Bring Peace to Our Communities

THE HOLY SPIRIT: Peace

Verse of the Day: But I will send you the Counselor — the Spirit of truth. He will come to you from the Father and will tell you all about Me. – John 15:26 (NLT)

Father in heaven, How excellent is Your Name in all the earth! Your mercy is from everlasting to everlasting, reconciling each household to Yourself in Christ, making peace through His cross,
then sending the promised Holy Spirit to guide into all truth. Now we humbly ask You Father to bless each person, in each home, in this neighbourhood with the peace of Christ through the inward knowledge of Your Salvation. 

Build in each one a strong love and a confident undying faith in Jesus Christ. Guide each one into wisdom and understanding in the matters of life. Bring peace to their personal, family, school, business and community relationships. Protect and keep them from evil. Bless their going out and their coming in. May their lives overflow with joy and love toward You and others. May each one become the person You have desired them to be. For Your honour and praise, we pray in Jesus’ Name, Amen.

John Dobroski Compassionate Resource Warehouse

May we be Filled with Glorious Joy!

THE HOLY SPIRIT: Joy

Verse of the Day: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

Heavenly Father, we thank you for continually producing joy in our world and for the Spirit glorifying the Son and fulfilling the scriptures. We see your joy over creation with the blossoms of springtime as a fitting demonstration of how you impartially grant joy, rain, and sunshine to all the families of the earth. You are a gracious God! Strength and Joy are in Your Place! 

Lord we pray today that you would express your joy in and through all the families in this region. We ask that moms and dads would be glad and hope in you today, and that seniors could joyfully celebrate the fullness of their lives. We declare that all over our city the joyful shouts of children would be heard, whom having not seen you, they love you, believe in you, and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy!

Stewart Mackenzie - City Light Church

Move on Our Hearts

THE HOLY SPIRIT: Love

Verse of the Day: When he comes he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment. In regard to sin because men do not believe in me. - John 16:8,9

Father, O how you love your creation, those you have created in your image. How gently you move with power and persuasion to bring men and women and children of all ages and all nations to you. Here in Victoria we ask that you will demonstrate your great love by moving
in the power of your Spirit transforming the hearts and minds of those who do not believe. Let your love so shine that they might see and when seeing believe in your Son Jesus. And by believing be saved. Heavenly Father we pray that you will bless the people of this city with the convicting and convincing power of your Spirit. That you might glorify your name and build your church. In Jesus name we pray.

John Schaper Arbutus Christian Fellowship

May Our Neighbours Know the Freedom in Christ.

GOD ENCOUNTERS: Calling of God (Life Purpose)

Verse of the Day: The angel of the Lord appeared to Moses in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed. So Moses said, 'must turn aside now and see this marvellous sight….' – Exodus 3:2-3

Everlasting Father, Long ago, you heard the cries of your people and you came down to rescue them. You appeared to Moses in a burning bush. And even though Moses was old and ineloquent, you called him and equipped him to be your servant. Today, we need you to come down in a special way again. We long for our neighbours to know the freedom that you offer in Christ.

And so we pray:
• Glorify your name in our city.
• Blaze among the Garry Oaks and Douglas Firs that line
our streets.
• Give us, and our neighbours, eyes that can see your
marvellousness, and courageous hearts—that we would
“turn aside” and embrace your Kingdom.

Show us where we fit in your salvation mission, Father. Even though we are limited and ineloquent, equip us and use us for your glory. In Jesus name, Amen.

David Salverda - Victoria Christian Reformed Church

Bring Clarity to the Confused and Strength to the Weak

GOD ENCOUNTERS: Mental Health/Healing

Verse of the Day: The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor. – Luke 4:18,19

Father, we thank You for the people in our neighbourhoods. You love them, You made them and You have redeemed them. You care for them, You have given them life and breath. Jesus, You give hope to the hopeless, healing to the broken, clarity to the confused, strength to the weak, and deliverance to those bound by the enemy. 

We pray for those that struggle with mental illness. Father, reveal Your truth and power to them show them the Hope that is found in the triumph of an empty tomb. We pray that they would reach out to You and be found by You; that they would experience Your light as it obliterates their darkness. May the presence of Jesus overwhelm and heal them; deliver them from their bondage and draw them to Your perfect love, in the name of Jesus.

Lindsay Hodges - Youth for Christ

Thank You For Your Miraculous Provision

GOD ENCOUNTERS: Miracles of Provision

Verse of the Day: But more than anything else, put God’s work first and do what he wants. Then the other things will be yours as well. Matthew 6:33 (CEV)

Heavenly Father, Thank you for the way that you have provided for your children through the ages. I come to you this day as your child looking to you for the provision that you have promised in your word. It is my heart’s desire to know you and hear your voice. Please help me to walk in obedience to you and put your work first and do what you want me to do this day. There are so many needy people around us Lord. I pray that you will draw us all to yourself so that we all can know You and claim this promise for our lives.

Thank you for your miraculous provision in my life at times when I thought there was no way and no hope. Help me be your hand extended to someone in my community today and bring them some hope along with a random act of kindness that you will direct me in. May they encounter You and Your love and may it be a miracle of provision in their life this day. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

Don Allan - Glad Tidings Church

As You Have Reconciled Us with the Father

GOD ENCOUNTERS: Relational Healing

Verse of the Day: If I have found favour in your eyes, accept this gift from me. For to see your face is like seeing the face of God, now that you have received me favourably. - Genesis 33:11b

Precious Father, you are Lord over the earthly family, over our extended and nuclear families from which we descend and of which we are all a part. O Lord, on this day as we walk, cycle and drive through our neighbourhoods, we pray your healing into the relational estrangements of our existence: into every fracture between parent and child, every open wound between siblings, every thinly-veiled scar between friends that unfortunately, for so many, has come to
define them. We pray your blessing for ourselves and those entrusted to our care that we may all see “the face of God” in those once lost to us. Meet us in this complicated and muddy process, Jesus, for you have reconciled us to the Father through the Spirit, One God forever and ever. Amen.

Ken M. Peters - Saanich Community Church