Daily Prayer
A Prayer about Our To-Be, To-Do, and To-Don’t Lists
Lord Jesus, As our week begins, some of us are thinking of all the things we need to get done. Help us to think instead of all the ways we need to be this week because we belong to you. Shape our to-do lists according to the things you did: giving up your rights as...
A Prayer about Help for the Falling
Our Strength and Our Song, You have become our salvation. When we’ve been surrounded by enemies on every side— financial stress, caregiving exhaustion, troubled teens, sickness and death, our own sinful choices, buzzing around us like angry bees, we were “pushed...
A Prayer about the One True King
King Jesus, We admit, we in the Western world don’t understand much about kings and rulers and, really, your kind of politics. After all, you are the King who created all things (can any other king in history say that?!), You created all things—— in heaven and on...
A Prayer about Being Drawn to Jesus
Father God, As we confess the truth about the “unknown gods” we often worship (see yesterday’s prayer), turn our faces to see Jesus, to see you in Jesus. Unlike most human beings who are only made in your image, our Lord is the “exact imprint of your nature,” ...
A Prayer about Praying and Personalizing Scripture
Hi Friends, Today we will pray part of Psalm 139, personalizing it as we do. I hope you try this—it can really remind us of how God is speaking to us and how we are speaking to God through Scripture and prayer. Wherever it says [name], just pray your name or the name...
A Prayer about Banishing Cynicism
Creator King, We confess, the cynicism of our age, “the negativity that only sees the worst of intentions behind the apparent good motives of others” (Frank Bruni), easily creeps into our hearts. Under the influence of such cynicism, we join in the cries of the...
A Prayer about Seeing God in Creation
Majestic Creator, In these sweet days of September, open our eyes and ears to hear your eloquent creation calling out to us. Though marred by the fall and groaning for your return, the heavens still declare your glory, the skies always proclaim your handiwork...
A Prayer about Praying for the Church
Precious Lord, We continue praying Ephesians 1:15-23 for our friends and for our churches. We pray that every single saint (person set-apart in Christ) will “understand the incredible greatness of your power for us who believe in you” (Ephesians 1:19). [Name ways...
A Prayer about What to Pray
[Hi Friends, this prayer is the first of two parts; stay tuned for part 2 tomorrow 😀] Father of Glory, Sometimes I don’t know how to pray for people I love, and then I remember that you’ve given us so many good prayers in your Word, like this one in Ephesians...
A Prayer about Labor that Saves
Holy God, Thank you for the apostle Paul’s honesty about his struggle with sin. I too struggle. On this Labor Day, the song that gets stuck in my head (even though it has nothing to do with the actual holiday), is “Rock of Ages.” Today, I make Toplady’s my song, ...