911 Prayer
· 246
people on the four planes that landed in Pennsylvania, The Pentagon, and the
World Trade Center.
·
2606
in New York City in the Twin Towers and on the ground 125 at the Pentagon, 55
of which were military personnel and 411
emergency workers who responded to the scene, including 342 firefighters, 10
paramedics, 23 NYC police officers and 37 Port Authority officers. All American
citizens except for 236 from more than 90 other countries.
These are the
numbers of those who died on 9/11, but the impact of 9/11 goes on.
·
-Families
who lost loved ones
·
-Military
who have been service and many who have died serving our country in Iraq and
Afghanistan
·
-We
have all been affected by increased security and the underlying threat of
future attacks.
·
-The
world has changed in so many ways.
We all have
our stories and memories of 9/11. We remember where we were, and many of us
lost loved ones or friends, or were impacted some way.
As followers
of Jesus, scripture calls us called to
·
-Love
mercy, do justice, and walk humbly with our God
· -Trust
in the lord with all our heart
·
-Rejoice
with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep.
·
-Pray
for the peace of Jerusalem.
There are so
many to pray for. There have been so many programs on television and articles
written about the tenth anniversary. To prepare our hearts for a time of
corporate prayer, I’d like you to share how you might pray for the world. I’d
like you to stand, turn to one or two people near you and share one thing you’d
pray for.
TIME FOR
SHARING
Let’s pray.
God we praise
you as the God of Creation who brought forth order out of chaos, light out of
the darkness, life out of dust. We acknowledge that you are the sovereign God
who holds the world in the palm of your hand. We also know that you are the God
of all compassion who comforts, knows us, and gives us hope and a future. We
thank you that you are the Saving God, that in Jesus Christ you have made the
way for salvation and that through him we have new and eternal life. We thank
you that you are the redeeming God, who is making all things new, has the power
to heal and forgive and restore. In the midst of brokenness and heartache, mourning
and recovery, in the midst of war and threats of terror, we acknowledge that
you are God. So, God our father we come to you by faith, responding to your
invitation to ask anything. We bring to your own prayer requests, now in a time
of silence.
SILENCE
Thank you for
hearing us God. We trust you. We praise you, we ask you to form us into a
people who would bring about your kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. Make us a people who love mercy, do
justice and who walk humbly with you. Make
us more and more into the likeness of your son, that we as a people would
reflect your glory, your goodness, your faithfulness to the world. IN JESUS’
NAME. AMEN
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