Daily Prayer
A Prayer about Giving Thanks to Our Only God
Lord, May we address you as this psalmist does: Firmly, emphatically, declaring: “You are my God,” not my children, my work, my dating life, my sports, my home, or any other thing on this earth that we sometimes serve and worship. And oh, how thankful we are, with...
A Prayer about Freeing Our Hearts
Lord Jesus, May we stop our scrolling for one minute to consider your merciful mission: When a bully taunts our child; when our child turns his heart away from you, Our hearts break. When trusted allies become enemies, when we act like enemies toward trusted...
A Prayer about God’s Healing Work
Great Physician, It’s been just under a year since America felt the first effects of the global pandemic: lockdowns and quarantines, masking and hand washing. Over 2 million people have died throughout the world from the dread COVID-19 virus; many continue to...
A Prayer about Longing for Love
Loving Father, Why is it that Valentine’s Day, a day that is meant to celebrate love, can make many people feel deeply unloved and profoundly alone? I remember Valentine’s Days in middle and high school, longing so desperately to have the “cupid” call my name to...
A Prayer about Doing Justice
Heavenly Father, I will never forget the time the Reverend John M. Perkins spoke in our high school chapel, the stories he told, his book we read, “Let Justice Roll Down.” He challenged us as he challenged himself to search our hearts to see if we truly understood...
A Prayer about the Wisdom We Desperately Need
Jesus, our Wisdom, Some of us need your wisdom for making crucial decisions about our lives, our work, our families, our homes. Some of us need your wisdom for dealing with daily decisions about potty-training, barking dogs, loud neighbors, and difficult...
A Prayer about the Very Near Word
Oh Father, What a promise you have given us in this lovely word from your Word. Many of us are facing things that seem way too difficult— finding a new job, having kids quarantined yet again, healing from illness or surgery, grieving the loss of loved ones, ...
A Prayer about Our Work of Reconciliation
Merciful King, As we look at our week and consider the work we think we must get done, may we never forget the most important work you have called us to as your “new creation” in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17): You have made us new, and you are forming a new people, ...
A Prayer about Being the Beautiful Community
(This prayer is based on Dr. Irwyn Ince's book The Beautiful Community: Unity, Diversity, and the Church at Its Best (affiliate link) Beautiful Lord, As we gather for worship today, whether together or apart, may we look around us and consider a crucial question, ...
A Prayer about Signs of Redemption
Almighty and Everlasting God, Who has ever seen a rainbow and not dropped their jaw in wonder at the gleaming glory, the bright beauty emerging from the dark clouds of storm? As we read this true story in Scripture about how sin had gotten so bad that you flooded...