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.

Sunday, Oct. 16: Our human needs are many and sometimes urgent. We ask God to be patient with us and to teach us persistence in our personal prayers and our prayers on behalf of our neighbor.

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