A Prayer for Today: God is Sovereign

Almighty God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit:

Thank you for the gift of Sabbath—our once-weekly practice that we also can reenter in moments throughout the rest of our week. We PAUSE in silence to quiet our minds and hearts, resting in Your goodness to us. [PAUSE for as long as you need here to sit with the Lord in silence.]

Today we think of those who have recently lost loved ones. Lord, be as close to them as their very breath. Be their comfort. Surround them with gentle community to carry them in their grief.

This week has cycled us through so many mixed emotions and reactions to many events. Would You meet our personal, local, national, and global threats with Your transformative work—doing what You do to redeem even the most impossible of situations. Remove barriers to grace, truth, mercy, and love. Replace hate and acrimony with kindness and reconciliation.

Help us to live in such a way that others can see only Jesus. Make us lights to shine in the increasing darkness of this world. Keep us grounded in the fact that you are Sovereign over all things. Deepen our faith so we are not easily shaken. May we put our trust in You alone, not in other people or things.

Give us the supernatural ability to see Your image in every other person…

Lift oppression.

Use Your Church to provide for needs. Give us Your guidance as we use the resources You have given us to help those who are suffering or in danger or struggling.

Lord, we’re grateful for your activity in our midst. [PAUSE now to name people/events/happenings for which you are grateful.]

Speak, Lord, through this prayer time, through our times of worship, through Your word, through others today. May we hear Your voice over all others. Knit our hearts together as one. We pray these things in Your powerful Name, AMEN.

Important resources:

·         Take this free spiritual gifts assessment or this free Spanish language spiritual gifts assessment.

·         Purchase the six-week workbook in English or Spanish:

·         God. Gifts. You.: Your Unique Calling and Design 

·         DIOS. DONES. TÚ.: Tu llamado y diseño único (Spanish Edition)

• Downloadable Resources--See Sample List of Interest Areas; Your Spiritual Gifts—A Study Guide; Knowing Your Unique Calling and Purpose Study Guide; Whole-Life Ministry: A Form of Worship, Grace-Giving, and Living into Your Calling.

Shirley Giles Davis, author of the God. Gifts. You. Your Unique Calling and Design workbook, Your Unique Design Class Guide, Your Unique Design Facilitator Guide, DIOS. DONES. TÚ.: Tu llamado y diseño único (Spanish Edition), and Gifts-Calling-Purpose blog, is a consultant, coach, facilitator who has worked with hundreds of faith-based organizations, nonprofit agencies, and executive leaders in a diversity of fields for four decades. She currently serves as Catalyst for Equipping at her church.

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