{"id":18995,"date":"2025-10-18T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T23:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/?p=18995"},"modified":"2025-10-17T11:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:15:07","slug":"prayer-for-the-week-saturday-18th-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/2025\/10\/18\/prayer-for-the-week-saturday-18th-october-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer for the Week &#8211; Saturday 18th October 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/refugees-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18996\" src=\"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/refugees-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/refugees-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/refugees-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/refugees-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/refugees-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/refugees-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Return Home \u2013 Prayer for Hope<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>God Almighty, Abba Father, you are everywhere, you know when I lie down and when I get up<\/p>\n<p>You are God on the Mountain and God in the Valley You are All knowing, you are all seeing, your goodness follows me.<\/p>\n<p>Like the prodigal, I return home, I stare at the rubble my home has now become<\/p>\n<p>I look around bewildered, my neighbourhood is destroyed, my land is a strange place, no trees are growing. Screams of wailing and words of bitterness fill the air.<\/p>\n<p>As I look on all this destruction, I am filled with despair<\/p>\n<p>I cry, but no tears come, I shout but there is no sound<\/p>\n<p>How can I praise you in this strange land, with so much pain and loss. I ask you to free me from bitterness, help me to see you even in all this emptiness, for your mercies endure forever<\/p>\n<p>You can change my rags into radiant garments, and you welcome me. I fall at your feet, and I cry out My Lord and My God, let your peace rest upon me.<\/p>\n<p>Then I too will join in the song of my ancestors<\/p>\n<p>Free at last Free at Last, thank God almighty I am free at Last<\/p>\n<p>Amen \u2013<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Cynthia Bonds \u2013<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Ambassador -Methodist Women in Britain -London<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Prayer For people returning to their homeland after war<\/p>\n<p>May the Peace of Christ rest upon us All<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@mostafa_meraji?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">mostafa meraji<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/people-walking-at-rural-area-enIbuT4DayY?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Return Home \u2013 Prayer for Hope God Almighty, Abba Father, you are everywhere, you know when I lie down and when I get up You are God on the Mountain and God in the Valley You are All knowing, you are all seeing, your goodness follows me. Like the prodigal, I return home, I stare at the rubble my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer-for-the-week"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 04:27:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}