A Prayer for Africa

I stole this prayer from a book I was reading. It really moved me and it can move you too. So feel free to pray these things for our bro's and sis's of Africa as well.

"We pray that you lay your hands on our brothers and sisters of Africa: the mothers, fathers, daughters and sons. We pray that you touch their lives with your presence, your love, and your grace. We pray that you heal their hearts and minds with the gift of Life.

We pray that you heal the church. We pray that you touch the hearts, minds and souls of all religious communicates with your compelling hand of truth. We pray that you heal our fear, our anxiety and our prejudices that we might live lives of faith, hope and love to touch those suffering from HIV/AIDS.

We pray that you lift up our brothers and sisters of Africa from the mire of pain, horror and disease. We pray that you offer a gift of salvation for those who are dying, for those already dead. We pray for the living, that you bless them with Hope of the Light of Love.

We pray for doctors, nurses, caregivers and researchers. We pray that you offer them wisdom, compassion and faith. We pray that you bless them with an intellect to boldly imagine a world without AIDS, a vision for a new generation of medical care, and an unconditional love for those who are dying without a hope for treatment.

We pray that you will provide for our brothers and sisters of Africa. We pray that you will comfort them in their time of need. We pray that you will provide food for the hungry, clothes for the naked, a home for the homeless, and medical treatment for those who cannot afford such a luxury. We pray that you will provide your orphans with good families that will raise them in love.

We pray for our governments, our pharmaceutical companies, our corporations, and our religious communities. We pray that each institution finds it in their hearts and minds to offer monetary support by way of funding, medical treatments, and community-oriented aid. We pray that these institutions advance in bringing "the kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven" by dropping the dept, providing aid and promoting trade in Africa.

We pray that you rain compassion on our brothers and sisters of Africa. We pray that you instill in the hearts of complacent Americans a vicarious understanding of the suffering: mentally, physically, socially, and emotionally of those dying with AIDS in Africa. We pray compassion on the cold hearts of those who cling to ignorance and indifference. We pray for compassion on those who are compelled to combat the virus, the suffering and the Death. We pray for compassion for the world as we attempt to wage a war against a deadly disease that is killing our brothers and sisters. We pray for compassion for life itself.

O God, Hear our prayers."

From the book "The aWAKE PROJECT"

AMEN. What an amazing prayer! Honestly, if we pray expectantly that God would give us a world without AIDS He will answer. That is the prayer of my heart. But until this virus is destroyed I pray for those affected and effected. For compassion, comfort, hope and life!

Lord Jesus provide.