Today, a prayer for Israel and Palestine is added to our blog ” Clinging To The Rock”. It is simply an attempt to stir the hearts and minds of people of all faiths to pray for the world in this critical hour when God’s gift of Peace is in such a fragile state. May an unbreakable chain of prayer encircle the whole world. I believe that Alfred, Lord Tennyson expresses that challenge best:
“For what are men better than sheep or goats
That nourish a blind life within the brain,
If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer
Both for themselves and those who call them friend?
For so the whole round earth is every way
Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.”
( from idylls of the kings: The Passing Of Arthur
Alfred. Lord Tennyson)
A Prayer For Israel And Palestine
O Jesus, Saviour and Lord:
You bequeathed to the world the gift of Your Peace. Attend us; we humbly pray as now we pray for Your Homeland and the war-weary people of Israel and Palestine.
Your transforming message throughout Your Life among us breaks through the barriers of death by Your Resurrection and reveals the answer to our illusive dream of World Peace.
Instead of endorsing an age-old dictum of ancestral protocol: ” An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”You preached: “But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you. (Matthew 5:44)
But, Lord, we need a critical transfusion of Your enabling Spirit that will enable us to forget the insane rush to settle differences with cluster munitions.
Our grey world is waiting with bated breath to learn which country will be next in the race for destructive nuclear power.
Please, Lord, awaken, instead, Your professed followers to turn their faces toward the Sunrise of renewed Hope. And unabashedly demonstrate the power of Love and Faith.
In mercy, hear our prayer. We humbly ask You, Lord, to protect the millions of innocent people in Rapha who are under imminent threat without having a safe haven.
Use us, Lord, wherever and whenever we can be
used, by always relying on Your Promised Presence, so that the terrors of war will cease and the success of Your Mission will see the world share Heaven’s Peace.
For Your Love’s sake, we offer our prayers. Amen
Hymn: O God Of Love, O King Of Peace