Daily Prayer
A Prayer about Honoring the Elderly
The glory of the young is their strength; the gray hair of experience is the splendor of the old. Proverbs 20:29 Everlasting Father, In a world that often marginalizes or mocks the elderly, transform us into people who honor and value the elderly. Even as we age, may...
A Prayer about Praying God’s Promises Back to Him
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever. Exodus...
A Prayer about Getting Unstuck
The woman said to him, ‘I know that Messiah is coming….’ Jesus said to her, ‘I who speak to you am he.’ John 4:25-26 Author God, What a profound true story you have given us to demonstrate the only real hope for those of us who feel stuck— whether stuck in sin, stuck...
A Prayer about Preventing Bitterness
See to it than on one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble and by it many become defiled… Hebrews 12:15 Merciful Lord, May we hear your dire warning to guard our hearts from the toxic root of bitterness....
A Prayer about the Lord’s Discipline
Do not despise the Lord’s instruction, my son, and do not loathe his discipline; for the Lord disciplines the one he loves, just as a father disciplines the son in whom he delights. (Proverbs 3:11-12) Heavenly Father, Although your discipline, your correction, your...
A Prayer about Understanding Sickness and Healing
‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? John 9:2 Healing Lord, Thank you for the compassion you show the sick and those who need healing. Correct wrong assumptions about sickness and healing. Sadly, too many of us have been told that...
A Prayer about Peace for Troubled Hearts
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. John 14:27 Lord Jesus, Thank you for this profound promise for troubled hearts: You leave us peace, your peace, ...
A Prayer about Doing Hard Work Heartily
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters…(Colossians 3:23) Gracious Lord, I remember well the days of four children under six years, the chaos, the clutter, the laundry, the diapers, the dishes, the drudge of...
A Prayer about the Pain of Living in a Fallen World
For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. Romans 8:21 Compassionate Father, We who live in Western culture are keenly aware that we don’t suffer the way people in other cultures do— we don’t have to search...
A Prayer about Unspoken Prayer Requests
For we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. Romans 8:26 Heavenly Father, Today we come to you on behalf of all of the people who have “unspoken prayer requests.” In our church prayer...