prayer - day 38

LORD
not many days left now in our prayer watch. Thank you for sustaining all your women in your call to prayer. I ask that you keep us all motivated in these last few days so we will remain faithful to the end. Forgive us for our sins LORD, and hear our prayers as one united body calling to you, Father.

I love you LORD, and i thank you for your faithfulness. Even when we are unfaithful you are always faithful. Because you can't be anything but you. Even when we don't deserve your love you still love us. Like the Israelites who wandered around the desert for 40 days, you forgave them again and again. Like the Israelites of old, how many times did you take them back? And still they rebelled.

Thank you LORD, that when you forgive us you remember our sin no longer. Unlike us, LORD. When we forgive it takes us forever to forget. Instead it affects how we treat that person for a long time. We only have a shadow of your understanding, especially when it comes to love.

The love described in Corinthians is unconditional. It never holds a record of wrongs. LORD, I pray this will be true of the children of Gulu, child soldiers. They would have taken lives of others as instructed. Forgive them their sin LORD, and rescue them from evil. They are so young and in desperate need of your instruction, of your unfailing love, of your forgiveness, and to be able to forgive themselves.

I pray that the villagers will see them with your eyes LORD, and realise that they don't know what they are doing. To see them as children once more and forgive them. Please renew their minds and fill them with your compassion LORD. Like you have for all your children.

I pray LORD that the children of Gulu will experience your love, what it means to be a child of God, and to have your favour wherever they go. I cannot live without you, LORD. You guide my steps every day. You protect from spiritual things that I know nothing about. You keep my family safe and go before them every day. Because you love me. Because you saved me so long ago. You never left me nor forsaken me. Many times in my past you could have given up on me because I was so much trouble and so stupid. But even when I made a bad choice you turned it around for my good. Your mercy was new every morning. I have always known your favour, even in my darkest days, I was never alone. And your restored my innocence and made me a new creation, gave me a new beginning.

I owe you my life LORD. And I am grateful for your grace which covers me every day. I was always honest with you and I knew who I was - a sinner in need of your help. Not because I'm perfect, or earned it, but because I made Jesus Lord and Saviour of my life. Tho I stumble I will not fall for you hold me in your hand. You said Lord Jesus, if we love you we will obey you, obey your Father, who sent you. You know my heart Father, and it belongs to you.

All this I recount LORD, because I ask that the children of Gulu, may know you just as well. Give them this opportunity LORD, to call out to you, to choose you. Show them your mercy and cover them with your grace. I don't know the suffering these children know but they need you just as desperately I needed you. Hear their cries LORD. The tears of your girls as they deal with the abuse in their lives. Help them LORD, be their refuge like you have been mine. Please set them free LORD.

Help them to know the truth about you LORD and not the lies the adults in their lives have taught them. Help them to see you. Give them the gift of your Spirit LORD. So that no blindness wil remain in their lives, and they can experience the complete freedom that comes from following you.

Save them LORD, because you can. Heal them I pray because you are their Healer. Forgive them LORD, like you forgave the Israelites in the desert. They are only children LORD, and know not what they do. Help them to find your body who represent you in this place, to find genuine help, to find Watoto and the church they are establishing. Show them the way please LORD so they make have life in abundance, to the full, until it is overflowing.

Thank you LORD. In Jesus name I pray amene