Prayer for Racial Harmony
PERSONAL PRAYER GUIDE (Self-Guided Prayer Time)
1. Pray for Your Own Heart:
- Lord open my eyes to see where I might have prejudice or implicit biases.
- Psalm 139:23
- Psalm 19:12-14
2. Pray for The Church:
- That the church have a deep desire to be ministers of reconciliation and wisdom in how to do that well.
- 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
- Help us to be advocates for one another.
- Matthew 22:37-40
- Esther 4:14
- Help us all see people the way that you see them - as image bearers
- Colossians 3:11
- Ephesians 2:13-22
- Soften the hearts of people
- Psalm 51:17
- Help us to humbly serve others and make ourselves lower
- Philippians 2:2-4
- That we would have the strength to let the justice belong to the Lord.
- Proverbs 20:22-24
3. Pray for Auburn/Opelika: (Our Your City)
- Jeremiah 29:7
- Isaiah 1:16-18
- Genesis 4:9-12 – Praying over the history of East Alabama
4. Pray for our nation and leaders:
- 1 Timothy 2:1-2
- 2 Chronicles 7:14
5. Pray for Biblical justice:
- Micah 6:8
- Amos 5:21-24
- Proverbs 31:8-9