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A Prayer about the Destruction of Death
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 entered the world, death came right alongside it, and ever since, the devil has...
A Prayer about Grieving with Hope
Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 1 Thessalonians 4:13 Comforting Lord, How kind your Word is— you know that we will grieve when we lose loved...
A Prayer about Living the Legacy We Want to Leave
And walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Ephesians 5:2 Heavenly Father, In this world, the focus of leaving a legacy is often on making a name for ourselves. We ask you, by the...
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...
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Daily Prayers
A Prayer about the Misery of Sin
See my troubles and misery and forgive my sins. Psalm 25:2 Compassionate and Holy God, This morning I am thinking about how miserable sin makes us: “Envy rots the bones” (Proverbs 14:30); Thinking we are right and another is wrong rips up relationships; Letting...
A Prayer about Pausing 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 neighborhood, in our lives? For a few moments, let’s consider...
A Prayer about the Destruction of Death
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 entered the world, death came right alongside it, and ever since, the devil has...
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 a Talking Donkey
“And the donkey said to Balaam, ‘Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Is it my habit to treat you this way?’ Numbers 22:31 King above all Kings, There is perhaps no more amusing story in Scripture than the one about the...