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A Prayer about Our Rescue in Distress
Lord of Angel Armies, When we are hard-pressed on every side (2 Cor. 4:8-12), may we cry out to you. With you on our side, whom shall we fear (Psalm 118:6)? With you as our helper, what can man do to us (Psalm 118:6-7)? With you as our refuge, what human would we...
A Prayer about Daring to Hope
God of Hope, I confess, as lovely as every word in this verse is, it’s often hard to hope. Stories marked by earthly hopes disappointed often tamp down our hope. I pray for myself and for my friends who may feel the same way: By the power of your Holy Spirit, ...
A Prayer about Numbering Our Days
Eternal and Merciful God, We believe; help our unbelief. We believe that Jesus has risen from the dead; we believe that he has defeated death. We even believe that you are conforming us to the image of Christ through the indignities of aging and dying. But we...
A New Series on Aging, Dying, and Death
A New Monthly Blog on Aging, Death, and Dying Hi Friends, Today begins a new monthly series on aging, dying, and death. Please don’t click away. Did you know that the fastest growing age group in America right now is 85 and older, and the "current growth of...65 and...
A Prayer about Weakness
Lord, I confess, I don’t like being weak at all. You say that weakness is the Christian’s way, but I was born and raised in America, by strong people who taught me to work hard and be tough. Not only that, but I’m afraid much of what I’ve observed in church ...
A Prayer about Not Worrying
Good Father, Once, after a hurricane, a friend told me how she handled her worry that her seventy-year-old house would be destroyed: “I stayed inside and thought happy thoughts.” There’s nothing wrong with thinking happy thoughts, but you have given us a much...
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Daily Prayers
A Prayer about Needing Salvation
Do not forsake me, O Lord! O my God, be not far from me! Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation! Psalm 38:21-22 Steadfastly-loving Lord, We come to you again today, as we did yesterday, with David, mourning our own sin, seeing its ravaging effects on our...
A Prayer about the Transformation of Our Anger
And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored. Mark 3:5 Gentle Jesus, We are awed by your anger— first of all, many of us have never...
A Prayer about the One Who Endured Temptation for Us
And the devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” Luke 4:3 Lord Jesus, Thank you for enduring temptation for us. You had been led into the wilderness by the Spirit. This forty days of fasting was planned. But that didn’t...
A Prayer for the Crushed in Spirit
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Psalm 34:18 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...
A Prayer about God Doing Impossible Things
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… Ephesians 3:20 Almighty, Steadfastly Loving God, How often we forget that we are praying to an all-mighty, all-loving God! Because we are so weak...
A Prayer about Self-Care for Caregivers
And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. Matthew 14:23 Caregiving Jesus, Today we pray to correct a misinterpretation About self-denial we often see in caregivers. When you called us to deny ourselves, you never meant...