Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs of the world and give thanks for the ministries of our church.

Saturday, Oct. 5 We are nourished and sustained by countless resources in creation—all gifts from God, entrusted to our care. We give thanks for the gift of water, without which life cannot exist or flourish. We pray that we will exercise discipline, responsibility and generosity in how we use water, and that we will work to assure the availability of clean water for all people, everywhere.

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