{"id":4613,"date":"2010-07-04T22:31:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T11:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=4613"},"modified":"2010-07-04T22:46:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T11:46:59","slug":"prayer-for-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/07\/04\/prayer-for-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer for Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The previous 3 articles\u00a0fuel my prayers\u00a0for our three tiers of government: municipal, state and federal.<\/p>\n<p>The Anglican Church in Tasmania has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicantas.org.au\/index.php?item=file&amp;target=prayer_diary\">a monthly Diocesan Prayer Diary<\/a>. Each day\u00a0it includes prayer for different tiers and\u00a0members of government. Today (day 4),\u00a0we included prayer for members from the electorate of Bass: Federal &#8211; Sid Sidebottom\u00a0and State &#8211; Brenton Best, Adam Brooks, Bryan Green, Paul O&#8217;Halloran and Jeremy Rockliff. These members were included in our prayers\u00a0at\u00a0St Peter&#8217;s Oatlands where I attended today as part of my prayer pilgrimage.<\/p>\n<p>The following is <strong>a prayer for Government<\/strong> which is based on one from <em>An Australian Prayer Book (1978)<\/em> page 91.<\/p>\n<address>Most gracious God, ruler of all the nations,<\/address>\n<address>we pray for this governance of this municipality\/state\/nation, and <\/address>\n<address>especially\u00a0for the members of the\u00a0. . . electorate: \u00a0. . . <\/address>\n<address>Direct and prosper all their work<\/address>\n<address>to the advancement of your glory,<\/address>\n<address>and the safety and welfare of this country;<\/address>\n<address>so that peace and happiness, truth and justice,<\/address>\n<address>may be established among us;<\/address>\n<address>through Jesus Christ our Lord.\u00a0 Amen. <\/address>\n<address><\/address>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/06\/11\/praying-4-parliamentary-leaders\/\">Praying 4 Parliamentary Leaders<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 and\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/07\/04\/prayer-pilgrimage-week-6\/\">Prayer Pilgrimage\u00a0&#8211; week #6<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The previous 3 articles\u00a0fuel my prayers\u00a0for our three tiers of government: municipal, state and federal. The Anglican Church in Tasmania has a monthly Diocesan Prayer Diary. Each day\u00a0it includes prayer for different tiers and\u00a0members of government. Today (day 4),\u00a0we included &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/07\/04\/prayer-for-government\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4613"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4624,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions\/4624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}