Oh Lord, God of heaven and earth, the bringer of salvation to the Jew and Gentile through Jesus the Messiah, the fulfiller of your tangible love through grace and mercy. God through Jesus the one mediator may you hear this prayer of a seeking heart to fulfill the greatness of your love to others.
God I confess the apathy of we, as followers formed together as a church. The lack of interest in reaching the orphan, widow, and oppressed. God the lack of passion of our neighbors around our towns, counties, states, nations, and world. We have not obeyed the greatest call to love You with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength. In not fulfilling the greatest commandment of loving You, we have no hope of expressing the commandment of loving our neighbor.
God, do not forget the promise that YOUR Son Jesus stated, “II tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.” God you have given us the Holy Spirit to live out these truths of taking a Kingdom that is not like any other we have ever heard of before. God a Kingdom built on love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control. A Kingdom that battles the forces of evil in the realms that we do not see. God about bringing a Kingdom built upon the blood of Jesus Christ and His surrendering love.
God may you hear this prayer for the sake of others. God remove the “contact scales” that we place upon our eyes daily, in which we use to shield our eyes from the hurting and downcast!
May we stop the cancer of apathy! God call forth your modern day Nehemiah’s to go out and start rebuilding that which we have so long left unfinished!
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