Daily Prayer
A Prayer about Living like We’re Dying
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. Psalm 90:12 Heavenly Father, In the novel I just read, a professor gives her college English students a short essay question: “What would you do if you knew you only had forty days left to live?”*...
A Prayer about Honoring the Aging
The glory of the young is their strength; the gray hair of experience is the splendor of the old. Proverbs 20:29 Everlasting Father, In a world that often marginalizes or mocks the elderly, transform us into people who honor and value the elderly. Even as we age,...
A Prayer about Those Who Turn Away from Jesus
After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. John 6:66 Heavenly Father, This must be one of the saddest verses in all of Scripture. Not too long before this, Jesus had fed well over five thousand people with five loaves of bread and...
A Prayer about How God Supplies Every Need
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19 Merciful God, Thank you for your extravagant generosity to us. As we bring what we consider to be our needs before you today, may we trust that you will...
A Prayer about Our Real Superpower
I can do all things through him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13 Lord Jesus, Forgive me. I realize that like many others in our Western individualistic culture. I have taken Paul’s proclamation about learning to be content in all sorts of circumstances and...
A Prayer about Meditating on Good Things
Finally brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable — if there is any moral excellence and if there is anything praiseworthy — dwell on these things. Philippians 4:8...
A Prayer about What to Do with Anxiety
The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Phil 4:5-6 Ever-present Lord, In these troubling days, Thank you for this reminder of what to do with our...
A Prayer about Our Reason for Rejoicing
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Philippians 4:4 Gracious Lord, In these days of sorrow over wars and plagues and division, help us understand what Paul is not saying and what he is saying. He’s not saying, Cheer up! Put on a happy face! He’s...
A Prayer about Being of the Same Mind
I plead with Euodia and I plead with Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord. Philippians 4:2 Uniting Lord, We confess, the apostle Paul could have called out any one of us here: “I plead with [insert your name here] and [insert someone of a different mind...
A Prayer about Being Transformed by Love
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinithians 13:13 Shaping Spirit, Yesterday we meditated on the wondrous love of God. Today we ponder how that love changes us. We know when we read 1 Corinthians 13 that it...