#BTColumn – A prayer for Barbados

The views and opinions expressed by the author(s) do not represent the official position of Barbados TODAY.

by Rev David Durant, J.P.
Restoration Ministries Int’l

Our God and Heavenly Father, we the citizens, residents and visitors in this Island of Barbados, desperately need your divine intervention in this moment of crisis.

We pray for our nation at this time when so many are fearful, COVID-19 positive, anxious, suffering and feeling hopeless.

Give our leaders wisdom and understanding of the times. Clothe our doctors, all health and medical personnel and every frontline worker with strength, courage, grace and Your peace. Those who have lost loved ones, grant them strength and comfort at this time and shower our people with hope, resilience, determination and endurance.

Guide us through these turbulent, difficult times to a place of joy, peace, stability and love that we can find only in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour.

Thank You Lord for this Island we live in. We lift Barbados to Your throne of grace and mercy. Thank You Jesus that we still have the freedom to worship, praise and serve You.

We pray that our people would turn back to You. Many of us have strayed. May our nation repent of its ways and begin to worship and serve You as Lord. Cause a fire of revival to burn in the hearts of men and women of this dear Island once again.

We place the eleven parishes in Barbados under the shadow of the Almighty – St Lucy, St Peter, St Andrew,
St Joseph, St John, St James, St Thomas, St George, St Philip, St Michael and Christ Church.

We also lift the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Harrison Point and all the other isolation centers and quarantine facilities to Your throne of mercy and grace and declare that the Lord is our Jehovah Rapha – our healer and deliver, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.