Prayer for the immigrant and refugee

Dear Father of the fatherless,

I pray your compassion and mercy over the world’s immigrants and refugees.
May I always welcome the lost and weary in Jesus’ name.
Give me courage to defend the fatherless,
to assist the widow,
to welcome the stranger,
to offering healing to the sick,
to rescue the oppressed.

May we never see nationality, creed, or culture
because You don’t see them.
You see people–
hungry, afraid, terrorized, hurting,
displaced, marginalized, misunderstood, resourceless.
These are problems created by humans against humans.
And these problems interfere with seeing You.

Convict me when that’s all I see.
Use me to show Jesus’ love through what I do and what I say.
Keep me from political agendas instead of prayerful purpose.

If I truly want to be like You,
this is how I will behave
and what I will believe.

“Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor.”–Ezekiel 22:7

“And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”–Micah 6:8