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A Prayer for Our Nation: Life.Church Midweek

Life.Church

2026-05-14

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Prayer for Unity & Healing in a Hurting Nation

Mid-week Online Gathering – Life.Church & People’s Church

Worship & Main Prayer Themes

  • “It Was a Death … My Victory” led by Pastor Steven Cole
    • focused on Jesus’ crucifixion, resurrection, and victory over the grave
  • “Heaven’s All Around Us” led by Pastor Steven Cole
    • reminded us of God’s nearness and ongoing help

Main petitions voiced throughout the meeting:

  • Racial healing, justice, and true unity across every skin color
  • Comfort for George Floyd’s family and all who mourn injustice
  • Wisdom and humility for civic and church leaders as they guide hurting people
  • Protection, provision, and physical healing in the ongoing COVID-19 crisis
  • A fresh outpouring of God’s love, peace, and Holy Spirit power on His Church
  • Repentance and the healing of our land (2 Chron 7:14; John 17; John 13)

Message / Teaching

  • Pastor Craig announced that the weekend sermon series will pause to address racial injustice directly, thanking Pastors Herbert & Tiffany for their guidance and perspective.

Sharing / Testimony

  • Pastors Herbert & Tiffany Cooper
    • Shared the deep pain their congregation is processing, including parents now forced to explain racial issues to their children.
    • Requested prayer for wisdom, humility, and constructive conversations in their city and church.

Prayer Requests

  • Family and friends of George Floyd—comfort in their tragic loss.
  • National racial reconciliation; an end to hatred, division, and injustice.
  • God’s wisdom for government, law-enforcement, and church leaders.
  • Unity among churches so the world will know us by our love (John 13).
  • Congregations of Life.Church and People’s Church—compassion, understanding, and a heart for justice.
  • Physical healing for anyone sick, including those affected by COVID-19.
  • Financial provision for individuals and families facing hardship during the pandemic.
  • Miracles that display God’s power and draw people to Christ.

Urgent Prayer Update

  • Ongoing national grief and unrest following the killing of George Floyd; meeting focused intercession on this crisis.

Repeated Emphases

  • “Unity,” “love,” and “healing” were prayed repeatedly by every leader.
  • Call to be “the answer to Jesus’ prayer in John 17—that we would be one.”
  • Ongoing reminder to both “pray and act” for justice and reconciliation.
  • Assurance that “heaven is all around us”—God is near even in crisis.

Closing

  • Pastor Amy led a corporate prayer of repentance, asking God to “heal our land” and keep the Church a light of love.
  • Pastors Herbert & Tiffany thanked Life.Church for standing together, then closed with Life.Church’s familiar charge:
    “Whoever finds God … finds life.”
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