Every Monday, Living Lutheran offers a week’s worth of prayers from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions – one for each day this week – 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.
Monday, Feb. 29: For the sake of Christian unity, sharing the gospel, mutual encouragement and serving our neighbor, we ask God to help us move beyond our apprehensions and further our relationships and conversations with people of other denominations, faiths and traditions.
Tuesday, March 1: We remember in our prayers, especially during spring, congregations and communities subject to severe weather and flooding, that God will guide their emergency preparations, equip them to care for their neighbors and grant them safety.
Wednesday, March 2: We give thanks for the $15,247,087 raised during the ELCA Malaria Campaign and ask God to strengthen and bless the continuing successful efforts of our partners and their health-related projects.
Thursday, March 3: In our Lenten reflections, we are keenly aware of our many troubles, sins and shortcomings, yet we rejoice in God’s forgiveness and love that surrounds and upholds us day and night.
Friday, March 4: We remember in our prayers the Gettysburg and Philadelphia Lutheran seminaries as they begin the process of creating a unified school of theology for preparing Christian leaders for the church and world.
Saturday, March 5: We pray for God’s blessings on the critical work in HIV and AIDS ministry that Mary Beth and Bayo Oyebade are doing in Nigeria as ELCA missionaries.
Sunday, March 6: We remember in our prayers, with thanksgiving and relief, that God seeks us when we are lost or have strayed and celebrates our awkward return as did the father in Jesus’ parable of the lost son.