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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 Honoring Jesus
In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial. Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her. Matthew 26:12-13 Lord Jesus, How often we, like the...
A Prayer about Jesus’ Determination
“And they will mock him and spit on him, and flog him and kill him. And after three days he will rise.” Mark 10:34 Lord Jesus, Enlarge our imaginations so that we might walk with you on the day you told your disciples this alarming news. You were marching...
A Prayer about How to Endure Temptation
And Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’” Luke 4:12 Lord Jesus, In our study of your temptation in the wilderness, we see how Satan tried the same things with you he tries with us. This time he encouraged you to test...
A Prayer about Not Being Foolish
“For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:18 All-Wise God, May we heed Paul’s words about wisdom and foolishness, so that we might avoid being foolish, so that we might...
A Prayer about Waiting and Watching for the Lord
“I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope. I wait for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning.” Psalm 130:5-6 Steadfast God, Many of us are waiting in agony for a harsh season to end. All of us are waiting for justice to reign...
A Prayer about a Strange Trade-Off
“For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit.” 1 Peter 3:18 Holy and Merciful God, Thank you for these show-stopping words from 1 Peter. As we...