This Advent season we want to focus our collective prayers on peace as we wait with great expectation the celebration of the birth of Christ and anticipate that He will come again. Each day of Advent we will post and disseminate prayers for peace to guide our collective petitions for God to intervene in our human circumstances. We will also share a litany that can be used during Advent services and ask Christians across the country and globally to sign a “I’m A Peacemaker” Pledge.
Daily Prayers
Advent Prayer Campaign – December 25
I have said this to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you face persecution, but take courage: I have conquered the world! John 16:33 (NRSVue)
Advent Prayer Campaign – December 24
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 (NRSVue)
Advent Prayer Campaign – December 23
And waking up, he rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Be silent! Be still!” Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. Mark 4:39 (NRSVue)
Advent Prayer Campaign – December 22
For a child has been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his shoulders, and he is named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 (NRSVue)
Advent Prayer Campaign – December 21
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:7 (NRSVue)
Advent Prayer Campaign – December 20
For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed, says the Lord, who has compassion on you. Isaiah 54:10 (NRSVue)
Advent Prayer Campaign – December 19
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God – Matthew 5:9 (NRSVue)
Advent Prayer Campaign – December 18
Then they also will answer, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not take care of you?’ Then he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to
Advent Prayer Campaign – December 17
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the
Advent Prayer Campaign – December 16
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Colossians 3:15 (NRSVue)
Advent Prayer Campaign – December 15
Those of steadfast mind you keep in peace, in peace because they trust in you.
Isaiah 26:3 (NRSVue)
Advent Prayer Campaign – December 14
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing….May the God of peace himself sanctify you entirely, and may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-17,23 (NRSVue)
Advent Prayer Campaign – December 13
And let the peace of Christ[g] rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Colossians 3:15 (NRSVue)
Advent Prayer Campaign – December 12
Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with all of you.
2 Thessalonians 3:16 (NRSVue)
Advent Prayer Campaign – December 11
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:7 (NRSVue)
Advent Prayer Campaign – December 10
Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will kiss each other.
Psalm 85:10 (NRSVue)
Advent Prayer Campaign – December 9
My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.
John 10:27-28 (NRSVue)
Advent Prayer Campaign – December 8
God of hope and peace, we acknowledge Your peace is beyond our understanding, and yet still ask, “How?” How is peace possible in a world where skin color, land, and possessions separate us?
Advent Prayer Campaign – December 7
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:7 (NRSVue)
Advent Prayer Campaign – December 6
Jesus said to them, “The light is in you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. If you walk in the darkness, you do not know where you are going.
John 12:35 (NRSVue)
Advent Prayer Campaign – December 5
For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us
Ephesians 2:14 (NRSVue)
Advent Prayer Campaign – December 4
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Psalm 34:14 (NRSVue)
Advent Prayer Campaign – December 3
For a child has been born for us, a son given to us;
Isaiah 6:9 (NRSVue)