Daily Prayer
A Prayer Thanking God for His Covenant of Peace
Promise-keeping Father, In this world so set on strife, what a profound promise this is: Even where there is utter chaos on this earth, your steadfast love shall never leave us, your “covenant of peace shall not be removed” (Isaiah 54:10). We don’t use the word...
A Prayer for Grieving the Death of a Loved One
Most merciful God, Thank you for your Word, which offers joyous hope for those who die having trusted in Christ for salvation. Though you don’t give us all of the specifics, you do give us every reason to rejoice for them even as we grieve our loss: On the cross,...
A Prayer Thanking God for Rest
Father, I opened my iPad this morning to a kind gift sent by a friend, an elegantly designed image of the verse, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in...
A Prayer about Seeking Peace and Pursuing It
Peacemaking God, Make us, like David, people who seek peace with our enemies. We desperately need your intervention to live out these words, “Keep [our] tongues from evil And [our] lips from speaking deceit” (Psalm 34:13). “If possible, so far as it depends on [us], ...
A Prayer about Deliverance from Fear and Shame
Oh Father, How grateful I am for the true stories you tell in your Word about men and women who felt fear and shame. In Psalm 34:4, the man “after God’s heart,” young David, cries out after what might have felt like a very fearful and shameful experience: ...
A Prayer about God’s Best Plan for Us
All-seeing God, It is near the end of January, and many of us have already seen good plans we made through prayer and counsel, disrupted. Whenever our plans on this earth are disrupted or diverted, help us to remember what a great promise you gave the Israelites, ...
A Prayer about the Gift of Prayer
Dear Father, Thank you for the gift of prayer: Not only have you invited us to share our innermost thoughts with you— the sins and sorrows we don’t want to share with anyone else, but you have also invited us to share our prayer needs with other praying believers. ...
A Prayer about Our Inescapable God
All-seeing, All-knowing God, I admit, there have been times in my life, when it both frightened and irritated me that I could not escape from your presence. Thankfully, I know now that you pursue us in our sin, seek us out in our hiding, to draw us back to you. You...
A Prayer about Giving Thanks When It’s Hard
Good Father, We confess that sometimes this command seems impossible to obey. How do we give thanks when we feel immersed in the fallenness of this broken world, in our own sin, in the harm caused by others’ sin, in the pain and suffering of racism, unemployment,...
A Prayer for Inauguration Day
A prayer for Inauguration Day: Almighty and Everlasting King, We humbly bow before you today, honoring you as the one true king of the only kingdom that has already begun and will last eternally. Until the day comes when we live with our king in the new heavens and...