Please join us in offering these special prayers for climate and the environment, written by Martyn Payne, BRF volunteer and prayer advocate.
You can use them with your church, for Sunday intercessions, with your family and friends or however suits you best.
Lord,
we pray ‘Thy Kingdom come’,
and this is a bigger prayer than we realise:
not just for your reign in our hearts;
not just for your rule in our world;
not just for the reunion of heaven and earth;
but also for the restoration of harmony
between created and Creator.
Lord, we want to work with you for this,
each and every day,
because we recognise that Christ in our hearts
must also mean Christ at the heart
of the way we care for Planet Earth.
Amen
Gracious God,
you have planned in Christ to restore all things:
our relationship with you,
our love for one another,
our care for your world,
and our concern for every living creature under heaven.
Help us to embrace this high calling as your people
and to be committed to
planet-care and people-justice
as much as personal salvation.
For your name’s sake. Amen
Lord of the skies above and the galaxies beyond,
Lord of the oceans deep and the mountains high,
Lord of all green and growing things and animal life,
Lord of all that you have made,
Teach us again how to be your creation carers,
Bringing life to your planet and your people
By your grace
Amen
Creator God,
who once looked at what you had made
and pronounced it ‘good’,
forgive us for damaging this goodness
with greed, selfishness and neglect.
May your grace poured out to us in Christ Jesus
transform both our attitude to one another
and towards this world you have given us,
so that, as caretakers of your creation,
we might hear you declare once again
that everything is ‘very good’. Amen
Lord,
everything in this world of yours is sacred,
made by you, loved by you and sustained by you.
Forgive us for the harm we have caused
to the natural order and to all our fellow creatures.
We repent of our sin, and ask for your help
to change our attitudes as individuals, as churches and as nations,
so that once again everything might declare your glory
as at the beginning.
Amen
