Prayer for Thursday

Lord God, our Father in Heaven, we turn to You in these times when we are under so much stress and temptation and we witness the dire circumstances surrounding us. Let Your light glow in our hearts to give us firmness, patience, and perseverance throughout the time of testing, no matter how long it lasts. Your hand can and does change everything. Your hand can shorten the time we must wait until Your light shines out of the darkness of death and evil, until Your light reveals Your holiness, Your character and nature to Your children and to the whole world. You are our God and Father as You have promised, and remaining at Your side, we look to You in faith and trust as a child holding tightly to their parents hand. You will bring about goodness, justice, and mercy as You have promised, and so fulfill Your will. In the only name above all other names, in Christ Jesus, Your Son, we ask these things.

Amen.

Adapted from the Daily Written Prayers of Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, 1842–1919. In Public Domain