Yesterday in The Darkness I spoke about how we live in a world full of many negative and dark influences. Today I want us to think about how this world can be moved out of darkness, so that the people of this world are free from suffering, free from pain and full of optimism and hope for the future.
We can only change this world through prayer and belief that our prayers can and will be answered. We need to ask God for help, because He alone can help us all. Please join in prayer as you watch and listen to the following video:
Beauty and Brokenness (Graham Kendrick)
Beauty for brokenness
Hope for despair
Lord, in your suffering
This is our prayer
Bread for the children
Justice, joy, peace
Sunrise to sunset
Your kingdom increase!
Shelter for fragile lives
Cures for their ills
Work for the craftsman
Trade for their skills
Land for the dispossessed
Rights for the weak
Voices to plead the cause
Of those who can’t speak
God of the poor
Friend of the weak
Give us compassion we pray
Melt our cold hearts
Let tears fall like rain
Come, change our love
From a spark to a flame
Refuge from cruel wars
Havens from fear
Cities for sanctuary
Freedoms to share
Peace to the killing-fields
Scorched earth to green
Christ for the bitterness
His cross for the pain
Rest for the ravaged earth
Oceans and streams
Plundered and poisoned
Our future, our dreams
Lord, end our madness
Carelessness, greed
Make us content with
The things that we need
Lighten our darkness
Breathe on this flame
Until your justice
Burns brightly again
Until the nations
Learn of your ways
Seek your salvation
And bring you their praise
The Distinct Dot 