Today in our prayers for the people of Solomon Islands.

Prayer for Peace

Cliff Carlson

O God, we come again to pray for peace. Help us to be sensitive to your spirit as it calls us to be instruments of peacemaking. May we be touched by an understanding of what you are calling us to do.

We feel inadequate as we try to bring peace to persons or communities in conflict. We even sense a lack of peace within ourselves. We pray but feel we have no effect in situations of distress. We pray for peace, but it is not there.

However, we know you continue to ask us to be instruments of peace in places where we find ourselves. You want us to cause peace to grow in places where we are. We need your insight as we try to do your will, as we try to let peace grow and as we give you the honor and the glory.

Help us to see how we can be peacemakers. We pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.