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.
Tuesday, July 18: Ask for God’s mercy and forgiveness for our actions and inactions that contribute to divisions, tensions and threats that exist in our country and world and that the Spirit of God will stir in us the desire and determination to work for understanding, reconciliation, peace and justice with neighbors, communities and nations, and between groups with which we identify and affiliate.