Daily Prayer
A Prayer about Redemption in Families
Author God, Thank you for your Word which gives us hope that you can redeem even the worst of our sins against our families. Time after time, you supply true stories of fallen people, people you transformed, people through whom you accomplished your...
A Prayer about Remembering the Wonders of the Lord
Wonder-Working God, As a lover of stories, I’ve always appreciated Asaph’s call to tell the stories of the “glorious deeds, about his power and his mighty wonders” (Psalm 78:4). Psalm 78 vividly portrays the terrible things that happen when we forget to remember...
A Prayer about How Not to Judge
Holy Lord, Help us to correctly understand your prohibition against judging. On the one hand, you “prohibit a critical spirit.”* On the other, you do “not forbid the use of all critical faculty.”* We are not to judge for a number of reasons: First, God is the only...
A Prayer about Our Soul-Thirst
Thirst-filling Lord, Today we lift up all who ache for you to appear, all who remember the days we used to lead the procession of praise (Psalm 42:4), all who now suffer turmoil within and attack from without (Psalm 42:5). Restore their hope again, even as they...
A Prayer about the Lord’s Enjoyment of Us
Mighty God, Slow us down that we might take in the wonder of these words! You, the Creator of the cosmos, the maker of heaven and earth, are in our midst! You are a mighty one who has already saved us by your Son and adopted us as your children. And now you...
A Prayer about Moving from the Domain of Darkness
Father, I confess, sometimes the darkness of this world seems all-encompassing. The depressing news, the bent toward meanness, the joy in judginess …I see it everywhere— in my own heart and in the hearts of others. What good news it is to remember then, that...
A Prayer about God’s Purposes in Aging
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 we see your holy purposes for aging— some may no longer have the energy to tend to babies all night long, but...
A Prayer about Getting Unstuck
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 in bad habits, or just stuck in life. May we read this story and see how Jesus came to seek and save the lost (Luke...
A Prayer about Preventing Bitterness
Merciful Lord, May we hear your dire warning to guard our hearts from the toxic root of bitterness. Bitterness characterizes the unrighteous, whose “mouth is full of curses and bitterness, whose feet are swift to shed blood” (Romans 3:14-15). Bitterness...
A Prayer about Receiving the Lord’s Discipline
Heavenly Father, Although your discipline, your correction, your reproof may seem painful at the time, help us to receive it as the tender and kind strength of a good Father who deeply loves his children. Remind us of the truth misapplied by Eliphaz— “For he...