+ please grant the afflicted Copts your comfort.
+ please grant their families and beloved, your strength.
+ please grant all Copts to see, find and seek you in this new era of martyrdom.
+ please grant church clergy wisdom.
+ please grant us to return to you, and come closer to you, and find our refuge in you.
+ please grant us spiritual wisdom to understand your message allowing
this to happen, and grant us to seek answers and solutions from you, not from people, nor from leaders nor organizations.
+ please grant us, Copts all over the world, to love and forgive those who kill us, persecute us, chase us, and transgress against us, especially those who do it knowingly, in full awareness and on purpose.
+ please grant us to react spiritually, as citizens of Heaven, as befit your children, and not in a natural human way.
+ please grant us to let resentment go from our hearts, towards those who persecute us.
+ please grant muslims who hate us to know the truth, so that the truth, You O Lord, set them free.
+ please take charge of our relationship with those who hate us and prepare evil for us and those we didn't manage to truly love yet, plant peace among us, O King of Peace.
Lord, we need peace, we need a solution, but we much more need, and therefor ask and seek, You Yourself to dwell in us, please grant us to be with You, always!
"And being let go, they went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them. So when they heard that, they raised their voice to God with one accord and said:
(Lord, You are God, who made heaven and earth and the sea, and all that is in them, who by the mouth of Your servant David have said:
‘ Why did the nations rage,
And the people plot vain things?
The kings of the earth took their stand,
And the rulers were gathered together
Against the LORD and against His Christ.’
For truly against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done. Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.)
And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness." (Acts 4:23-31)
‘ Why did the nations rage,
And the people plot vain things?
The kings of the earth took their stand,
And the rulers were gathered together
Against the LORD and against His Christ.’
For truly against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done. Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.)
And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness." (Acts 4:23-31)
I received this response today:
ReplyDeleteHappy Epiphany
May the Lord who showed his glory in the epiphany shine in every heart, so that all the world would know him.
Let us all do what he asked us, to forget who we are, and only remember that we are the salt and the light of the world, and that it is us that can reveal the message of God to all humanity
Let's all remember our baptism, the day we were "white". Let's keep it this way!