Pray for the Media

 

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Pray for all Media

Today I pray for all Media and All forms of communication, Advertising, Mass communication, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, building signs, road signs, Internet pop ups, yard signs, posters in business windows, billboards, all images, Email, Instant messages, Blogs, Websites, YouTube, all Internet searches, Movies, Film, Video, Newspapers, print and e-editions, Magazines, TV, Radio, News magazines, Newsletters and other forms of organizational communication, Memos, Inter-office messages, Books, in print and e-books, Pamphlets, Texting, phone calls, all Print publications, Publishers and publishing houses, All video, and all internet video production,

And I also pray for Continual Communication with God

 Holy God, You alone have all the power, You alone have all the wisdom, You know everything that happens, and You love us and ask us to talk to You, to ask and seek and knock. You know what is on our hearts even before we think it or speak it. Let our words come before you as a sweet smelling sacrifice, because You love us and listen to all our requests, listen to our prayer for all in the media today …

Father in Heaven, thank you for being a God that communicates with us, through scripture, through creation, through the sending of Your Son – the Living Word, and for the many different ways You speak to us today.

Thank you for writers, producers, broadcasters and journalists. Thank you for their talents, their abilities, and their skills in seeking the truth.

Bless the media with integrity and wisdom.

God, we ask that You raise up godly men and women to take up key positions, and who will champion the powerless and seek out truth and justice.

For all those in the media create a holy desire to affect the culture in a positive manner. May they bring knowledge and clarity to the world around us. Help those in the media to hold to the highest professional standards, especially when budgets are stretched, time is tight and competition is increasing daily.

Give reporters a compassion for others as they write – protect reporters as they cover stories in dangerous surroundings and situations – give reporters and editors an understanding and sense of the awesome responsibility they carry in their jobs – guide their words to show the truth about You, and not to blind us with their agenda. Guide them to speak to the truth about You and Who You are – protect all of Your children who are writing with a heart for You – guide their words to shine a light in our dark world – give them the courage to share the good news of Jesus Christ with their readers – infuse the words of Christian writers with Your truth and light

Let our hearts not be filled with malice, frustration, or anger, but may our hearts be filled with Your perfect love and may our minds be filled with Your perfect truth,

Protect all Your children who work in the media. Protect them from the arrows of the enemy. Send your angels to fight on their behalf.

I pray for my fellow reporters – move them to write with grace, accuracy and truth. I pray for all writers that work in television, radio, cable, Facebook, blogging, Hollywood film, independent film and all video, those that write for news sources and newsletters of all kinds, that they write carefully, not for sensationalizing events, but that they write to bring understanding and honor to those they are writing about.

Speak to Your children working in the media. Give them faith to follow You in their sometimes dark places. Give them wisdom to stand up for Your Name. Give them strength to stand against the enemy’s charms, against gossip, against sensationalizing, against lies.

God, give your children strength as they deal with the pressures to write too quickly, tell half a story, sensationalize the mundane or trivialize the important.

Guide them to protect the innocent and to err on the side of mercy. Give them courage to stand up for Your truth in this age of deception. Guide Your children working in the media to daily read Your Word and search the scriptures to find the answers to their tough questions.

Father, forgive me for all the bitterness and unfairness in my heart. Help me to speak the truth always with love. Help me to write the truth always with love, honoring those who I write about, honoring their families, that the truth, though difficult, will bring light to life and free all those who read what I have written. Guard my tongue in the difficult discussions. Let me speak and write encouragement, faith, hope and mercy.

Father, I pray for all who read, listen and watch what the media offers. Help us to set the media aside and to listen to You before anything else. Remind us to begin our day with You, not the news, to begin our day with Your words, not the newspaper, to begin our day with conversations with You, not Facebook. Help us to judge what we see and hear by Your Perfect Word.

God, we are all media.

Let our example be Your communication with us through Your Living Word. Give us Your words by Your Holy Spirit.

I pray this in the powerful, saving, precious Name of Jesus.

Amen

(I was honored to pray this publicly during the National Day of Prayer gathering in Galion, Ohio, May 2016.)