Daily Prayer
A Prayer about Knowing the Way of Peace
Oh, Father, What a beautiful transformation takes place in your servant Zechariah after his son John the Baptist is born. Where before he doubted your power and your ways, now he affirms your provision and your plan. He sees his newborn son, and he knows that he will...
A Prayer about the Day of Perfect Peace
Lord of hosts, You know that this year has been anything but peaceful. As Christmas approaches, keep our minds fixed on our Prince of Peace who brought us perfect peace with you. Remind us that he will one day restore perfect peace on this earth when he renews all...
A Prayer about Being Still
Highly exalted Jesus, You are the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Forgive us forgetting that. In the final days before Christmas, many of us are hustling so hard to finish up work or finish up celebration prep that we forget what this week is all about. Still us,...
A Prayer about Being a Peace-Publisher
Lord God, What a happy calling you have given us as your church: To bring good news, to publish peace, to bring good news of happiness, to publish salvation, to share the peace that comes when “God reigns” (Isaiah 52:7). Whether we gather together or apart today,...
A Prayer about Celebrating Joyfully
Lord, I love how theologian Tom Wright translates Philippians 4:4 and what he teaches us about joy in his advent devotional: Joy goes “hand in hand with hope: it doesn’t mean that everything is already just as it should be, only that with Jesus now enthroned as Lord...
A Prayer Thanking God for Joy in the Hard Times
Oh, Lord, You know it’s been a hard year for many. So much loss—lost health, lost lives, lost jobs, lost dreams of celebrating all sorts of things together. And yet, today and every day, I want to thank you for the inexpressible joy that entered the world with Jesus....
A Prayer about a Joyous and True Story
Author God, I love the true stories you give us in your Word, and how fun it is to think about all of the wild and wonderful characters you wrote into the story of Jesus’ birth. I just imagine those burly, brave shepherds, accustomed to fending off predators who might...
A Prayer about the Coming Joy
Lord Jesus, As we sing advent songs like “In the Bleak Midwinter,” and as many of us feel the bleakness of this past year, we rejoice in the truth of poet Christina Rosetti’s words: “Our God, heaven cannot hold Him Nor earth sustain, Heaven and earth shall flee away...
A Prayer about Sorrow Ending Forever
Father, Today I come to you with a heavy heart on behalf of all who have a heavy heart this Christmas. Maybe it’s not facing the Christmas of 2020, the Christmas of such a strange and isolating year, of such a year full of new kinds of hard. Or maybe every Christmas...