24 August 2025 Prayer for the Chaplain + Pastor + Deacon

You can pray along with Pr. Laura right HERE

Stand me up in faith today, God. Lift my eyes up to see you clearly in my life. Take away my weariness. Satisfy my pleading heart. As I prepare once again to do this job, to follow this call, it can be so easy to feel overwhelmed by all the sickness and hopelessness, the despair, the evidence of a world gone mad. So help me, just for a moment, to put down the concerns and worries of the people who I serve. Give me momentary blinders from the world. Help me even to put down the concerns of those who are dearest to me. And so I come to you, God, bent over with my own things. My own inner longings and struggles. And I give them to you. Or maybe you wrench them away from me. And you stand me up straight and there is life coursing through me – your life. Newness. A wholeness that can only come from you. And it’s in this space that I know you are with me. Undoubtedly. You are guiding me. Comforting me. Forgiving me. Encouraging me. Loving me. So stay with me – in my breath and bones and DNA. Let your love shape who I am today. Let it reshape me. Let it form new words and change my steps. And make me new all over again. Your faithfulness for me is astounding. Your miracles and mercy take my breath away. Thank you.

Show your mercy and grace to those I love dearly and to my colleagues in ministry, too.

You stand me up and put me on my feet. Thank you. Amen.

Miracle of miracles! Beloved human! You are loved by God. Don’t be afraid – God is with you.