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Michael Vinson
Michael Vinson attended last year’s Disturbing Voices HIV/AIDS Conference at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. He graciously agreed to offer a prayer for this year’s Global Summit on AIDS and the Church, Race Against Time, Nov. 30-Dec. 1.
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Father, I thank you in advance for those you are going to bring to this conference. I thank you in advance for the many, many, many lives who will be touched throughout the world as your Church extends its hand of compassion and of salvation to those suffering – living and dying with HIV/AIDS.
Father, we bless your name, and we thank you again for your providence in our lives. And Father, I pray that every person that attends, that you will touch their hearts. That they will cry for the things that you cry about. That they will weep over the things that you weep about.
Father, that they will have your heart and have your will and your mind, Father, to go to the places where no one wants to go. To touch those that no one wants to touch.
I thank you Holy Spirit that you reside in us. That you comfort us, and that you illuminate the truth of God’s Word in our hearts and minds.
And so I pray that you are ever present in that conference. That you are moving boldly and mightily in and out of that conference to the people that are there. Again, changing hearts and attitudes toward the scourge which is HIV/AIDS.
Father, we pray all of this in accordance with your good and perfect will and in the name of the only name, which is your Son, Jesus Christ.
Amen
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