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.

Friday, May 26: Pray for courage and boldness of faith and conscience to do good in the world, stand for justice and peace, and live by Jesus’ example, even in the face of criticism, social pressure or ridicule.

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