A prayer of thanks and a plea for wise persons and caring community

God of care and community

I don’t know where to start with this prayer, but here goes… I want to thank You for the wise and generous souls in my life who pour their wisdom into me at the very times You ordain them to speak. You know just how much I need them to speak Your words to me in those moments I either too easily run awry or when I just need to discern the right way forward.

I also join with that note of thanks, a plea that You would add wisdom to our lives where we so desperately need it, whether we recognise it or not. Help us know that encouraging and correcting words come from You, as Your provision, through human ears and tongues. Help us to listen when we need to and help us know when to speak and when not to and give us only Your words.

Finally, about these wise persons, Lord; help us encourage them for their input into our lives, for their understanding, and also for their courage to speak what You give them. A plea, too, for the one who sorely seeks wisdom but as yet has no or few wise advisors.

Then there’s caring community, Lord, or which we’re all in need.

Thank You for the times when we feel alive within a broader throng of likeminded persons. Thank You that the tyranny of distance is overcome through social media. Help us to use that wisely to encourage and admonish others according to Your will alone. Thank You, that in community, we’re all mutually blessed and in the realms of humanity, anyone can bless another, that there’s no pecking order.

A plea for anyone who lacks both care and community that together make wise society we belong to. And for those times we lack such community, when we feel all alone in working out our salvation, help us pray for an embracing of loving ties that draw us together in truth.

Lord, thank You for the wise ones You have placed in our lives, and thank You in advance for the provision that’s in the midst of occurring.

In Jesus’ caring and wise name,

AMEN.

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