A Prayer about Wisdom for Caregivers

by | Nov 7, 2025 | Daily Prayer

A Prayer about Wisdom for Caregivers

Do you have a caregiving friend, or are you a caregiver needing wisdom?

For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. Proverbs 2:6

Wise and Gracious Lord,

Thank you for the wisdom you give 

for all of life’s hard stories and tough decisions. 

Today we think of our caregiving friends, 

who face weighty decisions daily 

concerning their loved ones’ care. 

Which medicine to try, 

how to get their loved one to comply with doctor’s orders, 

whether to take the car keys or not, 

how long to continue trying new treatments….

the list goes on and on. 

We pray for them, 

that they would hear you answering their prayers, 

perhaps in the form of helpful and wise counselors 

who have been there before them 

or in the form of gentle and kind social workers 

who understand the situation. 

We pray that you would deploy us 

as answers to their prayers, 

simply by offering respite 

or picking up mail while they’re at the hospital, 

or performing a simple task 

like walking the dog or delivering a meal. 

We pray that you would show them 

your deep compassion and forgiveness, 

especially if they are feeling a sense of failing their loved ones. 

Lord, in their hard caregiving days, 

may they truly know the rest and kindness of Jesus, 

our constant and caring companion.

Amen.

Read Proverbs 2:6; Psalm 91:1, 16; Isaiah 25:6-8; Ecclesiastes 3:1-8.

A Prayer about the God Who Guides Us

by | Nov 6, 2025 | Daily Prayer

A Prayer about the God Who Guides Us

Do you need guidance?

For this is our God forever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end. Psalm 48:14

Our God, 

How great are you indeed! 

You were committed to dwelling with your people,

 and long ago, you chose to dwell 

in a man-made temple in a man-made city 

as the mighty King of your people (Psalm 48:1-3). 

Other kings caught one look at your might, 

panicked, and ran away (Psalm 48:5). 

Not only are you mighty, you are merciful. 

The people rejoice as they consider

your “steadfast love” and “righteousness” 

and wise “judgments” (Psalm 48:9-11) 

Long ago, your people told of your greatness 

to the next generation; 

today, we praise you, 

because you have deigned to make yourself 

our God, forever and ever. 

Not only are you our God, 

you are our guide, 

today and tomorrow, 

and to the end of our days. 

Even at the end of our days on this earth, 

in you, the end is only the beginning. 

One day, our great King Jesus will return, 

and we will dwell with you forever, 

secure and safe in the eternal joy 

of your everlasting kingdom. 

What reason for rejoicing! Amen.

Read Psalm 48.

A Prayer about Waiting for Recovery

by | Nov 5, 2025 | Daily Prayer

A Prayer about Waiting for Recovery

Do you need help for your unbelief?

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief. Mark 9:24

Heavenly Father,

How this earthly father’s words resonate with us. 

He had likely lost all hope that his son, 

who was violently abused by an “unclean spirit,” 

would ever recover (Mark 9:17). 

And yet, he, like we, 

dared to hope that Jesus could help. 

He, like we, in our hopeless and discouragement, can only ask, 

“if you can do anything, 

have compassion on us and help us” (Mark 9:22). 

When Jesus responds, “Anything is possible if a person believes,” 

the father admits his ambivalence: “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief” (Mark 9:24). 

Oh Lord, how we thank you 

that your healing work in our lives, 

whether healing of sin, 

healing of addiction, 

healing of illness, 

or healing of relationships, 

does not depend on our level of faith. 

Oh Lord, how we thank you 

that you are the faithful one 

who loves us deeply in our doubt. 

Oh Lord, how we thank you 

that we know the day of full and final healing 

is coming soon. 

In Jesus’ faithful name. Amen.  

Read Mark 9:14-29. 

A Prayer about Not Resenting Correction

by | Nov 4, 2025 | Daily Prayer

A Prayer about Not Resenting Correction

How do you feel about correction?

Mockers resent correction, so they avoid the wise. Proverbs 15:12

Gracious Father,

Throughout your word, 

we find you calling us 

to heed correction and discipline. 

And yet, we confess, 

we resist it; 

sometimes we even resent it. 

How desperately we need your correction, though,

for our hearts are stubborn and still plagued by sin; 

we are too much the wayward sheep, 

all going our own way (See Isaiah 53:6).

How desperately we need a Savior, 

and how desperately we need to trust your discipline 

as a kindness to us. 

We do not want to be people 

who “despise the Lord’s discipline,” 

who “resent your rebuke” (Prov. 3:11).

Rather, make us your very own children 

who know that you “discipline the one you love” (Hebrews 11:6), 

who trust that your discipline, 

while it seems painful, 

“yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness 

to those who have been trained by it” (Heb. 12:11). 

In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Read Proverbs 3:11; Proverbs 15:12; Hebrews 12:3-11.

A Prayer about Desiring a Better Country

by | Nov 3, 2025 | Daily Prayer

A Prayer about Desiring a Better Country

Do you need a little perspective on Election Day?

These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. Hebrews 11:13

Lord God, Architect and Builder of the City with Foundations,

Remind us today of what you have told us over and over: 

this world is not our home—yet. 

One day, our Savior, King Jesus, 

who submitted himself to estrangement 

for the sake of our sins, 

will return to this earth. 

In that day, he will bring with him 

“the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, 

coming down out of heaven from God, 

prepared as a bride adorned for her husband” (Revelation 21:2). 

We admit, that’s a mixed metaphor 

and it’s hard to get our minds around, 

but this we know:

In that day, we will, 

like Abraham and Sarah and Moses and Rahab 

and all the other saints mentioned in Hebrews 11, 

“receive the things promised,” 

the things we “greet…from afar” (Hebrews 11:13). 

We will settle in the homeland 

we have always sought (Hebrews 11:14). 

We will no longer be “strangers and exiles on the earth” (Hebrews 11:13). 

Today and every day, Lord, 

keep our eyes fixed on the horizon, 

looking for that “better country” 

our hearts deeply desire, 

the heavenly one, 

for we know that you have prepared for us a city. 

Until that day comes, 

may we invite others to join us 

as strangers and exiles on this earth, 

as citizens of your heavenly kingdom. 

In the name of the only King, Jesus. Amen. 

Read Hebrews 11:8-16; Revelation 21:1-5.