Conservative Party
Conference
Ps. 23:1 Jehovah-Rohi God our Shepherd we pray for the Conservative Party
conference and ask that You will guide all decision making at the conference
with Your Holy Spirit.
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Ps. 23:2 Jehovah-Jireh The Lord our Provider we pray, "Give
us this day our daily bread (Mat. 6: 11)," and ask that
You will guide the party as they formulate the future plans for our Nation.
Ps. 23:3 Jehovah-Shalom God our Peace You make us lie down in green pastures, leading us beside quiet waters we
pray that Your Shalom Peace will permeate the conference as they deal with all
the problems associated with the security breach caused by the new app. We
thank You for guiding them with Your Holy Spirit.
Ps. 23:4 Jehovah-Rapha the Lord our Healer we pray that You would heal the hurts, bitterness, control,
judgments, differences, separation, misunderstanding, etc., between some of the
members.
Ps. 23:5,6,12 Jehovah-Tsidkenu the Lord our Righteousness
we pray that You would guide each member in
paths of righteousness and justice to bring You all the Glory, all the honour
and all the worship. Amen
100 days of Prayer
Day 57
See, I
have inscribed you on the palms of my hands Isaiah 49:16a (NRSV)
LETTER TO MY GRANDPA
Dear
Grandpa,
I’m
shortly to set off for the Somme to meet a German, retracing the journey you
took just over 100 years ago to face the Germans. I’m taking your identity tag
inscribed with your name and military number, and scanty memories of what you
experienced. My uncle, your youngest son, told me that your service included
collecting those injured and the bodies of those killed from no man’s land.
The
German I’m meeting is named Martin, a personal friend from a partnership
between the churches we served. We discovered that we each had grandfathers who
served at the Somme. Like you, his grandfather was a Christian. You share
Christian names too, you being Frederick and he was Friedrich.
As
we meet, Martin will remember his grandfather and I’ll remember you, and we’ll
both reflect on the folly of war. I wonder if in another 100 years, other
friends may meet to remember the folly of conflicts fought in our lifetime, for
we have not yet learned to live in peace.
Yours
in love, sorrow and hope,
David
PRAYER
Dear
God, Thank you for our names, Frederick or Friedrich, Freda or Frida, engraved
on identity tags in conflict, inscribed on the palms of your hands in eternity.
Help us to forget ‘sides’, recognise the child of God in each person, and draw
closer to living as sisters and brothers in peace.
ACTION
Write a
letter either to someone from the other ‘side’ seeking reconciliation and
peace. What would you say to them? If you could meet, what gift might you take?
[Revd Dr
David Pickering is Moderator of the United Reformed Church National Synod of
Scotland, his friend is Pfarrer Martin Henninger, minister of the Lutherkirche
in Frankenthal, part of the Church of the Palatinate in Germany.]
Please pray and share with
your intercessors, Bible Study Groups, Prayer Groups, Church Prayers, Men &
Women’s Groups. Thank you.
Las & Arlene Ratnayake
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