Lord, where can we go but to Thee?
We have no one in heaven beside Thee,
and no one on earth with your grand ability
to touch our spirits,
lift our mood,
bless our kids,
stick us back together again when we fall apart
or saw a torn relationship into place.

We come to ask for the consciousness
of your immediate and dynamic presence,
that your messengers be greatly helped
and that you would have mercy upon us, O God.

We wonder what you see that we cannot:
A crowd of cowards?
A sea of sin?
A morass of people picking and clawing at each other?
Hurt husbands or rejected wives
who find it difficult to look their neighbors in the face?
Or do you, perhaps, see those of us who are celebrating
the “I have need of nothing: individuals,
the “keep your religion, I have mine” group,
The cynic or the scoffer,
or even little children capable of huge injustice
on their own sweet level.

See, Lord, we are here together;
have mercy on us all.
Find us tonight, God, find us.
Nudge us into your will and away from our wants;
reduce us to size,
show us your mighty arm,
carry away our sin.
O Lord, be yourself;

Move us into action, a bold stand,
a walking statement that will tell the world,
our world, that Jesus is our public choice.

We ask for the awareness that something is going on,
we request that you fasten our minds with the
nail of urgency to the wall of decision;
and we as it all, Jesus,
that Calvary be worthwhile.

Amen
Jill Briscoe
Prayer at the Billy Graham Greater Milwaukee Crusade, 1979