Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs of the world and give thanks for the ministries of our church.

Thursday, Feb. 9: Pray those who continue to wage war and commit human atrocities in Syria will lay down their weapons and self-interests and redirect their energy and resources to establishing peace, reconciliation, creating a just and compassionate government, and rebuilding safe, prosperous communities for millions of refugees and internally displaced Syrians to return home to.

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