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A Prayer about Help for the Falling
Our Strength and Our Song, You have become our salvation. When we’ve been surrounded by enemies on every side— financial stress, caregiving exhaustion, troubled teens, sickness and death, our own sinful choices, buzzing around us like angry bees, we were “pushed...
When You Can’t Share Your Prayer Requests
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How to Wait Well in Crisis
Win books! This month, as we celebrate the one-year-birthday of From Recovery to Restoration: 60 Meditations for Finding Peace & Hope in Crisis, I’m giving away four books each week. See above for this week’s books. Enter for a chance to win. To have more chances...
How to Take Heart in Hard Times
Win books! This month, as we celebrate the one-year-birthday of From Recovery to Restoration, I’m giving away four books each week. See above for this week’s books. Enter for a chance to win. To have more chances to win, share about the book more often or share the...
Waiting with Hope
Dear Friends, In the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, I thought this excerpt from the book From Recovery to Restoration:60 Meditations for Finding Peace & Hope in Crisis would encourage hearts today. Please share it with someone you know who needs it. Also, be sure to...
A Prayer about Suffering for the Sake of Christ
Father God, Thank you for the Apostle Paul. What a strange and wonderful man he was, so markedly changed by Jesus Christ. He spoke these words of farewell to his dear friends in Ephesus, saying basically, “I don’t know what will happen to me in Jerusalem, but I...
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Daily Prayers
A Prayer about Being of the Same Mind
How do we deal with divisions? I plead with Euodia and I plead with Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord. Philippians 4:2 Uniting Lord, We confess, the apostle Paul could have called out any one of us here: “I plead with [insert your name here] and [insert...
A Prayer about Being Transformed by Love
How do we become people marked by the love of God? So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13 Shaping Spirit, Yesterday we meditated on the wondrous love of God. Today we ponder how that love changes us. ...
A Prayer about Pondering the Depth of God’s Love
Have you thought about how deep God’s love is lately? Your love, God, is my song, and I will sing it! I’m forever telling everyone how faithful you are. I’ll never quit telling the story of your love. Psalm 89:1 Loving Father, Slow us down in the busy scrolling and...
A Prayer about the Fear that Changes All of Our Fears
Do you fear the Lord, or are you afraid of the Lord? Oh fear the Lord, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack. Psalm 34:9 Holy Father, We confess, especially in our culture, which loves to focus on your “nearness to the brokenhearted” (Ps. 34:18), we...
A Prayer about Endurance in Suffering
Do you need endurance for trials? I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. Revelation 1:9 Precious Jesus,...
A Prayer about Longing for Healing
Do you or does someone you know struggle with chronic illness? This prayer is for you or your friend. “He put mud on my eyes,” the man replied, “and I washed, and now I see.” John 9:14 Healing Lord, You know my sweet husband often jokes that if either one of us ever...