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A Prayer about Being Dusty
Eternal Lord, We don’t like to admit it, but we’re a little dusty. Thankfully, though, you are transforming our dusty bodies into new beings. As the apostle Paul explains, we were born of the first Adam, a living being who was condemned by his sin to death, but...
Something Worth Waiting For
Hi Friends, in this season after a year of so many canceled celebrations, many of us are anticipating graduations and reunions and vacations. But I'm aware that some are still stuck in very painful, anxiety-inducing waits. Wherever this day finds you, I pray this...
A Prayer about Joy in Trial
Father of All Comfort, We admit, “joy” is not often our first response when our car won’t start or when we receive a difficult diagnosis or when our child struggles in school or when we have a bad day at work… And yet, you call us to “consider it a great joy” ...
A Prayer Thanking God for Light in Darkness
Merciful Lord, Thank you for how you come to us all, Whether we have known the shattering of shalom in the split of divorce or divided relationships, the confusion and chaos of crisis, the loss of peace, hope, and flourishing: You sent your sunrise to visit us from...
A Prayer about Spiritual Depression
God our Creator, You formed us and knew us even before we were in our mother’s womb. You, better than any counselor, understand our emotional and mental struggles. When we struggle to put one foot in front of the other in a spiritual desert, help us to know that...
5 Ways to Address Spiritual Depression
Do you ever have those days…weeks…years, when your spiritual blood runs cold, when your deer-panting-thirst has itself seemingly dried up? Or when you’re parched, dying for a drink from God but his springed-up-well seems to be saturating other cracked hearts but not...
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Daily Prayers
A Prayer about Respecting the Aged
Stand up in the presence of the elderly, and show respect for the aged. Fear your God. I am the LORD. Leviticus 19:32 Eternal Lord, We live in a culture that prefers agelessness, a culture that strives to remain eternally young. We live in an aging culture, where...
A Prayer about Blessing Others in Our Death
All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. Psalm 139:16 Author God, I was recently reminded how crucial it is to prayerfully consider now how we might approach suffering at the end of our lives. To my chagrin, in a novel I...
A Prayer about Trusting God to Deliver from Trials
The Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials…. 2 Peter 2:9 All-Seeing God, We confess, sometimes your Word seems to mock us. We read that you “rescue the godly from trials,” that you will “deliver…from the snare of the fowler…” and that danger will not come...
A Prayer about Letting Jesus Lead
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me.” Matthew 16: 24 Precious Father, How stunning that you, our heavenly, hallowed, (holy) Father, the perfectly right and just...
A Prayer about Becoming Aware of the Spirit
And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness. Acts 4:31 Heavenly Father, Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Forgive us for failing to...
A Prayer about God’s Wrath and Mercy
Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, ‘Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God. ’ Revelation 16:1 Holy, Wrathful, and Merciful Judge, We confess, your wrath is not our favorite subject. It’s true, we may avoid it...