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Looking for more inspiration? Check out these related articles: Send a free Father’s Day Ecard to every dad in your life. And, let’s not forget to celebrate the special role they play or have played in our lives. Share this prayer with your friends and family and invite them to come alongside you to pray for God to bless all the dads out there - from the first-time father to the seasoned grandpa. Guide their steps, use their hands, and make them a blessing to others as you continue to fulfill your special purpose for their lives. Show them how much you love them and care about them. May they see You and know You in new ways.
Prayer for our fathers full#
But amid the worries of material life your soul was full of. I ask that you would bless them and give them great joy and peace. Kindly protect all the fathers who trustingly come to you. Thank you for all the fathers and father-figures in this world and for the many ways you use them to lovingly guide others to Your heart. Let’s praise God for placing these honorable, kind, gentle souls in our paths for His loving light to shine through, providing us with a beautiful example of what it means to live for God. LaGretta Bjorn is the pastor of the United Methodist Church of Spring Valley in Spring Valley, New York and is a clergy member of the Greater New Jersey Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.On this Father’s Day, we ask you to join us in a quick prayer to honor dads, husbands, sons and all the men in our lives. Strengthen us to stand up against the challenges of this world, honoring your name and trusting your grace. Thank you for your mercy despite our disobedience. Teach us to be obedient to your will, respecting you as children ought. Loving God, you who are our father and our mother, we thank you that you have shown us how important it is to follow your example as we grow in faith. We pledge as a congregation to love and nurture the fathers among us so that they will manifest the love of God in all that they do. One: All of us are shaped by the relationship or lack of relationship with our fathers.Īll: On this day when we remember what it means to have a father or be a father, we recognize the importance of fathers in our communities. Second, because God answers prayer (Matthew 21:22, John 14:13-14).
Many: For some of us, God's love fills in the empty spaces our fathers left behind. The Founding Fathers on Prayer An Interview With David Barton Why is it important that we pray for our country and its peoples First, because God tells us to (1 Timothy 2:1-4), and it is important that we obey Him (John 14:15, Acts 5:32). One: Some of our dads are here some were never here. Many: For some of us, our father's love is like God's love - too deep, too long, too wide, too strong to measure. Guide their steps and fill their hearts with. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. One: Our relationships with our fathers are complicated. We ask that You would grant them wisdom and discernment as they navigate the challenges of fatherhood. Our Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name.
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