Prayer for the Åland Islands

Åland also called the Åland Islands or Ahvenanmaa in Finnish and sometimes even called Alandia, is an archipelago in the Baltic Sea. It is situated at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia and forms an autonomous, demilitarised, monolingually Swedish-speaking administrative province of Finland.

The Åland archipelago consists of nearly three hundred habitable islands, of which about eighty are inhabited; the remainder are merely some 6,000 skerries and desolate rocks. The archipelago is connected to Åboland archipelago in the east. The Åboland archipelago is adjacent to the southwest coast of Finland. Together they form the Archipelago Sea.

The islands consist of the main island Fasta Åland where 50% of the population resides and an archipelago to the east that consists of over 6,500 skerries and islands. Fasta Åland is separated from the coast of Sweden by forty kilometres (twenty-five miles) of open water to the west. In the east, the Åland archipelago is virtually contiguous with the Finnish Archipelago Sea. Åland's only land border is extremely short and strangely shaped; it is located on the uninhabited island of Märket, which it shares with Sweden.

The Åland Islands occupy a position of great strategic importance, as they command one of the entrances to the port of Stockholm, as well as the approaches to the Gulf of Bothnia, in addition to being situated near the Gulf of Finland.


Prayer:

Precious Lord, I present for your consideration the islands and people of Åland. Bless and pour out your mercies and grace upon these islands and the people who inhabit them. Let your glory descend upon them as you did in king Solomon’s time. Allow them to be at peace in these troubled times, this I pray in Jesus’ name, Amen.

Yes, Lord, please pour out Your blessings, mercy and grace to the people of Aland Islans. Let Your goodness lead them to repentance and relationship with You, in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.