Dear Father, El Shaddai, I am daily aware of more grief, O LORD, than I can rightly consider, of more suffering and scandal than I can respond to, of more hostility, hatred, horror, and injustice than I can engage with compassion…remind me that I am but a small and finite creature, never designed to carry the vast abstractions of great burdens, for my […]
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LORD God, my Father, my Abba, please fill my heart today…all day with gratitude for your wonderful grace to me. I bless Your Name for all the wonderful things you have brought into my life. Thank you for our home, for my wonderful wife and partner, for the chance to do honorable work, for our
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Good Morning, LORD. Let me start this day and every day with a prayer of thanksgiving to You, Father. Cause me to start each day with a prayer for Your protection. Shield me from misfortune and from those who look to hurt me. Bless me for I am Your devoted child who finds purpose in
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I find Scottish minister, John Baillie’s prayer helpful and encourage you to make its words your own today:Invade all my thoughts, O LORD. Pervade all my imaginations Suggest all my decisions. Make Your home in the most secret place of my will and inspire all my actions. Be with me in my silence and in
O, LORD, I see Your glory all around me, God. In every sunrise and in every blade of glass, in every storm bearing down and in every rainbow thereafter, I see Your awesome dominion. I am so grateful for the blessed rain the past few days. Your Holy Word tells me everything I need to
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Thank You, Father, for never abandoning me. Even when I feel like You’ve closed a door in my life, You always open a window, pull me out of my misery, and set me down on greener pastures. I know You hear my prayers, Lord. I have faith that You’ll answer them according to Your will, not mine.
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Dear LORD God, my Father, please keep my heart soft and my eyes attuned to needs in the world I can meet in Your name. I want to be more loving, caring and sensitive to needs around me be willing to do what I can, in Your strong and mighty Name, to meet those needs.
I need You, Lord, now more than ever. I long for Your peace to quiet my soul and stop my tears from flowing. I need to feel Your embrace in my life. Help me to keep my eyes fixed on You throughout my trials and tribulations. You’ll never abandon me, and I will keep my
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LORD, Jesus, sometimes the things I do will make You happy. Sometimes the things I do make You sad. But, PTL, I know there is nothing I can do that will ever make You leave me. So, Father, today make me strong and courageous. Help me not to be afraid or terrified because of the enemies without
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Great God, give me the strength it takes to listen without judgment and speak without criticism…to trust rather than to fear, to try again and again to make peace even when peace eludes me.. I ask for the vision to be a builder of the human community rather than its destroyer. I ask for the
