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A Prayer about Living the Legacy We Want to Leave
And walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Ephesians 5:2 Heavenly Father, In this world, the focus of leaving a legacy is often on making a name for ourselves. We ask you, by the...
A Prayer about Caring for Those Who Care for Others
“casting all your cares on him, because he cares about you” 1 Peter 5:7 Jesus, our Great High Priest, Today we lift up pastors, priests, and ministry leaders who care for your people. We confess, we don’t think often enough about how what their days look like, ...
A Prayer about the Aging Body
If the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens 2 Corinthians 5:1 Heavenly Father, Yesterday we prayed about finding hope in the losses of aging by keeping an eternal perspective. ...
A Prayer about an Eternal Perspective on Aging
Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day 2 Cor. 4:16 Eternal Lord, The Bible is clear about the losses of aging, but it also provides hope in the midst of these losses. The apostle Paul offers an eternal perspective that...
A Prayer about Ageism
Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity. 1 Timothy 5:1-2 Good Father, Forgive us for the ways we sometimes marginalize...
A Prayer about the Reality of Hell
And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night. Revelation 14:11 Holy God, Forgive us for our reluctance to talk about hell. When we refuse to consider its reality, we fail to understand the great goodness of the...
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Daily Prayers
A Prayer about Boasting in Our Weakness
Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 2 Cor. 12:10 All-Powerful God, We confess, we in Western culture crave power, control, and independence. The last thing we want is to be seen as weak. And...
A Prayer about Leaning into Brand New Things
Behold, I am doing a new thing; Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? Isaiah 43:19 Creator King, Isaiah shared your hope with the Israelites in a desperate season. May we hear his call to “remember not the former things”— old ways of entrenched sin, deeply...
A Prayer about God’s Gift of Furry Friends
The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them. Isaiah 11:6 Comforting Creator, As I take our twelve-year-old dog to the vet today, I...
A Prayer about Knowing Ourselves
So if anyone is in Christ, that person is a new creation: everything old has passed away; look, new things have come into being! 2 Corinthians 5:17 All-Knowing God, When we begin to know you, and when we begin to understand the hope, joy, and relief of being known...
A Prayer about Being Known by God
You have searched me, LORD, and you know me. Psalm 139:1 Gracious God, As we prayed yesterday, we are so thankful that you have invited us to know you, but we are even more thankful that you know us. We confess, we often fear being known, because we are afraid...
A Prayer about Really Knowing God
Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches, but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me… Jeremiah 9:23-24 Gracious God, May we learn to boast in the wild...