Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource “Prayer ventures.” These daily 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.
You can download a pdf with the monthly “Prayer ventures” here.
Saturday, Sept. 12 We ask the Spirit to renew our faith and give us strength that we might tirelessly bear love, hope, peace and justice into the world.
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