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A Prayer about Facing Our Mortality
…for dust you are and to dust you will return. Genesis 3:19 Merciful and Everlasting God, While this verse, part of the curse you pronounced after Adam and Eve rebelled against you, sounds pretty dismal, open our ears to hear the hope beyond these words. In a world...
A Prayer about Being Delivered from Distress
Whoever is wise, let him attend to these things, let them consider the steadfast love of the Lord. Psalm 107: 43 Heavenly Father, Thank you for Psalm 107, which teaches us that we become wise by remembering the stories of how we cried out to you in trouble, and you...
A Prayer about Hope that Doesn’t Shame Us
And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Romans 5:5 Father God, What a kind promise: Hope does not put us to shame… Many of us have known the shame of hoping for things on...
A Prayer about the God Who Hears Our Groans
All-knowing God, We are so grateful that we know that you know our very groanings. When you hear our groanings, whether over grief due to a loved one’s death or the suffering of mental illness or the sorrow over wars and strivings. We who belong to you know ...
A Prayer about Suffering in the Body
Compassionate Lord, Today we lift up, and we pray our prayers will truly lift up, those who are weighed down with the heavy burden of chronic illness or ongoing suffering in their bodies. Some have chronic pain that no medication can touch, some have seen doctor...
A Prayer about Our Soul-Thirst
Thirst-filling Lord, Today we lift up all who ache for you to appear, all who remember the days we used to lead the procession of praise (Psalm 42:4), all who now suffer turmoil within and attack from without (Psalm 42:5). Restore their hope again, even as they...
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Daily Prayers
A Prayer about the Destruction of Death
Do you long for the day death is destroyed? The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 1 Corinthians 15:27 Heavenly Father, Death is indeed our enemy. You created humans to live forever, glorifying and enjoying you. When sin entered the world, death came right...
A Prayer about Living the Legacy We Want to Leave
What kind of legacy do you 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...
A Prayer about a God Who Can Do Far More than We Ask or Think
Do you really believe God can do far more than we ask or think? Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations,...
A Prayer about Being Rooted and Grounded in Love
Do you want love to grow in you and others? …that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth… Ephesians 3:17-18 Father God As we see plump, juicy tomatoes growing on...
A Prayer for the Kind of Strength We Need
What kind of strength do we really need? I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with his power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Ephesians 3:16-17 Father God, Thank you for this...
A Prayer about Not Living to Please Ourselves
Have you ever been told that older people get to live any way they want? We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Romans 15:1 Lord Christ, Because you did not live to please yourself (Romans 15:3), but...