100 Days of Prayer

Day 88 of 100

God of Everything, we come with hearts for the foreigner, stranger, and migrant, lifting them to you for sanctuary and connection with the Beloved.

Most High God, we ask that you do as your word promises, to give sanctuary, protection, and care to all who are migrating from their homelands to new places. We ask that you give us heaven’s blessing on our way. We ask that you allow us to encounter your gentle, generous presence everywhere and that we may know you when we see you! We ask for the blessing of lands, friends, loved ones, and happy godly connection to our new neighbors. We ask that your children lead the way, as salt and light and with open doors, hearts, and minds. We ask for welcome, connection, and integration. We ask that you help the nations see opportunities to welcome, feed, clothe, house, and in any way assist every migrant coming to their lands. We ask for comfort, peace, even joy as we journey and live among new people and new customs.

We ask you to block and destroy all attempts to harm us or frustrate our paths through discrimination and intolerance. We ask that you reveal ugly enmity and bigotry and remove it and those who wield it from power and from our paths. Please bless all migrants to be a happy blessing to the lands where they go. Please bless all the lands and people they influence to bless them back with equity, access, inclusion, and belonging.

Thank you for being the God who stands up for the weak, the lost, and the powerless. Thank you for being the ultimate sanctuary for all who migrate to new places within your creation. Thank you for turning hearts and minds to you and meeting us wherever we are. Thank you for bringing new people to diversify and enrich our lands. Thank you for your children who obey you and provide welcome and sanctuary for your people. Thank you for protecting all who cross borders. Thank you for lifting up a standard against anyone who dares to thwart the promise of your protection, the will for your love, or the people who you have called to help or welcome migrants. Thank you for revealing and removing the bigotry and hypocrisy that threatens to corrupt and hurt your people and their divine destinies. Thank you that you bless and protect all who bless your people.

In the name of the Father of all nations, the Son who came to save all people, and the Holy Spirit who dwells among everyone without regard to place of birth, we declare your promises for migrants are yes and it is done!