Daily Prayer
A Prayer about Faithlessness and Faithfulness
Peter answered, ‘Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Truly, I tell you, the very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.’ Matthew 26:33-34 Faithful Lord, How like Peter we all are, thinking we...
A Prayer about Watching Jesus’ Sorrow
“And he said to them, ‘My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and watch.’” Mark 14:34 Father God, This scene in the Garden of Gethsemane the night before Jesus’ arrest both challenges and comforts me. Jesus first confessed to Peter, James, and John ...
A Prayer about the Hope of the Last Supper
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, ‘Take, eat, this is my body.’ Matthew 26:26 Lord God, I confess, I too often read past Jesus’ profound words to his disciples without stopping to think ...
A Prayer about Doing the Lowly Things
If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. John 13:14 Lord Jesus, You know not many of us in Western culture understand about washing feet. Most of us wear shoes and take showers regularly. Help us to see...
A Prayer about Being Betrayed
And as they were eating, he said, ‘Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.’ Matthew 26:21 Faithful Lord, Being betrayed makes our hearts sick. When someone we confided in, believed in, trusted in— a friend, a spouse, a co-worker, a sibling, turns on us, we...
A Prayer about Answers to Prayer
Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Mark 11:23 Miracle-Working Father, We confess, we’re a little...
A Prayer about Dying to Bear Fruit
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. John 12:24-25 Lord Jesus,...
A Prayer about Loving God and Loving Others
‘And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ Mark 12:30-31 Triune God, In a day when hatred seems more common than...
A Prayer about a King Riding a Donkey
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. Zechariah 9:9 Everlasting Father, As we approach the...
A Prayer about Honoring Jesus
In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial. Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her. Matthew 26:12-13 Lord Jesus, How often we, like the...