Prayers 7th September 2026, Oraciones, 7 de septiembre de 2026, Doa 7 September 2026, Prières du 7 septembre 2026, Молитвы 7 сентября 2026 года, صلوات ٧ سبتمبر ٢٠٢٦

 
 
We stand against hunger
Against injustice
And we hope for a better world
Where everyone is housed
And fed
A world of abundance
Give us wisdom and courage
On our journey
 
Song “There is an everlasting kindness”
https://youtu.be/fMR85VnEluM
 
You entrusted the earth to us
And we have destroyed it
The forests are burning
Animals are dying
Our world is sick
Forgive us
Restore our vision and help us to act bravely to save this precious world
 
We say the Lord’s Prayer in our own language
 
Reading Psalm 49
 
People, despite their wealth, do not endure;
    they are like the beasts that perish.
¹³ This is the fate of those who trust in themselves,
    and of their followers, who approve their sayings. 
¹⁴ They are like sheep and are destined to die;
    death will be their shepherd
    (but the upright will prevail over them in the morning).
Their forms will decay in the grave,
    far from their princely mansions.
 
We pray for Nepal, for Iran, for US to stop bombing Iran, for Gaza, Lebanon, for Israel to stop killing Palestinians and Lebanese, for Ukraine, for Russia to stop bombing Ukraine, for Sudan, Afghanistan, Congo, Venezuela, Cuba, Canada, Greenland; for work to halt climate change, for refugees and asylum seekers, for the homeless, the hungry, the distressed. Spirit of the Living God be beside us at this time. In Jesus Name we pray. Amen
 
Song “Create in me”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noUeQQ64Q1I
 
This is the day that God has made
I will rejoice and be glad in it
I will not offer to God
Offerings that cost me nothing
I will go in Peace
To love and serve the Lord
 
Nos oponemos al hambre
Contra la injusticia
Y anhelamos un mundo mejor
Donde todos tengan un techo
Cumplimos con nuestro deber
Un mundo de abundancia
Danos sabiduría y valor
En nuestro camino
 
Canción: «Hay una bondad eterna»
https://youtu.be/fMR85VnEluM
 
Nos confiaste la tierra
Y la hemos destruido
Los bosques arden
Los animales mueren
Nuestro mundo está enfermo
Perdónanos
Restaura nuestra visión y ayúdanos a actuar con valentía para salvar este precioso mundo
 
Rezamos el Padrenuestro en nuestro idioma
 
Lectura del Salmo 49
 
A pesar de su riqueza, el hombre no perdura;
 
es como las bestias que perecen.
 
13 Este es el destino de los que confían en sí mismos,
 
y de sus seguidores, que aprueban sus palabras.
 
14 Son como ovejas destinadas a morir;
La muerte será su pastor
 
(pero los justos prevalecerán sobre ellos por la mañana).
 
Sus cuerpos se pudrirán en la tumba,
 
lejos de sus mansiones principescas.
 
Oramos por Nepal, por Irán, para que Estados Unidos deje de bombardear Irán, por Gaza, Líbano, para que Israel deje de matar palestinos y libaneses, por Ucrania, para que Rusia deje de bombardear Ucrania, por Sudán, Afganistán, Congo, Venezuela, Cuba, Canadá, Groenlandia; por la lucha contra el cambio climático, por los refugiados y solicitantes de asilo, por los sin techo, los hambrientos, los afligidos. Espíritu del Dios viviente, acompáñanos en este tiempo. En el nombre de Jesús oramos. Amén.
 
Canción "Crea en mí"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noUeQQ64Q1I
 
Este es el día que Dios ha hecho
Me alegraré y me regocijaré en él
No ofreceré a Dios
Ofrendas que no me cuesten nada
Iré en paz
Para amar y servir al Señor
 
 
Kami menentang kelaparan
Menentang ketidakadilan
Dan kami berharap untuk dunia yang lebih baik
Di mana setiap orang memiliki tempat tinggal
Diberi makan
Dunia yang berkelimpahan
Berikan kami hikmat dan keberanian
Dalam perjalanan kami
 
Lagu "Ada kebaikan yang kekal"
https://youtu.be/fMR85VnEluM
 
Engkau mempercayakan bumi kepada kami
Dan kami telah menghancurkannya
Hutan-hutan terbakar
Hewan-hewan mati
Dunia kita sakit
Ampuni kami
Pulihkan visi kami dan bantulah kami untuk bertindak berani untuk menyelamatkan dunia yang berharga ini
 
Kami mengucapkan Doa Bapa Kami dalam bahasa kami sendiri
 
Bacaan Mazmur 49
 
Manusia, meskipun kaya, tidak bertahan;
 
mereka seperti binatang yang binasa.
 
13 Inilah nasib orang-orang yang percaya pada diri mereka sendiri,
 
dan pengikut mereka, yang menyetujui perkataan mereka.
 
14 Mereka seperti domba dan ditakdirkan untuk mati;
 
Kematian akan menjadi gembala mereka
(tetapi orang-orang yang benar akan menang atas mereka di pagi hari).
Tubuh mereka akan membusuk di dalam kubur,
jauh dari rumah-rumah besar mereka.
 
Kami berdoa untuk Nepal, untuk Iran, agar AS berhenti membom Iran, untuk Gaza, Lebanon, agar Israel berhenti membunuh warga Palestina dan Lebanon, untuk Ukraina, agar Rusia berhenti membom Ukraina, untuk Sudan, Afghanistan, Kongo, Venezuela, Kuba, Kanada, Greenland; untuk upaya menghentikan perubahan iklim, untuk pengungsi dan pencari suaka, untuk tunawisma, orang lapar, orang yang menderita. Roh Allah yang Hidup menyertai kami saat ini. Dalam nama Yesus kami berdoa. Amin
 
Lagu "Ciptakan di dalam Aku"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noUeQQ64Q1I
 
Inilah hari yang telah Allah ciptakan
Aku akan bersukacita dan bergembira di dalamnya
Aku tidak akan mempersembahkan kepada Allah
Persembahan yang tidak membutuhkan pengorbanan dariku
Aku akan pergi dengan damai
Untuk mengasihi dan melayani Tuhan
 
 
 
Nous nous dressons contre la faim
 
Contre l'injustice
 
Et nous espérons un monde meilleur
 
Où chacun a un toit
 
Nourri selon son serment
 
Un monde d'abondance
 
Donne-nous sagesse et courage
 
Sur notre chemin
 
Chant « Il y a une bonté éternelle »https://youtu.be/fMR85VnEluM
 
Tu nous as confié la terre
 
Et nous l'avons détruite
 
Les forêts brûlent
 
Les animaux meurent
 
Notre monde est malade
 
Pardonne-nous
 
Rends-nous la vue et aide-nous à agir avec courage pour sauver ce monde précieux
 
Nous récitons le Notre Père dans notre langue
 
Lecture du Psaume 49
 
L'homme, malgré ses richesses, ne persévère pas ;
 
il est comme les bêtes qui périssent.
 
13 Tel est le sort de ceux qui se confient en eux-mêmes,
 
et de ceux qui les suivent, qui approuvent leurs paroles.
 
14 Ils sont comme des brebis, voués à mourir ;
 
La mort sera leur berger
 
(mais les justes l'emporteront sur eux au matin).
 
Leurs corps se décomposeront dans la tombe,
 
loin de leurs demeures princières.
 
Nous prions pour le Népal, pour l'Iran, pour que les États-Unis cessent de bombarder l'Iran, pour Gaza, le Liban, pour qu'Israël cesse de tuer des Palestiniens et des Libanais, pour l'Ukraine, pour que la Russie cesse de bombarder l'Ukraine, pour le Soudan, l'Afghanistan, le Congo, le Venezuela, Cuba, le Canada, le Groenland ; pour que des efforts soient déployés pour enrayer le changement climatique, pour les réfugiés et les demandeurs d'asile, pour les sans-abri, les affamés, les personnes en détresse. Que l'Esprit du Dieu vivant soit avec nous en ce moment. Au nom de Jésus, nous prions. Amen.
 
Chant « Crée en moi »
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noUeQQ64Q1I
 
Voici le jour que Dieu a fait
 
Je me réjouirai et serai dans l'allégresse
 
Je n'offrirai pas à Dieu
 
des offrandes qui ne me coûtent rien
 
J'irai en paix
Pour aimer et servir le Seigneur
 
 
 
Мы противостоим голоду
Против несправедливости
И мы надеемся на лучший мир
Где каждый будет обеспечен жильем
Клятва о кормлении
Мир изобилия
Даруй нам мудрость и мужество
В нашем путешествии
 
Песня «Есть вечная милость»
https://youtu.be/fMR85VnEluM
 
Ты доверил нам землю
А мы её уничтожили
Леса горят
Животные умирают
Наш мир болен
Прости нас
Восстанови наше видение и помоги нам действовать смело, чтобы спасти этот драгоценный мир
 
Мы читаем молитву Господню на нашем родном языке
 
Чтение Псалма 49
 
Люди, несмотря на своё богатство, не выдерживают;
они подобны зверям, которые погибают.
 
13 Такова участь тех, кто уповает на себя,
и последователей их, которые одобряют их слова.
 
14 Они подобны овцам и обречены на смерть;
смерть будет их пастырем,
 
но праведники восторжествуют над ними утром.
 
Их тела истлеют в могиле,
вдали от их княжеских обителей.
 
Мы молимся за Непал, за Иран, за прекращение бомбардировок Ирана со стороны США, за Газу, Ливан, за прекращение убийств палестинцев и ливанцев со стороны Израиля, за Украину, за прекращение бомбардировок Украины со стороны России, за Судан, Афганистан, Конго, Венесуэлу, Кубу, Канаду, Гренландию; за работу по борьбе с изменением климата, за беженцев и лиц, ищущих убежища, за бездомных, голодных, нуждающихся. Пусть Дух Живого Бога будет с нами в это время. Во имя Иисуса мы молимся. Аминь
 
Песня «Создай во мне»
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noUeQQ64Q1I
 
Это день, который сотворил Бог.
Я буду радоваться и веселиться в нем.
Я не буду приносить Богу жертвы, которые ничего мне не стоят.
Я пойду с миром.
Чтобы любить и служить Господу.
 
 
نقف ضد الجوع
ضد الظلم
ونرجو عالماً أفضل
حيث يجد الجميع مأوى
حيث ينعم الجميع بالطعام
حيث ينعم الجميع بالرضا
عالمٌ يفيض بالخيرات
امنحنا الحكمة والشجاعة
في مسيرتنا
 
ترنيمة "هناك رحمة أبدية"
https://youtu.be/fMR85VnEluM
 
لقد أوكلت إلينا الأرض
فأفسدناها
الغابات تحترق
الحيوانات تموت
عالمنا مريض
اغفر لنا
أعد إلينا بصيرتنا وساعدنا على التحلي بالشجاعة لإنقاذ هذا العالم الثمين
 
نردد صلاة الرب بلغتنا
 
قراءة المزمور ٤٩
 
الناس، رغم ثرواتهم، لا يدومون؛
فهم كالبهائم التي تفنى.
 
١٣ هذا هو مصير الذين يتكلون على أنفسهم،
 
وأتباعهم الذين يوافقون على أقوالهم.
 
١٤ هم كالغنم، مصيرهم الموت؛
 
الموت سيكون راعيهم
 
(لكن الصالحين سيغلبونهم في الصباح).
ستتحلل أجسادهم في القبر،
 
بعيدًا عن قصورهم الفخمة.
 
نصلي من أجل نيبال، ومن أجل إيران، ومن أجل أن تكف الولايات المتحدة عن قصف إيران، ومن أجل غزة، ولبنان، ومن أجل أن تكف إسرائيل عن قتل الفلسطينيين واللبنانيين، ومن أجل أوكرانيا، ومن أجل أن تكف روسيا عن قصف أوكرانيا، ومن أجل السودان، وأفغانستان، والكونغو، وفنزويلا، وكوبا، وكندا، وغرينلاند؛ من أجل العمل على وقف تغير المناخ، ومن أجل اللاجئين وطالبي اللجوء، ومن أجل المشردين، والجياع، والمحتاجين. روح الله الحيّ، كن معنا في هذا الوقت. باسم يسوع نصلي. آمين.
 
ترنيمة "اخلق فيّ"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noUeQQ64Q1I
 
هذا هو اليوم الذي صنعه الله
سأفرح وأبتهج فيه
لن أقدم لله
قرابين لا تكلفني شيئًا
سأذهب بسلام
لأحب الرب وأخدمه

Ezekiel 33v7-11

Prophets are not easy people to live with. Gerard Hughes SJ has a story about inviting Jesus for Sunday tea. To start with its ok but after a while it gets uncomfortable because youre always being challenged. I suspect John the Baptist was very difficult too. Of course prophets see the bigger picture. 
Ezekiel was a prophet. He was a priest born in Jerusalem and in the 6^th century BC was exiled with thousands of other Hebrews to Babylon when Nebuchadnezzar invaded and destroyed the temple in Jerusalem. Ezekiel knew that the behaviour of the Hebrews was connected to what would happen next. He was like a moral policeman, trying to bring people back to God through his striking imagery and his accurate knowledge and predictions. His tomb is in Iraq.

In Ezekiel chapter 33 we hear of the prophets responsibility
33:7So you, mortal, I have made a sentinel for the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.
33:8If I say to the wicked, "O wicked ones, you shall surely die," and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from their ways, the wicked shall die in their iniquity, but their blood I will require at your hand.
33:9But if you warn the wicked to turn from their ways and they do not turn from their ways, the wicked shall die in their iniquity, but you will have saved your life.
33:10Now you, mortal, say to the house of Israel: Thus you have said: "Our transgressions and our sins weigh upon us, and we waste away because of them; how then can we live?"
33:11Say to them: As I live, says the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from their ways and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?

In the 70s there was a book written by the scientist James Lovelock about the Gaia hypothesis, basically emphasising the interconnectivity of all the earths living organisms and the balance between them. It was largely ignored. Except for the butterfly affect whereby if a butterfly flaps its wings somewhere it can set off a string of events elsewhere, a theory begun by the mathematician Edward Lorenz. 

 

In the mid 1990s I had a student from Tuvalu on placement with me. Tuvalu is an island between Hawaii and Australia, It’s population is 100% Christian. I took my student to speak to a junior school in Selly Oak. She told of the devastating effect of rising sea levels and climate change on her island and that the rising ocean would eventually flood her home. The islanders at the time had a prayer vigil going 24hours a day. She was a messenger for her people.  That was 30 years ago. 

 

Some ten years later when I was working in Dudley I used to preach on climate change but one of the senior stewards at a Methodist Church in Netherton thought it was a load of bunkum and told me so. And I stopped. 

 

In 2008 I teamed up with Friends of the Earth in Birmingham and became an ambassador for climate change. I wanted to run a Green Faith Day for Dudley in Brierley Hill. We had speakers from all the major faiths talking about climate change. The council refused to give us any money but the Sikh community gave us lunch and we had a speaker from Operation Noah Mark Dowd who was provided free. It was a great success. 

 

As a result of this success, in 2009 the Dudley council asked me to chair Dudley Borough’s Climate Change Task Group.  We had representatives from the major environmental charities on board and staffing from the council. We were working on 4 main areas; 1. Increasing temperatures and resulting fires 2. Flooding 3. Tropical diseases from rising temperatures 4. Educating the public about lowering their carbon footprint. We gave out long life light bulbs and leaflets at the main boat festivals in Dudley. In the early part of 2010, I was asked to see the CEO of Dudley Council,  Mr Papadopalos. He told me that the incoming government would be less interested in climate change so they were cutting the Task Group budget. And so it proved to be the case! That was 16 years ago.

 

Ezekiel was a watchman for Israel. Today we have many watch men/women warning us of the devastating results from ignoring the climate scientists and carrying on as if business was as usual. It is not. This summer has brought home to many people the reality of climate change that is already a devastating reality for many people. We have reached a tipping point. It concerns our children and grandchildren and the world they inherit. 

 

Ezekiel speaks of turning wicked men from their wickedness. Today we have men who have spent years trying to stop the world listening to the climate scientists because of money from selling fossil fuels. This continues to the present day. It is the reason the UK is so far behind other countries in developing sustainable energy from the sun, the wind and waves. Ezekiel says we have a responsibility to tell the wicked to turn from their ways. I believe he is right. 

 

The passage in Matthew 18 speaks of going to your brother who has offended you and speaking to him. If he doesn’t listen you take someone else with you. It’s a good principle until you are dealing with people who do not want to change because they are paid not to listen. 

 

Kosuke Koyama talked about the devastating effect of the two atomic bombs in Japan.

"For the first three days after her unconditional surrender, Japanese people felt repentant for what Japan had done to its neighbours and to heaven. In a state of shock, the nation repented. In repentance, time stopped flowing... I realized then, even though only vaguely, that what Christian baptism signifies can transcend even the divisions of humanity brought about by war. Being baptized I affirmed, in the midst of the context of international war and violence, the universality of the gospel message - the message of forgiveness…Hiroshima has done a rough job of levelling all to the same plane. None higher. None lower…Standing on the same plane, we now say together, "And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors" (Matt. 6:12).

 

Sadly there are many Christians who have been taught that climate change is not real and they are supporting the continuing use of fossil fuels. It’s interesting how we respect science when we are facing a pandemic but not when we are facing the destruction of the planet. So we need to tell our leaders that they need to act. This is our responsibility as custodians of Gods earth. The science has been there for decades.  

 

I believe it is time we turned to our elected representatives and told them that this destruction of the earth through heat waves, flooding, melted glaciers has gone on long enough and for the sake of our children we need to change direction. And we need to do it now. 

 

There is a film you can watch called The Welcome Table and there are poets like the Hot Poets you can follow. You can also follow Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace. You can learn much more about this by watching the film The Peoples Climate Emergency which is being shown in the UK at many venues. https://www.youtube.com/@nebriefing 

 

The plight is not just about little islands like Tuvalu or the people of Nepal but of our families our communities which is in the balance. We are one world interconnected so what happens in Tuvalu, in Nepal affects us. The clarion call, the warning for decades has been to turn away from fossil fuels and to renewables to stop the heating of the planet and disturbing the balance of the ecosystem. 

 

This is why we must act. 

We must continue to live simply, recycle, eat less meat and to encourage one another. Our journey now is different, like Hiroshima, we have crossed a line. 

 

We can send letters to our MPs, to the Prime minister, to the papers, we can post on social media. We are the watchmen/women of Gods creation. Everyone has a part to play. We can really change the outcome of our situation. If we don’t millions of people will die. And as the passage in Ezekiel says there is no pleasure in people’s deaths. We need to turn from our destructive ways and we need this to be the number one priority for the sake of our future generations. 

You entrusted the earth to us

And we have destroyed it

The forests are burning

Animals are dying

Our world is sick

Forgive us

Restore our vision and help us to act bravely to save this precious world, Amen