Father, God, I like the Thanksgiving season and the times family and friends can be together, but how I long to have an attitude of gratitude in all things all the time. Please remind me often that giving thanks in everything and every situation is pleasing to You. I am profoundly grateful for my bride, […]

Dear God, I fall on my face today fearing the familiar stories of Your life among us will become ho hum and ordinary. Please don’t let that happen to me. Please, please help me keep the awe of the sinless life of Jesus and his horrible death for me from becoming ordinary. I want to

LORD Jesus, I am looking to Your Word today to keep all the competing demons away. Humbly I ask: When I am in need of peace? Please send me Your peace, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind (Philippians 4:6). When I am lacking in strength? I pray You will be my refuge and

My Heavenly Father, I often wish I could put blinders on when I pray. Too easily I am distracted by the noise around me…election pathology, runaway inflation, rampant push for more taking lives of unborn babies, border porosity, crime in high places, threats and rumors of wars – even nuclear wars. In my best mind

O, God…my Father, there is so much evil afoot in our land and it seems like we are sinking into the abyss of evil on so many fronts. Please keep me focused today on the FACT You are still in charge of Creation and especially our nation. Help me today to remember that whatever today

Dear LORD, instead of trying to fix myself today, help me fix my thoughts on You, the Lover of my soul. Rather than using my energy to beat myself up, I need encouragement to redirect it to communicating with You—trusting and praising You. I want to be like those who look to You and have a

Father, sometimes things surprise my equilibrium and I despise those times. Help me not to let unexpected events throw me off course. Instead of ever getting upset or anxious, I want to respond calmly and confidently—remembering that You are with me all the way to the end. Fear not, for I am with you; Be not

Oh, LORD my God, my heart longs to trust in You alone. I want to truly and fully be my best self with You. I deeply desire You to bring out the best in me. Please bring out the gifts You have implanted in my soul and make me more like Jesus…today and every day.

Dear LORD, as I read Your History of patience with Your Chosen people in their persistent and pernicious apostasy, I read again and again where you finally said ENOUGH! How close are we as a nation reaching the tipping point? What will it take for us to move back from the brink? What can I

Dear God and Ruler of the Universe, we have voted as a nation and some of the results I rejoice in and others I do not. What does this election cycle portend for us as a nation? Since I don’t know what the immediate future holds, help me rest assuredly in your strong and might