Daily Prayer
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 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...