OFFERING THE SOIL OF OUR SOULS TO GOD - FITZROY PRAYER 12.7.2020
12/07/2020
This is my prayer in Fitzroy on July 12th 2020. I had just preached on Jesus story of the sower and the seed and attempted to sow "where you treasure is your heart will be also" into the soil of our souls (watch the service HERE).
GOD
We live in vulnerable times
Fragile times
We have been broken by the Coronavirus Pandemic
We have grieved
We have been anxious about family
We have worried about our jobs
We have been found confinement harrowing
We have been under pressure mentally
Lord, the opening back up is testing us too
We are anxious about second spikes
We are wary of mixing in public
And we are almost angry at those who are not wary
We are fearful that a return of the virus will have more devastating economic effect than the first
We are concerned at the speed of the opening.
Lord we are in vulnerable times
We are thankful Lord that the vulnerability
Has made us more open to you
We have prayed more Lord
We have sought to trust more
We have read your Bible more in keeping with its context
Lord you have made us ponder our world
You have forced us to rethink our lives
You have given us an unexpected space
To reflect on how we are living
You have scattered the word of your wisdom across our souls to teach us, rebuke us, correct us and training us in righteousness.
Lord we offer the soil of our souls
May it not be hard
May it not be shallow
May it not choke the light with worry and wealth
May we work its fertility.
Lord we offer ourselves
By your spirit search us in these opening up days
That we might ask with total honesty
In what we rush and clammer for immediately
Where our treasure is
Because there you tell us
Is our heart.
So Lord, we ask that you would collide and caress
Your word and these pandemic days
That the seed of your word
Would overcome the thorns of our world
To germinate
And grow
And harvest
In our lives
And therefore in the lives of those around us
In Jesus name we pray
Amen
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