Father’s Day Prayer – It’s Complicated
Father’s Day Prayer – It’s Complicated (June 16th, 2024)
Lord, today is Father’s Day, and we confess that Father’s Day is complicated. We hold before you today all men, women, and children in our families, our church, our communities, and our spheres of influence near and far. We hold each one in the light of your presence. Firstly, we thank you, God, that you are the Father of us all, our good and gracious heavenly Father, creator and sustainer of all, and the source of goodness, truth, and beauty.
We pray for those who are or have been fathers. We ask that you would help them to persevere, to love well, and to remain faithful, and we ask that you would refresh, encourage, and bless each one with strength, courage, peace, and joy.
We pray for those who have unfulfilled longings to be fathers. We ask that you would apply the salve of your healing presence to their hearts and minds, and we ask that you would give them the willingness to move and the courage to act as you direct them, as they entrust their hopes and dreams to you.
We pray for those who have fathers. We ask that you would saturate each of these relationships with healing and hope, generosity and joy, perseverance and peace, unity and understanding.
We pray for those who had fathers who are no longer with them. We ask for the comfort of your Holy Spirit to be known, felt, and experienced by each one, and for redemptive pathways to both remember and celebrate the gift of life.
We pray for those who did not have fathers. We ask that you would restore and revive places where disappointment and frustration have taken hold, and that you would provide pathways of healing for broken hearts.
We pray for all father relationships, whether good, bad, difficult, broken, close, distant, absent, or complicated. We ask that you would help each one to live and flourish freely in the abundance of your healing, salvation, grace, peace, and joy, for the greater glory of God!
We pray all these things in the precious name of Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.
