Prayer to the Nation: God will protect us from our oppressors

Heavenly God, the God of all Gods, the Lord of lords, I worship Your Most Holy Name, You who put me in this beautiful country to live.


Forgive me of all of my sins. Forgive me if I have transgressed Your laws, unknowingly. Forgive me and make my heart pure. 


I make this prayer to my country, a beautiful creation. You, o God, created all the beautiful things in my country, the trees, the mountains, the rivers and streams, You made them pure for Your slaves. 


You created Filipinos to be one of the most loving people in the world. You molded the Filipino to be a honest and most trustworthy creature. You, O God, we owe our lives. You, O God, provide us with bountiful seas that produce wonderful food, and You, O God, made our forests living and lush with life. I thank you continually O God, for every single thing.


But, Oh, My Father, look at your wonderful creation. Men of evil minds destroyed Your forests, carved Your Mountains for ore and made impure, Your rivers, streams, seas and oceans. 


The water we drink, the food we eat are all contaminated by sinners. Those who do business in our country, O Lord, they made everything so expensive to Your children. The gasoline that powers our cars are so expensive, we can nearly buy rice from our salaries and we can only eat noodles every single day, O Lord. 


Look, oh God, we have prostituted ourselves for the Mammon. Every single one of us thinks of getting ahead of others, to the point of doing acts that harm many of Your Children, O God. 


Our fellow Filipinos think of government service as a self-serving duty, one that would easily give them money, instead of them thinking of giving service to YOur People, o God.


Many of us O Lord, serve Government in order to get monies from our treasuries. Our government officials think of selling our lands to the highest bidder, not thinking about the future generations of Filipinos and their welfare.


Look, our God, we have leaders who don't lead and we have followers who don't follow. We are directless O God. We have no where to go. 


Lead us Lord, towards true change. Protect your people. Rise up real leaders O God, those whose hearts are set in the right direction. Arouse within us Love, o GOd, love for our fellow Filipinos, and love to the poor, the orphans and the widows. Look kindly on your people O Lord God, yet punish those who continually do evil. Amen.