O dear Lord and great Physician, we come to you in prayer in these troubled times with humble heart and anxious minds.
We know not what lies before us with this Coronavirus plague, therefore we come before your throne and plea for mercy. Show us your great love and care, O Creator of all things.
We humble ourselves before you and confess our many shortcomings. We are not worthy of your tender loving kindness towards us, for we do not live like you want your people to live.
We are selfish and prideful, who more often worship money and self than we worship you, O great Lord. We find ourselves too often striving after the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and for our pride of life.
It seems one day slips into the next, one week disappears into the next, then months, then years.
We confess we have fallen greatly and have failed to grow closer to you, our Holy Father. Therefore we come to you with bended knee and beg forgiveness. Heal us from our sicknesses of sins as you healed all manners of sickness and diseases when you became flesh and walked amongst us on the earth.
We confess we are a sick and ailing people that have strayed far from the fold. Bring us closer to thee O great Shepherd, feed and water us from thy everlasting springs and the green hills of thy steadfast love. Only then, when we are back in your fold and under your gracious hand, will your countenance shine warmly upon us, and your ear will hear our cry.
Wash our muddied souls with the pureness of the innocent blood of thy beloved Son, and feed our starving spirits with thy daily bread. Keep us, that we stray not out of your love and care.
Look down upon us with thy great mercy. Give us strength and courage, give us insight and love. Help us be a light to the world in these troubled times, and them see our love for you, Heavenly Father, let them see how we walk in total trust as children of the Light. Let them hear us praise you, that your name might be glorified. Let the world understand that we thy people view this world and life not as an end to our means, but as a time and place where we can worship you, and show your love to all. A time and place where we can testify and shout out to all the world how great and gracious a God we serve. A God so full of love and compassion that he gave his only begotten Son that he might die for what we should have died for, who endured a most humiliating, gruesome and lonesome death, that we might live. You, O Lord, who spared not the life of your Son in the great love you have for us lowly sinners, look down upon us with compassion and mercy in this time and hear our prayers.
This we pray in the name of thy most precious and loving Son, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Amen.
