Daily Prayer
A Prayer about Praying Boldly
Holy Spirit, As you did with the early disciples when they were faced with persecution: Fill us with your power and shake us out of our safe, status quo prayers. Sharpen the focus of our prayers— that we might share the good news: Jesus has come to save his...
A Prayer about Our Rescue in Distress
Lord of Angel Armies, When we are hard-pressed on every side (2 Cor. 4:8-12), may we cry out to you. With you on our side, whom shall we fear (Psalm 118:6)? With you as our helper, what can man do to us (Psalm 118:6-7)? With you as our refuge, what human would we...
A Prayer about Being Humbled by the Word
Merciful and Loving Jesus, Thank you for your Word, a sword that stabs straight through our shields of blindness, exposing our sin. Thank you for the times our daily reading takes us, as it did me, to a story of the wedding guests who chose the seat of honor ...
A Prayer about the Best Heart Transplant
Lord God, I’ve always been fascinated with the strange prophecies of Ezekiel. I love the part where you tell him to breathe into the dry bones, and “there was a sound, and behold, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. ”Then you tell Ezekiel to...
A Prayer about the Antidote to Shame
God of Delight, We confess, we often cower in shame rather than enjoying and glorifying you. This verse gives us a hint about how our crippling shame has been overcome. We suffer from shame over our sin: the real guilt we should feel about our attempts to rule your...
A Prayer for Those Longing for a Spouse
Loving God, We do believe that nothing can separate us from your love; help our unbelief. Today especially, I think of people who are lonely, especially those who long for a spouse. Sometimes they feel unloved, left out, flawed even, because they have waited and...
A Prayer about Daring to Hope
God of Hope, I confess, as lovely as every word in this verse is, it’s often hard to hope. Stories marked by earthly hopes disappointed often tamp down our hope. I pray for myself and for my friends who may feel the same way: By the power of your Holy Spirit, ...
A Prayer about Numbering Our Days
Eternal and Merciful God, We believe; help our unbelief. We believe that Jesus has risen from the dead; we believe that he has defeated death. We even believe that you are conforming us to the image of Christ through the indignities of aging and dying. But we...
A Prayer about Radically Good News
Lord, On this Monday, draw us to your Word to pray with Paul, to pray for those we love and those we need to love, that the “truth of the Good News” about Jesus Christ would radically change the way we live. By your Holy Spirit, may the Good News give us a stunning...
A Prayer about a Love like No Other
Ever-loving Father, Wow us with this amazing news today! You have called us your children, and we really have become your children. Do we realize that this changes everything? Yes, it’s true, the world cannot understand why we spend half our Sundays at church...