Dear Lord, I pray for breakthrough with the coronavirus — whether it’s through a vaccine, holistic medicine, a miracle, whatever form eradication may take, please send it our way. I thank your for your faithfulness throughout this past year. For all those who have had covid and recovered. For all those people working to bring an end to this sickness, both through service and research. I thank you that our bodies are fearfully and wonderfully made and more complex than we can even imagine. I pray that you would protect us physically, emotionally, spiritually, financially, and socially, from all the effects of coronavirus on our world.
I pray for the economy here in Abu Dhabi, that it would recover and rebound. That the leadership would take steps to make tourism possible once again. That jobs that have been lost would be regained and that those who have been on reduced pay would be made whole again. I pray for peace for those who are living with the uncertainty of whether their visas will be renewed or if they will lose their jobs. For those who are trying to support a family back in their home country and don’t see a future without this source of income. I pray that you would be their encourager and provider and that you will open and close doors to bring them closer to you and meet their spiritual needs along with their physical needs.
I pray for Expo 2020 this fall, that it would be able to go ahead as was originally planned. I pray that as the government opens the borders for other nations to come and visit and as they are in the global spotlight, that human rights initiatives and religious tolerance that has been started would continue and flourish. I pray that the churches that are all waiting for approval to be recognized by the government would have their applications fly through the process, that all the needed stamps would be issued, and that there would not be limits put on where and when they can meet. Please open all avenues for ministry to these congregations and I pray that they would bring the Good News to this country in an uninhibited way.
I pray for breakthrough in personal relationships. That we would be free to interact with each other outside of our immediate family unit. That gathering in each other’s homes would once again be allowed and that mandated isolation would end. I thank you that we have been able to be with others at work and at school, but I pray that we’d be able to open our homes once again. I pray that those who are looking for personal connection will be drawn to our family and that we’d be able to introduce them to your family. I thank you for the ministry opportunities that we have been able to have over this past year and I pray that you continue to open our eyes to those in need. Please show us how we can be your hands and feet in spiritual and physical ways.
Help us to not grow weary in doing good and help us continue on so that we may reap a harvest at the right time (Galatians 6:9)