A Prayer about Knowing What Work We’re Called to Do
A Prayer about Knowing What Work We’re Called to Do
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God….2 Cor. 5:20
Heavenly King,
Many of us struggle with knowing our calling
and purpose here on this earth.
We’re not sure which job we’re meant to do,
or when we should retire,
or if we’re meant to not work outside the home
at all in this season.
As we begin this “work week,”
show us that we all have a role to play
in your heavenly kingdom.
You have given us a title,
“Ambassador for Christ,”
and with it comes both privileges and responsibilities.
We are called to share the good news
of your peace treaty with others,
to implore others on behalf of Christ the King—
be reconciled to God.
We are called to protect the citizens of your country,
to point them to their safe place in Christ.
We are called to be compelling representatives of you,
the King, in this foreign country of the world.
One day, we will gather together
with all who serve and worship you
in your heavenly kingdom,
the new heavens and the new earth.
Meanwhile, we seek to do your will
in carrying out your kingdom plan.
Energize for us this work this week,
and show us where you would have us go
with your message.
In the name of Christ our King we pray. Amen.
Read 2 Corinthians 5:14-21.
![Will you join me in lament for those with chronic illness?
For he has not despised or scorned
the suffering of the afflicted one;
he has not hidden his face from him
but has listened to his cry for help. Psalm 22:24
Good Father,
Today we lift up our friends
who have searched and searched and searched,
who have waited and waited and waited
…for health, for wholeness, for healing.
We join in their lament
using the words of David:
“My God, my God,
why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me?”
[Don’t you hear my groaning?]
“O my God, I cry by day,
but you do not answer,
and by night, but I find no rest” (Ps. 22:2).
How we thank you, Heavenly Father,
that you have given voice to our lament
in your Word.
As David names his grief to you,
he remembers his reason to trust in you,
and he asks boldly and persistently for help.
We join him on behalf of all of our friends
who have suffered for years:
“In you our ancestors put their trust;
they trusted and you delivered them”
(Ps. 22:4).
“Be not far from me, for trouble is near,
and there is none to help”
(Ps. 22:11).
As we raise our cry for help,
may we remember that you are the good Father,
and may we join with David in praising you,
for we have even more reason to hope:
your Son, our Savior was forsaken on the cross
that we might be forgiven,
that we might one day live with you
in eternal glory,
in whole and healed bodies forever and ever.
Read Psalm 22.
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