A Prayer for Our Nation: Life.Church Midweek

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.”