Daily Prayer
A Prayer about Where to Turn in Danger
Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might. Daniel 2:20 Saving God, Few of us have ever faced the threats of a despot king as Daniel did, but many of us have faced the threat of danger from an unjust boss, a biased system, or a...
A Prayer about the Perfection God Promises
You therefore must be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect. Matthew 5:48 Heavenly Father, As a recovering perfectionist, I confess, this verse always makes me anxious when I first read it. But then I reread a commentary on Matthew,* and the author reminds...
A Prayer about Being Open to Learning New Truths
“You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they cast him out. John 9:34 Jesus, our Glorious Teacher, Open our eyes, remove our blindness, that we may see more of your glory. Forgive us for any ways we are like the various groups in the story of the...
A Prayer about True Freedom
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1 Merciful Father, When the apostle Paul told the Galatians they had been set free for freedom, he wasn’t talking politics; he was talking about the...
A Prayer about Being Truly Transformed
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Romans 12:2 Everlasting God, I did it again. I just scrolled away twenty minutes, looking at this and that, following this trail on someone’s post about their wayward cat, ...
A Prayer about the Wisdom We So Desperately Need
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight. Proverbs 9:10 Awesome God, In this confusing and chaotic world, how desperately we need your wisdom. Parents need your wisdom to know how to help their children stay...
A Prayer about Being an Exile on Earth
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. Hebrews 11:13 Author God, I love how your Word reminds us of things we know...
A Prayer about the Questions God Asks
Where have you come from, and where are you going? Genesis 16:8 Pursuing God Thank you for chasing after us when we try to run away. Like Hagar in the wilderness, we can run ourselves into the ground, but you seek us, and you draw us out of our hiding, asking...
A Prayer about Believing that God Is for Us
This I know, that God is for me. Psalm 56:9 Holy and Merciful God, I admit, as I was reading this Psalm aloud in prayer the other day, I thought, how could David say these words so confidently: “This I know, that God is for me.” I thought about what a “big sinner”...
A Prayer about the Price Paid for Us
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 1 John 4:10 Holy God, Redeeming Son, Sanctifying Spirit, How we thank you for the precious gift of a debt of our sins fully paid. Help us to...