Daily Prayer
A Prayer about God’s Covenant of Peace
For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you… Isaiah 54:8-9 Promise-keeping Father, In this world so set on strife, what a profound promise this is: Even where there is utter chaos on this earth, your...
A Prayer about Dysfunctional Families
So now, come on, let’s kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal ate him. Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams! Genesis 37:19 Author God, Thank you for your Word which gives us hope that you can redeem even the worst of our...
A Prayer about the Love that Binds Us Together
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 15:5-6 Lover of our Soul, Today...
A Prayer about Remembering the Wonders of the Lord
We will not hide these truths from our children; we will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the Lord, about his power and his mighty wonders. Psalm 78:4 Wonder-Working God, As a lover of stories, I’ve always appreciated Asaph’s call to tell...
A Prayer about Not Judging Others
Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. For you will be treated as you treat others. The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be judged. Matthew 7:1-2 Holy Lord, Help us to correctly understand your prohibition against judging. On...
A Prayer about Our Soul-Thirst
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. Psalm 42:2 Thirst-filling Lord, Today we lift up all who ache for you to appear, all who remember the days we used to lead the procession of praise (Psalm 42:4), all who now suffer turmoil within and attack from without...
A Prayer about Honoring the Elderly
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, may...
A Prayer about Praying God’s Promises Back to Him
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever. Exodus...
A Prayer about Preventing Bitterness
See to it than on one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble and by it many become defiled… Hebrews 12:15 Merciful Lord, May we hear your dire warning to guard our hearts from the toxic root of bitterness....
A Prayer about the Lord’s Discipline
Do not despise the Lord’s instruction, my son, and do not loathe his discipline; for the Lord disciplines the one he loves, just as a father disciplines the son in whom he delights. Hebrews 12:5-6 Heavenly Father, Although your discipline, your correction, your...