Prayer Requests

James 5:16 Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects.

Philippians 4:6 Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

It is important that we as Christians pray for one another, and for those who interact for us. We can take anything to God, no matter is too great, or too small for Him to hear. We welcome prayer requests from anyone, for anything, and we're happy to post prayer requests on the site so that anybody passing through may pray for you. If you would like to post a prayer request, click on the link below, and if you would like to pray over the specific prayer requests added here, please do so. More general prayer requests are below.

As always, we pray for those in authority, for the leaders of our nations, whichever those may be, for the Presidents and Prime Ministers of the United Nations, for President Bush, Prime Minister Blair, President Chirac, and others.

We pray for the people of Iraq, facing war, and for their government and for Saddam Hussein.

We pray for the people of Afganistan, recovering after war and the change of government, that their lives may be peaceful and happy, and that their country may grow in strength and happiness following the recent war.

We pray for the countries of the Middle East, for Israel and for Palestine, and their neighbouring countries, both their leaders and ordinary people, as there is (as ever) warfare in that region. We pray for peace.

We pray for the poor in every nation; for the homeless, the destitute, those who feel they have no hope. We pray for those who are struggling to make ends meet, those who have to take degrading jobs in order to feed themselves and their families; for the men and women who cannot find work, and who are desolate and degraded because of that.

We pray for those who are sick, in every nation under heaven. We pray for those with AIDS, for those with cancer, for those with terminal as well as temporary illnesses.

We pray for those with mental illnesses, that they may find the courage both to heal and to face the stigma that goes with their illness.

We pray for those who are lonely, that they may find comfort.

We pray for those who are in prison, both them, their families, and those they harmed.

We pray for those in the ministry, for ministers and priests of every denomination, for missionaries, charitable workers and all who serve God day by day.

We pray for those in authority over others - for managers, foremen and employers of all kinds.

We pray for the elderly, and for the young, as well as for the middle-aged.

We pray for mothers, and pregnant women, and for those whose children have left home. We pray for wives, that they may support their families and their husbands.

We pray for fathers, that they may have strength to support their wives and their children; and for those whose wives or girlfriends have left them.

We pray for those who are single, for those who wish to find love, and those who wish to remain alone.

We lift up in our prayers every day all those who need love, the whole world, us included, Christian and non-Christian, good and bad, and that they receive not so much what they want, as what God knows they need.

Hebrews 4:16 Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Psalm 5:2 Hearken to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to thee do I pray.

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