We want to spend time growing in awareness of the brokenness and the need for healing and justice. It begins in crying out to God. Asking the Spirit to show us our own sin, show us the sin of our systems, and to show us the evil at work. This is time for Lamenting, Mourning, and Listening to today's pain. This can also be a time for marching, protesting, and declaring the scope and depth of what is felt and what is broken.
To facilitate meaningful time of prayer, we encourage you to use the the podcast United? We Pray. Though recorded in 2017, it continues to be deeply relevant and informative. These conversation between Trillia Newbell, Isaac Adams, and a guest cover important topics on race, our country, and the Church before praying together on those topics. It is powerful and they will will lead us in prayer really well.
Also, you may be wondering how you can structure your times of prayer or how prayer is a good action step when the problem is so deep. Read this post from Brad.
Also, Danielle Bowditch has made this playlist to help us enter this time of prayer.
Day 1: June 12
On the first day we pray for racial reconciliation in our country, we pray for God to give us a heart for prayer, and we ask for the Spirit of God to lead us in these eight days. Use this podcast to guide you prayer. Listen
Day 2: June 13
On this day, we want to pray and meditate specifically on the the racial strife within the Church in America. Use this podcast as a gateway into prayer. Listen
Day 3: June 14
On this day, we're praying for the bridge builders and those who have been working and leading the Church toward reconciliation. Use this podcast as a guide into prayer. Listen
Day 4: June 15
On this day, we're praying we're praying against violence and white supremacy. We're praying for God to tear down evil. Use this podcast as a pathway to prayer. Listen
Day 5: June 16
On this day, we're asking God for forgiveness, wisdom, discernment, and understanding in conversations about race. Use this podcast as a pathway to pray: Listen.
Day 6: June 17
Pray for the quiet, unannounced, and small voices and actions that lead to unity. Use this podcast to lead you into prayer. Listen.
Day 7: June 18
We pray for courage to look into the past. We pray a resolve to understand the history of racism and the faithfulness of God to redeem it through the gospel. Listen
Day 8: June 19
Pray for grace, wisdom, and compassion as we begin have conversations to lead to understanding. Pray for us to be people who seek to believe the gospel and live the gospel in all areas of life. Use this podcast as a guide into prayer today. Listen