Worship resources
— Prayers about water
World Water Day
Water is life
O God,
You are our God, we seek you, our souls thirst for you; our flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
We hunger and thirst for justice, we long for Shalom flowing like a clear, clean and endless stream.
Living water, we hope for a world where your kingdom covers the earth as the waters cover the sea.
Pour your Spirit on us, O God, rain on us and quench our thirst. Amen.
O God,
pour out on us the water of life
that we may quench our thirst
and draw our strength from you.
Help us to stand alongside those
who struggle daily for clean water
so that all may be
refreshed and renewed by your love.
Amen.
O God,
who brought water from stone
help us to remember,
that, for some, the earth is parched.
We lift to you
those who walk hours to distant streams,
who kneel beside rivers and ponds
to collect all that they will use
to drink, cook and wash.
We lift to you
those for whom clean water is
not a basic right but a luxury,
not a common good but an expensive commodity,
out of reach for those who cannot pay.
We cry out, O God,
against conflict and violence
that leaves crops to wither
and drives families from their homes
to lands where fresh, clean water is only a dream.
Today, may we,
for whom water flows
at the touch of a tap,
ponder what it means to thirst.
In this season of rebirth,
may we heed your call
to hunger and thirst
for righteousness —
and may your justice and righteousness
roll down as an everflowing stream.
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