Lenten Prayers
Walking With Jesus
Day 12: Tuesday
Mark 2:18-20 (see also Isaiah 58)
Jesus our Teacher and
Leader, we celebrate your presence among us.
We rejoice that we are able to walk with You each day. We rejoice that You lead us into lives that
are full of surprise and delight, lives that we could not have predicted or
imagined apart from your presence and guidance.
We feast, in delight, with those whom You have gathered to yourself as
servants of God’s reign.
Yet, we seek discernment for
those times when we must fast, when we must wait upon You by setting aside our
most urgent needs so that your will may be done among us in fresh ways. Enable us to put the demands of your reign
before our own comforts. Enable us to
fast in ways that hasten the work of justice among us.
As we fast in glad service,
may we offer the oppressed release from their varied chains and cells; may we
provide the hungry with nourishing food; may we welcome the homeless into
loving homes; may we clothe the naked with sturdy clothing; and may we help
those who are afflicted to find satisfaction in You. We follow your lead in hope for the full
revealing of your healing reign among us.
Amen.
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