Daily Prayer: July 2021

All Praise to Him

"All Praise To Him"

SOVEREIGN GRACE MUSIC

My soul, praise Yahweh, and all that is within me,

praise His holy name. Psalm 103:1 (HCSB)

Dear Father this song overflows from my heart with gratitude and appreciation for who you are and for your infinite power and love.

[Verse 1]

All praise to Him, the God of light

Who formed the mountains by His might

All praise to Him who names the stars

That sing His fame in skies afar

All praise to Him who reigns in love

Who guides the galaxies above

Yet bends to hear our every prayer

With sovereign pow'r and tender care

[Verse 2]

All praise to Him whose love is seen

In Christ the Son, the Servant King

Who left behind His glorious throne

To pay the ransom for His own

All praise to Him who humbly came

To bear our sorrow, sin, and shame

Who lived to die, who died to rise

The all-sufficient sacrifice

[Verse 3]

All praise to Him whose pow'r imparts

The love of God within our hearts

The Spirit of all truth and peace

The fount of joy and holiness

To Father, Son, and Spirit now

Our souls we lift, our wills we bow

To You, the triune God, we raise

With loving hearts our song of praise

To Father, Son, and Spirit now

Our souls we lift, our wills we bow

To You, the triune God, we raise

With loving hearts our song of praise

Psalm 150:1-2 (HCSB)

1 Hallelujah! Praise God in His sanctuary. Praise Him in His mighty heavens.

2 Praise Him for His powerful acts; praise Him for His abundant greatness.

Amen!!!

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In a world that mocks thoughts and prayers, help us to be aware of our friends who are hurting and in need of help.

Help us Father to be mindful of your heart and motivate us to pray when people and situations come to our minds.

In times of cynicism and apathy, cause us to embrace hope as we pray for your will to be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Amen

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Who am I to judge another?

Help me Lord to pray and not judge.
Teach me to be mindful of my blindspots.

Remind me Father of my faulty vision.

In all things lead me in ways that heal.

Cause me to be a person who bring peace.

In every situation, encourage me to encourage.

I pray for protection from vengeful thoughts.

When I am tempted to judge, help me to resist.

At all times lead me in the ways of love.

Amen

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prayer is a privilege

Many events of recent times have shown me just how privileged we are with the gift of PRAYER.

Those times I have no words…God hears the cry of my heart.

Those times I’m too weak to utter a sound…God is hearing the groans of my spirit.

Those times I’m simply out of any coherent thought processes… He knows the deepest needs that exist in my life.

What a beautiful privilege PRAYER is. What an incredible gift He has bestowed upon His children.

Oh that we would cherish the opportunity we have for communication and that we would be in awe of our ability to tap into the POWER available through Christ.

Prayer is a privilege.

Amen

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prayer for protection

Father God,

We take refuge in You, O Lord. Cover and protect us from all harm. You are the rock of refuge, in whom we can trust. You are faithful and loving, and watch over us everywhere we go.

Be our hope, Sovereign Lord. We praise You for Your power, and it's in this power that helps us stand firm in hope. A hope that points us to Your son, Jesus, and reminds us of all You have done for us.

And You continue to work in us, too, which gives us more hope. Hope for change in us and in the world. So as we ask for you to be our refuge, help us to remember to go out and point others to Jesus, knowing we in Your safe hands.

Amen

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For Those in the Wildfires

Father, we pray for all those affected by the wildfires in the West. Bring comfort and healing to those who need it. Strengthen and protect those who are helping. Please send rain and cooler weather and give everyone a break. Amen

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THE FATHER'S LOVE

I John 3:1 "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called the children of God! And that is what we are!!!

Dear Heavenly Father ~ How can we ever thank you enough for adopting us into Your family, and calling us Your children. For reasons we will never understand, You have chosen us to be heirs of a heavenly legacy and even more remarkable, to be joint-heirs with Your only begotten Son. We are so greatful. How we long to be like Jesus. Transformed into His likeness so that in this life, we may bear the family resemblance for Him. I love You Father! Amen

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Jacob got it Right

Genesis 32:9-& 10 (GW)

9 Then Jacob prayed, “.......LORD, ....

10 I'm not worthy of all the love and faithfulness you have shown me....."

The song by Beatrice B. Bixler express it perfectly. " I Am Not Worthy "

I am not worthy the least of His favor,

But Jesus left heaven for me;

The Word became flesh and He died as my Savior,

Forsaken on dark Calvary.

Chorus:

I am not worthy this dull tongue repeats it!

I am not worthy this heart gladly beats it?

Jesus left heaven to die in my place

What mercy, what love and what grace!

Philippians 2:5-8 (NIV)

5 "..... Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7 but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-- even death on a cross!"

Thank you Lord Jesus for such Mercy, such Love and such Grace. Amen.

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seeing beauty in creation

Father,

Thank You for all the beauty we see around us.

Help us to look beyond it to see the Artist.

Help us not to pass by indifferently, but to notice what You have painted on the canvas of the world. Even in places like coral reefs, which until recently few humans have seen.

Let us not focus on the corruption that has since crept in, but look beyond it to see the beauty of Your person.

In Jesus' Name, Amen

-a prayer by Mike Erich

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knowing you

All I once held dear, built my life upon

All this world reveres, and wars to own

All I once thought gain I have counted loss

Spent and worthless now, compared to this

Knowing you, Jesus

Knowing you, there is no greater thing

You're my all, you're the best

You're my joy, my righteousness

And I love you, Lord

Now my heart's desire is to know you more

To be found in you and known as yours

To possess by faith what I could not earn

All-surpassing gift of righteousness

Knowing you, Jesus

Knowing you, there is no greater thing

You're my all, you're the best

You're my joy, my righteousness

And I love you, Lord

Oh, to know the power of your risen life

And to know You in Your sufferings

To become like you in your death, my Lord

So with you to live and never die

Knowing you, Jesus

Knowing you, there is no greater thing

You're my all, you're the best

You're my joy, my righteousness

And I love you, Lord

Amen

- song lyrics by Graham Kendrick

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Prayer of contentment

Lord help us to be mindful of Your Provision. Help us to see it in its perfection. May we learn to be content in all our circumstances as we completely rely on You for all our needs.

You are everything that we need.

Amen

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enlarge my vision

Lord,

You are a great, mighty, and powerful God.

So why do I often simply see Your world as just involving me? My family? Or my country?

Lord, You are the God over all creation, over all the world, over every inch of land ,and every drop of water. You created each person amazingly unique. Each culture that has a distinct language, each person with a beautiful skin color, each one with a unique way of dressing, and each culture with it's different way of seeing life beautifully expresses Your creativity, and despite the Fall, is an echo of who You are in many ways.

My world is not just me, my family, or my country.

My world is Your world.

Teach me to see beyond what I currently see, beyond what I want to see, and reveal to me how You are working all over the great big huge creation, in the lives of people so markedly different from me that it scares me a little. Okay, maybe a lot. Maybe that's why I keep away, or don't think about it and keep my world small.

But my world must be Your world because you made me in it. And Your world is much bigger than my country. Much bigger than my family. Much bigger than me.

Amen

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TOUGH LOVE

Proverbs 3:11-12

"My son, do not desise the Lord's discipline and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in."

Dear Father, how You cherish your children! Your love for us is relentless and undeserved. Even Your discipline is motivated by compassion. Teach me to accept Your correction with humble gratitude. I do not ask You to withold Your discipline; I only ask that You grant me the wisdom and humility to learn the lesson quickly! I love You. Amen

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Beautiful Perfection

Now you are the body of Christ

and individually members of it.

I Corinthians 12:27 (ESV)

Thank you Father for creating us with individuality giving us personal value, for creating us with interdependence giving us relationship value and for creating us with interactive value giving us mutual love and care for each other. This is the beautiful perfection of the body of Christ in health and harmony.

1 Corinthians 12:24-25 (NLT)

"....God has put the body together such that extra honor and care are given to those parts that have less dignity. 25 This makes for harmony among the members, so that all the members care for each other."

Thank you Father for the Body of Christ and each member who is a vital part in its function and has the privilege ".... to serve one another in love." Galatians 5:13 (NLT)

In the Name of Him who is the Savior and Head of the Church, His Body. Amen!

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A prayer to follow Jesus

Dear Lord,

Please help me to lead my life as Jesus did:

Led by the Spirit.

Walking in mercy and grace.

Seeking to do Your will.

Patiently serving as I wait in hope.

To you be all glory and honor.

Amen

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for mental health professionals

Loving God, way maker, we offer a prayer of thanksgiving for Mental Health professionals, for psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health therapist providers.

We praise you for all the ways you have equipped them with the skills needed to perform their work.

That those they encounter through work, coaching and relationship may experience your reflection, your grace, compassion, mercy, comfort and hope as they struggle through this trying season.

Protect their minds, their very souls. We pray you fill them with your Holy Spirit to strengthen, help and empower them for their mental ealth vocation.

Remind them of your presence God, that in times of isolation and alienation they are not alone, you are near.

Cause them blessed assurance that they are yours, you will bring them through, and that they are deeply loved and seen by you.

May they be encouraged every step of the way.

Give them a praise in their heart for the burden of heaviness.

And last give them rest in you for renewal, so that they may continue the great fight with Faith.

May they be met with a cheerful heart and kind word from everyone they encounter.

In your holy and matchless name we pray. Amen

- prayer by Rev. Babette Chatman

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Powerful prayer

Amen

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for humilty

Sovereign Lord,

Today I am struggling with idols, God. The idol of self: self-reliance, self-righteousness, self-containment, self-preservation, self-dependence.

Instead of relying on You, I seek help in others, or try to do it on my own. Instead of trusting You, I trust myself. Instead of believing what You say about me, I believe what others say about me. Instead of going to Your word for the truth, I look to confirm the beliefs I already have through other sources. Instead of going out into the world and engaging with the things that are different or hard, and the people who think differently and believe differently, I stay inside my self-created "safe" space.

Lord, cut down my pride.

I need to grow.

Remind me daily that I am called to surrender myself to You

Remind me daily to set down my desires and pick up Yours.

When I love myself more than others, give me Your heart.

When I condemn others, teach me grace.

When my anger causes me to sin, reign me in.

When my heart tries to deceive, expose the truth to the light.

When I find myself jealous, make me content.

When I am greedy, give me a generous heart.

When my pride takes over, humble me.

Amen

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JOY AGAINST SORROW

Joni Eareckson Tada understands suffering. Job understood suffering. Many time God's people are called to suffer. I love the testimony of Joni as she relates to suffering.

"God is a master Artist. And there are aspects of your life and character -- good quality things -- He wants others to notice. So without using blantant tricks or obvious gimmicks, God brings the cool, dark contrast of suffering into your life. Those contrasts laid up against the golden character of Christ within you, will draw attention.....to HIM. Light against darkness. Beauty against affliction, joy against sorrow. A sweet patient spirit against pain and disappointment --major contrasts that have a way of attracting notice. You are the canvas on which He paints glorious truths, sharing beauty and inspiring others, so that people might see HIM! ~Joni Eareckson Tada

Gracious Heavenly Father, give your children that are suffering, the heart to see that their suffering is a canvas you can paint your love and show your glory for others to see. For those who are suffering today, grant comfort and peace and healing. Thank You Father. Amen

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The Prayer That Can Change the World

"O God, be merciful to me, for I am a sinner."

Luke 18:13-14 (NLT)

“But the tax collector stood at a distance and dared not even lift his eyes to heaven as he prayed. Instead, he beat his chest in sorrow, saying, ‘O God, be merciful to me, for I am a sinner.’ 14 I tell you, this sinner, not the Pharisee, returned home justified before God....”

Heavenly Father this prayer of the humble publican, quoted by Jesus, as the prayer a sinner must pray in first approaching You. It reveals Your holiness, justice, compassion, love, mercy, grace, and forgiveness.

Father it also reveals the publican's brokenness over his sin, his inability to save himself, his desperate need for reconciliation, his confession of his complete hopelessness and his acknowledgment that forgiveness comes from You alone.

Then Father the wonderful and glorious answer to his prayer, as Jesus said: "I tell you, this sinner...... returned home justified before God....”

Thank You Father for the assurance that "....since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Romans 5:1 (ESV)

It is the prayer that can change the world. Thank You Father for all You graciously give us in Your Son. Amen.

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teach me to seek you

O Lord my God,

teach my heart this day

where and how to see you,

where and how to find you.

You have made me and remade me,

and you have bestowed on me
all the good things I possess,

and still I do not know you.

I have not yet done that for which I was made.

Teach me to seek you,

for I cannot seek you unless you teach me,

or find you unless you show yourself to me.

Let me seek you in my desire,

let me desire you in my seeking.

Let me find you by loving you,

let me love you when I find you.

Amen

... a prayer of Anselm

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prayer for health care providers

Dear Lord,

We pray for all the physicians, nurses, and health providers involved in the care of sick and hurting people. We ask that you would give them wisdom of heart and understanding of the mind. Help them to reach past their fleshly abilities and provide care commensurate with your love for those who are hurting. We ask that you would give strength and encouragement as these endeavor to give strength and encouragement to those in their care. Lastly, we ask that you would bless not only these care givers but also their families who often sacrifice in quiet. Amen

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Thankful for Freedom

Father, we thank you for the freedom you have blessed us with. Help us to never take it for granted. At the same time, may we be more thankful for the freedom you have given us in Christ. Amen

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FOURTH OF JULY PRAYER

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FREEDOM

"....proclaim liberty to everyone living in the land..."

Leviticus 25:10 (GW)

Father by your authority you gave the command for the right of freedom to all people. Freedom is a divine right and gift of your grace for the benefit and welfare of the human race. "....And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free..." Genesis 2:16 (NIV)

Father in your wisdom you gave the accountability and responsibility of freedom to all people. We are our brother and sisters keeper. "For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love. Galatians 5:13 (NLT)

Father in your love you gave the limitation of freedom for the protection of all people. Freedom is never the right to do wrong to God or his creation. " Talk and act as people who are going to be judged by laws that bring freedom." James 2:12 (GW)

Thank you Father for the preciousness, power and purpose of freedom that you have so generously given us in creation and in Christ. Amen!

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On the birthday of America

A prayer offered by US Senate Chaplain Frederick Brown Harris in 1943..

Our fathers' God and ours, on the birthday of national independence we confess our dependence upon Thee. Without Thee we are lost in spite of the overwhelming might of our national arms.

We thank Thee for those pilgrims of faith who came hither in their frail barque across mountainous seas and who stepped upon strange shores with the salutation to a new world, "In the Name of God. Amen."

The Nation here established, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal has acknowledged that Name above every name and reverenced it, has built its altars, reared its temples, and raised its steeples, emblems of a faith that points to the skies and wings its sure and certain way to God.

Make that faith of the fathers, we pray, real to us in these tempestuous days. Save us from a freedom of speech so empty that we have nothing worth saying, from a freedom of worship so futile that we have no God to adore, from freedom from want and fear with no creative idea as to how to use our plenty or our security for the redemption of our social order and for the salvation of our own souls.

Let all that is low and unworthy in us sink to the depths. Let all that is high and fine in us rise to greet the morn of a new day confident that the best is yet to be.

Amen

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we press on

When the valley is deep

When the mountain is steep

When the body is weary

When we stumble and fall

In Jesus' name, we press on

When the choices are hard

When we're battered and scarred

When we've spent our resources

When we've given our all

In Jesus' name, we press on

Amen

... excerpted from 'Press On' by Selah

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