Kenyan constitutional referendum

The vote is Wednesday. There are several controversial features. The church is not speaking as one voice. There is some division along tribal lines. There is a fear of post-referendum unrest.

Colossians 1:15-20 NIV
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Dear Father,
We claim the shed blood of Christ Jesus over the church in Kenya and the referendum. By the fullness of Your presence through Him, make peace, we pray. Amen.

A Prayer to Begin the Day

The Rev. Dr. Kendall Harmon posted this at TitusOneNine on August 2.

Into thy hands, O Lord, we commend ourselves this day. Let thy presence be with us to its close. Strengthen us to remember that in whatsoever good work we do we are serving thee. Give us a diligent and watchful spirit, that we may seek in all things to know thy will, and knowing it, gladly to perform it, to the honour and glory of thy name; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Kendall did not include a source, but a Google search suggests it is excerpted from this book: The local church in a global era: reflections for a new century, By Max L. Stackhouse, Tim Dearborn, Scott Paeth. See p. 89, “A Morning Prayer from the Gelasian Sacramentary.”

Read more about the Gelasian Sacramentary here.