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.

Wednesday, Aug. 9: Give thanks and praise to God for being attentive to our prayers, for being slow to anger, compassionate, loving and merciful with us.

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