Precious God! I come to you tonight
on behalf of my entire congregation of Randolph Memorial Baptist Church and we
are broken. I pray that you cradle us in your arms and comfort us like a mother
rocking her restless newborn to sleep. Help us find rest in Your arms. Help us
to find peace in the midst of this chaos. Help us to cope with the stabbing
pains that consume us. Help us to mourn because we have lost something precious
to us. Help calm our anxious thoughts as we are reminded that You love us and
that You created us. Help us to share with You our deepest hurts. Allows us to
cry at Your feet because we do not understand what is going on around us. Help
us to ask questions even if they have no answers. Loving Sustainer, help us to
stand when all we can do is lie on our faces in tears. God, help us to find
community in one another. I pray that our circumstances will not consume us but
that the similarity of the pain we all share will bring us closer to one
another. As we are blinded by the mist and fog of wounded hearts, give us new
visions that we cannot see on our own. Daddy, help us to spend adequate time
mourning the loss but during that time, strengthen us to dance to the beat of
the new life song of Randolph Memorial Baptist Church. Give us voices to sing
praises to You, The Almighty. Don’t let us wallow in our sorrows but rather
give us a joy that cannot be taken. Give us words to proclaim Your goodness.
Give us new life, shower us with abundant joy. Help our church to regain its
health and heal our wounds, O Great Physician. Peacemaker, shine Your light on
those who criticize and help them to see that they are wasting beautiful
moments of their lives by wreaking havoc on the lives of others. God, do what
You do, show us what You have in store. God, we know that You alone bring
beauty from ashes and we are looking forward to when that moment comes. Amen
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