High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Prayer for the Current Financial Situation is an English prayer launched in September 2008 by the Church of England to offer the opportunity for prayer and reflection during the credit crisis. The prayer notes that "we live in disturbing days", with rising prices, increasing debts, job losses and collapsing banks, and calls God to be a "a tower of strength amidst the shifting sands" of the economic turmoil. Since the prayer was published by the Church of England on its official website, it pushed up traffic to the website by more than 25 percent.