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Prayers for others and for ourselves for the first Sunday in Lent.
These prayers were written to go alongside a service for the first Sunday in Lent, based on the account of the wilderness experience of Jesus in Luke 4: 1-13. The theme of the reflection is that within the wilderness experience, we encounter God and we draw on that encounter to be able to find ways ‘out of the wilderness’.
Loving Jesus, who spent 40 days in the wilderness alone,
Help us now in this time of prayer to come alongside and hold to
you in prayer those may feel isolated, alone, tested or tempted as you were.
We pray for those leaders of the world who are tempted by the
lure of power, without considering the cost to others.
We pray for those at the root of conflict, division and violence whose
desire ‘to have things their way’ prevents them listening to your voice of peace.
May the gift of your life, bring them out of the wilderness
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