Always and Forever

Perhaps during this week, as you pause for thought each day, you would pray for the safe return of our soldiers from their mission in Afghanistan.

It has been highly publicised that this is the costliest year (in terms of human lives lost) since the Falklands War of the early 1980s. For every soldier lost a wife, son, daughter, mother, father, grandfather, grandmother …. mourns.

Pray that the leaders of the World’s great democracies would seek God’s wisdom and His judgment in this matter. Pray that there would be reconciliation between the East and the West; and that we could all live together in peace.

There are, of course, many other countries in which British forces are stationed just now - in active service; many in grave danger. Pray for God’s protection over them and wisdom and guidance for their commanding officers. May each member of our armed forces seek Christ as their Lord and Saviour.

Above all, pray for peace in our World. A peace that can only come from God.

Graeme Parkhill

Prayer for Peace - Church of England Website:

Almighty Father, whose will it is to restore all things in your beloved Son, the King of all:
Govern the hearts and minds of those in authority,
and bring the families of the nations, divided and torn apart by the ravages of sin,
to be subject to His just and gentle rule;
who is alive and reign in you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, One God, now and forever more.
God, our refuge and strength, bring near the day when wars shall cease and poverty and pain shall end,
that the earth shall know the peace of Heaven.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.