7. April 2019

O Lord God, we come before you in humility recognizing that we have sinned against you by governing this land with laws that oppress and cause much harm and suffer­ing to people. We have actively followed a system based on neither love nor justice. We have resorted to violence to maintain this system, and this in turn is leading to more violence. Forgive us folly. // We pray that you will deliver us and bring change to our situation. If it is your will to remove from office those rulers who have misgover­ned and oppressed and who have misused the authority with which they have been in­vested, we ask for courage to do our part in this and wisdom to choose leaders who will obey your will, enact just laws and eradicate the evils and divisions that we have allowed to have dominion over us. This we ask in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.