04 February 2021

A Daily Intercession

This is from Gerhard’s Schola Pietatis, volume 2:

Merciful, eternal God, comfort of the distressed, Healer of the sick: let our prayer come before You with whatever anxieties and needs we cry to You, so that all mankind may rejoice in Your help and thank You.

May You also graciously forgive Your Christian people their sins, and rescue them from all error and evil. Keep them in true faith and obedience. Give them faithful teachers.

May all authorities lead and rule to Your glory and for the common peace.

Protect all heads of households along with their wives, children, and household members. 

Cleanse the air of all pollution, pestilence, disaster, sickness, fires, and war. Graciously avert all the aforementioned, well-deserved punishments from us—or otherwise sustain us through them with Your mercy.

Give us fruits of the fields and protect us.

Take care of the imprisoned. Help those who have been shipwrecked back to land. Comfort the distressed. Grant the expectant mother a happy view of a new fruit from her body. Grant health to all the sick. Grant grace to sinners to better their lives. And show mercy to all believers in Christ. Impart Your Holy Spirit and eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

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