prayer - day 33

LORD

Thank you for helping the children of Gulu. Thank you for sending your Spirit to do your will. I pray Isaiah 32 and Psalm 37 over this land, for the KPC church leadership team in Gulu and the children of Gulu. All your people doing your work in Gulu.

Let your people be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land.

I pray that the eyes of the local authorities, rebel leaders and government officials will no longer be closed and their ears will listen. That their minds will know and understand.

I pray that the tongues of your leaders will be fluent and clear, till your Spirit is poured upon them from on high and the desert of Gulu becomes a fertile field so it seems like forest.
Justice will dwell in the desert and righteousness live in the fertile field.

The fruit of righteousness will be peace; the effect of righteousness will be quietness and confidence forever. Your people will live in peaceful dwelling places, in secure homes, in undisturbed places of rest. I pray this for the children. Though hail flattens the forest and the city is leveled completely, how blessed they will be.

Your people will not fret because of evil men or be envious of those who do wrong; for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away.

Your people will trust in you and do good, dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.

Your people delight in you LORD and you will give them the desires of their hearts. Help them to commit their way to you; trust in you and you will do this:
Let their righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of their cause like the noonday sun.

They will be still before you and wait patiently for you; they will not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.

For evil men will be cut off, but your children who hope in you will inherit the land. A little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.
But the meek will inherit the land and enjoy great peace.

The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them; but you laugh at the wicked, for you know their day is coming.

The wicked draw the sword and bend the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright. But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.

Better the little that your people have than the wealth of many wicked; for the power of the wicked will be broken, but you uphold the righteous. The days of the blameless are known to you, and their inheritance will endure forever.

In times of disaster they will not wither; in days of famine they will enjoy plenty. But the wicked will perish: your enemies will be like the beauty of the fields, they will vanish—vanish like smoke.

The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous give generously; those you bless will inherit the land, but those you curse will be cut off.

If you delight in a man's way, you makes his steps firm; though he stumble, he will not fall, for you uphold him with your hand. I pray this is true for your children in Gulu.

Help your children to turn from evil and do good; then they will dwell in the land forever. For you love the just and will not forsake your faithful ones. They will be protected forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off; the righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever.

I pray this for your people in Uganda. That their mouths utter wisdom, and their tongues speak what is just. Your law is in their hearts; their feet do not slip. The wicked lie in wait for the righteous, seeking their very lives; but you will not leave them in the power of the wicked or let them be condemned when brought to trial.

We wait for you LORD and keep your way. You will exalt your people to inherit the land; when the wicked are cut off, your people will see it. I have seen a wicked and ruthless man flourishing like a green tree in its native soil, but he soon passed away and was no more; though I looked for him, he could not be found.

The salvation of your people comes from you LORD; you are their stronghold in time of trouble. You help them and deliver them; you deliver them from the wicked and save them, because they take refuge in you.

In your name Lord Jesus, amene