Batch Batchelder

Prayer of Justice and Wholeness

Living God,

You alone are sovereign — eternal, almighty, and overflowing with goodness and truth.

Your justice is love in action:

creative in forming life,

protective in defending it,

corrective in humbling pride,

and restorative in healing what sin and oppression have broken.

Teach us to live within that rhythm —

to abide in

When Sarah’s barrenness stretched into laughter and disbelief,

God’s promise ripened in her old age — life from the impossible.

And when Pharaoh’s daughter lifted a crying child from the Nile,

a deliverer was adopted, and the enslaved would one day walk free.

When Rebekah’s womb lay silent for twenty years,

Isaac’s prayer pierced heaven, and nations

“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.” — Alejandro Jodorowsky

Lord Jesus, Shepherd and Warrior, carry me as your lamb.

Break me where I am proud like a king.

Teach me to shepherd those entrusted to me — gently, patiently, faithfully.

Teach me to fight as your warrior — resisting idols, confronting injustice, laying down comfort for your kingdom.

Let my small strength foreshadow your great justice,

until the day