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.

Thursday, Feb. 20 Stewardship is more than annual pledge cards, balanced budgets and financial responses to God’s love―it’s a way of life. Pray that we will recognize and give thanks for the breadth of resources and assets―time, talents, possessions and money―God has entrusted to our care as individuals, families and congregations, and that we will discover ways of using everything we have to live out God’s call to love God and our neighbors.

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