{"id":48776,"date":"2022-10-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/?post_type=resource&p=48776"},"modified":"2022-09-01T22:11:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T03:11:44","slug":"pray-with-guatemala-october-30-2022","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/resource\/pray-with-guatemala-october-30-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Pray with Guatemala, October 30, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lectionary Selection:<\/strong> Luke 9:1-10<\/p>\n\n\n

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Prayers for Guatemala<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lord, you send us, like your first disciples, with authority and power to heal, confront evil and bring salvation. Make us clear and strong in your mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lord, we confess that we have allowed ourselves to be absorbed by obstacles. We are so heavy that we cannot even walk. Break our bonds. Make us unite with those who suffer, incarnating ourselves in pain to bring your salvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lord, we are afraid of those who oppose your cause. Help us to feel within us the life-giving force of love so that together, with good organization, we face the tyrants who hoard wealth and power that hurt so many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are yours, your people, here in this congregation that prays to you today and in Guatemala, where young people struggle to rescue your work. Join us to protect them and with their effort to raise awareness with those who stopped listening to your voice. Bring us closer to the deaf here to share a song that wakes them up and repairs your dreams of redemption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In your name, we pray, amen, so be it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Mission Stewardship Moment from Guatemala<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus sent his disciples on a mission with direct instructions to avoid the superfluous and to take a firm stand against antagonism. From this sending of the Lord, we must evaluate ourselves. Suppose we see the pain, and it does not move us. Indeed, we are burdened with many obstacles, be it a full wallet, a comfortable house, living without opposition, being well dressed, or being in a privileged situation. Maybe it does not hurt us that a river and the environmentalist who protected it are killed. We could be indifferent that people from our country monopolize land in other parts, displaces the locals, or kill them if they oppose the dispossession. If that is the case, we are too comfortable in this death system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If so, Jesus calls us and sends:<\/p>\n\n\n

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