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The School of Prayer: Supplication
Luke 11:1-4 NRSV
1 Timothy 2:1-7 NRSV
School of Prayer:
Adoration
Confession
Thanksgiving
Supplication
Supplication— to make a humble entreaty or to ask humbly and earnestly for
Make Supplications for:
* Your Family
—Those you love, those you like, those who irritate you, those you miss
* Your Neighbors and Friends
—Supplication in Action: Stop, Drop and Pray
—Mark 2
* The Church
—Downtown
—First Church
—The Church Universal
* The World
—Pray for the leaders of the world
—Pray for both sides
—Pray with openness
* Your Enemies
—Matthew 5:43-44
A Companion Litany to Our Social Creed
God in the Spirit revealed in Jesus Christ,
calls us by grace
to be renewed in the image of our Creator,
that we may be one
in divine love for the world.
Today is the day
God cares for the integrity of creation,
wills the healing and wholeness of all life,
weeps at the plunder of earth’s goodness.
And so shall we.
Today is the day
God embraces all hues of humanity,
delights in diversity and difference,
favors solidarity transforming strangers into friends.
And so shall we.
Today is the day
God cries with the masses of starving people,
despises growing disparity between rich and poor,
demands justice for workers in the marketplace.
And so shall we.
Today is the day
God deplores violence in our homes and streets,
rebukes the world’s warring madness,
humbles the powerful and lifts up the lowly.
And so shall we.
Today is the day
God calls for nations and peoples to live in peace,
celebrates where justice and mercy embrace,
exults when the wolf grazes with the lamb.
And so shall we.
Today is the day
God brings good news to the poor,
proclaims release to the captives,
gives sight to the blind, and
sets the oppressed free.
And so shall we.
From The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church - 2016. Copyright 2016 by The United Methodist Publishing House. Used by permission.