Monday, 21 April 2014

Pray - Lord, show us how we can make a difference…



Lord God. You are great, you are merciful. We love you. We thank you for the grace you show us and the many blessings you give us. We come to you in humbleness. As we pray we ask you to show us what we can do, if not today then in the future. Lord we come to you now with these prayers...

Nearly half of the world’s population — more than 3 billion people — live on less than £2 a day. More than 1.3 billion live in extreme poverty (less than £1 a day). And yet we spend around £500 million on Easter eggs. Lord, show us how we can make a difference.

More than 1 billion people lack adequate access to clean drinking water and an estimated 400 million of these are children. And yet engineers can make oil travel in pipes across thousands of miles to us in the west. Lord, show us how we can make a difference.
Hunger is the number one cause of death in the world. 870 million people worldwide do not have enough food to eat. And yet we throw away 7milllion tonnes of food and drink from our homes in the UK alone every year. Lord, show us how we can make a difference.
19 million children worldwide remain unvaccinated. And yet there are diseases that could be wiped out from the earth if everyone had vaccines available. Lord show us how we can make a difference.
A quarter of all humans live without electricity — approximately 1.6 billion people. And yet billions of £’s are spent sending machines to Mars. Lord, show us how we can make a difference.
Thank you Lord Jesus for hearing our prayers. We trust you will guide us and show us what to do. Please give us the strength to obey. And now in obedience, Lord Jesus we offer this prayer written by John and Charles Wesley…
I am no longer my own but yours, 
Put me to what you will 
Put me to doing, put me to suffering. 
Let me be employed for you or laid aside for you. 
Let me be full, let me be empty. 
Let me have all things, let me have nothing. 
I freely and wholeheartedly yield all things to Your pleasure and disposal 
And now glorious and blessed God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, 
You are mine and I am yours. So be it. 
And this covenant now made on earth, let it be satisfied in heaven.
Amen


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