Daily Prayer
A Prayer about Loving Our Enemies
But I say to you, ‘Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.’ Matthew 5:44 Lord Jesus, You knew we’d struggle to love the friend who shared our shameful secret; You knew we’d struggle to pray for the boss who unjustly let us go. And yet, you commanded...
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...
A Prayer about Stilling Our Souls
But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me. Psalm 131:2 Heavenly Father, We live in a hectic, busy, noisy world. Screens blink at us, notifications ding and ping and ring, demanding our...
A Prayer about the Laughter of Hope
Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Genesis 2:23 Creator God, In our season of history, the idea that one woman could belong to one man, that one man could belong...
A Prayer about the Countercultural Nature of Marriage
Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Genesis 2:23 Creator God, In our season of history, the idea that one woman could belong to one man, that one man could belong...
A Prayer about Caring for Those Who Grieve
Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless. Psalm 88:15 Merciful Father, Today we continue our prayer for those grieving an agonizing loss with more words from Psalm 88. For those who feel: “Your wrath lies heavy upon me; and...
A Prayer about Getting Good at Grief
I am shut in so I cannot escape; my eye grows dim through sorrow. Psalm 88:9 Compassionate Father, We don’t pray Psalm 88 enough, and maybe that’s why we’re not very good at grief. Today, we use the words of this dark yet hopeful Psalm to cry out for ourselves or...
A Prayer about the Power of God’s Grace
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” 2 Corinthians 12:9 Gracious Father, Forgive me (us) for underestimating the power of your grace. Your grace is not a Southern woman with “nice manners.” Your grace is not...