For families with young children at home: God, help mothers and fathers to creatively care for them. May single mothers and fathers be supported.
For parents who cannot stay home from work: We pray they will find adequate care for their children.
For workers facing layoffs and financial hardship: God, keep them from panic, and supply their needs. Protect them and their families from long term economic damage and guide them day by day and step by step through this crisis.
For the young and the strong: God, give them the necessary caution to keep them from unwittingly spreading this disease.
For students, whose courses of study are changing, whose future is uncertain: Father God, show them that while life is uncertain, they can place their trust in You.
For those who have lost loved ones to this disease: God of all comfort and Father of mercies may they experience the peace that passes understanding, as they rest in Christ Who is the resurrection and the Life.
Suggested Scripture verses –
Psalm 68:6; “God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.”
1 Timothy 5:8; “ But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”
Mark 10:14; “But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.”
Deuteronomy 4:40; “Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.”
Deuteronomy 12:28. “Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.”
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