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A Prayer about Caring for Those Who Care for Others
“casting all your cares on him, because he cares about you” 1 Peter 5:7 Jesus, our Great High Priest, Today we lift up pastors, priests, and ministry leaders who care for your people. We confess, we don’t think often enough about how what their days look like, ...
A Prayer about the Aging Body
If the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens 2 Corinthians 5:1 Heavenly Father, Yesterday we prayed about finding hope in the losses of aging by keeping an eternal perspective. ...
A Prayer about an Eternal Perspective on Aging
Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day 2 Cor. 4:16 Eternal Lord, The Bible is clear about the losses of aging, but it also provides hope in the midst of these losses. The apostle Paul offers an eternal perspective that...
A Prayer about Ageism
Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity. 1 Timothy 5:1-2 Good Father, Forgive us for the ways we sometimes marginalize...
A Prayer about the Reality of Hell
And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night. Revelation 14:11 Holy God, Forgive us for our reluctance to talk about hell. When we refuse to consider its reality, we fail to understand the great goodness of the...
A Prayer about the Hope of the Cross
Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, ‘What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?’ And they paid him thirty shekels of silver. Matthew 26:14-15 Merciful Father, This scene ranks right up there as...
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Daily Prayers
A Prayer about Being Permanently Justified
We couldn’t carry this off by our own efforts, and we know it—even though we can list what many might think are impressive credentials. Philippians 3:3-4 Justifying Lord, How I pray we can really and truly grasp once and for all, the profound peace that comes...
A Prayer about Pausing to Remember God’s Wondrous Works
Will you pause with me to remember God’s wondrous works? On your wondrous works, I will meditate. Psalm 145:5 Wondrously Working Lord, How often do we pause, do we really chew on, the millions of ways, seen and unseen, you work in this world, in our...
A Prayer about the Destruction of Death
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...
A Prayer about De-Selfing
….who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. Galatians 1:4 Lord Jesus, Grow our awe— You gave your-self: your fully divine, fully human self… For...
A Prayer about Wise Tongues
Do you see someone who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for them. Proverbs 29:20 All-Wise God, Forgive our foolishness. Heal our tongues, which often speak “rashly, like the thrusts of a sword” (Proverbs 12:18). We have become deeply...
A Prayer about Our Reasons for Rejoicing
This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24 Steadfastly Loving Lord, How many are our reasons for rejoicing! This very day, and every day, is the day you have made! As we look around, many of us see green sprigs shooting out of...