.
Similarly, the level of moral decadence
Corruption, embezzlement, greed and wanton
waste of natural resources,
Creating more sufferings is brought before
your throne of grace
Is Africa not the richest of the Continent in
the world,
O Lord?
Why are your children O Lord
Wallowing in total abject poverty
While a few are immersed in arrogant opulence?
We call on you oh Lord to look down on us
with pity.
Gracious
Lord,
We learn of mass killings and maiming of your
children,
O which the world has given a deaf ear and
even fueling them.
Dear
Lord
We hear of peace, but peace is a scarce dream.
Merciful
Lord,
Your children in Central African Republic,
Sudan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Iraq, Palestine,
North Korea, Northern part of Nigeria, etc
are presently witnessing untold blood bath.
All
Merciful Father,
We have asked several questions without
answers:
Who is manufacturing arms and who is buying
them?
Are the arms manufactured to kill animals or
your children?
Our God of Justice and Peace,
We invite you to cause the destruction of
arms in the entire world;
To halt the proliferation of weapon of mass
destruction.
We pray for your love to reign in the world.
With the presence of your
Love, there would be Justice
With Justice, there would be Peace
With Peace, your children will live in
Harmony,
Loving one another and exploiting the huge
resources
You have blessed them with for their common
good
Eternal
God,
Teach world leaders to be humble and to fear
You
As this is the beginning of wisdom.
Teach them how to build
Peace, how to share Peace,
How to preach Peace, how to be reconciled
with one another,
How to forgive one another and how to live in
total harmony with one another.
Prince
of Peace
Come to our hearts.
You said in Your words in 2 Chronicles 7:14
That if your people who are called by your
name,
Seek your face, pray and confess their sins,
You will hear their prayers, forgive them and
heal their land
Lord, may You hear our prayers and heal the
world.
We pray that the Clergy, Laity and all your
children
Should get on their knees, come to you with
contrite hearts
And call upon You to heal the world.
Our Loving Father, we are equally sick to see
huge resources
That could be used for the good of your
children
Wasted in the purchase of arms and the
recruitment of armies in Africa.
Lord, please change this order.
Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.
Our
Apha and Omega
Teach your children to understand
That no one has the right to take away lives.
We know that You will bring everything under
control
As nothing can ever be above You.
If You are for us, who can be against us.
Lord, we are waiting for your
transformational grace
On us all in the world.
Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer
Amen
When News Breaks Out, We Break In. (The 2014 Bloggies Finalist)
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