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Justice and Worship

Justice Prayers is a weekly post with 3-5 prayers addressing justice issues from around the world, sent straight to Do Justice subscribers' inboxes every Wednesday. 

Reflect, lament, pray, and incorporate God's ongoing narrative of justice for the vulnerable into your devotional life and congregational worship services.Forward them to your pastor for Sunday's congregational prayer, add them to your church bulletin, print them for use in small groups, or supplement your personal devotions.

See archives from before July 2021 here

Justice Prayers - May 15, 2024

Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him. - Psalm 62:5

Justice Prayers - May 8, 2024

"God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep." - J. I. Packer

Justice Prayers - May 1, 2024

"And he shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God. And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth." - Micah 5:4

Justice Prayers - April 24, 2024

We remember that the Earth is the Lord’s and everything in it - including us and our choices.

Justice Prayers - April 17, 2024

"The Lord IS my shepherd. Not was, not may be, nor will be. . . is my shepherd on Sunday, is on Monday, and is through every day of the week; is in January, is in December, and every month of the year, is at home, and is in China; is in peace, and is in war; in abundance, and in penury." -  Hudson Taylor

Justice Prayers - April 10, 2024

"You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you. If you have the Shepherd, you have grace for every sin, direction for every turn, a candle for every corner and an anchor for every storm. You have everything you need." -Max Lucado

Justice Prayers - April 3, 2024

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep." - John 10:11

Justice Prayers - March 27, 2024

May I be a person marked by bright hope in the midst of the darkest of hours.  May I be an Easter person.  - Kate Bowler

Justice Prayers - March 20, 2024

Maybe this is what it means to be an Easter person - to see Christ and think, Gardener, not as a mistaken identity but a prophetic one.  The seed in the ground, the body in the tomb - this is a picture of defiant hope. - Kate Bowler

Justice Prayers - March 13, 2024

“Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!” - Revelation 5:12


Haiti in Chaos

Haiti is in a spiral of collapse as gang violence has shut down the airport, set fire to government offices, taken control of prisons, freeing 4000 prisoners, keeping the Prime Minister out of the country. 
Amidst this violence we pray for peace,

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