Daily Prayer

A Prayer for Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia

The following prayer comes from Bob Hostetler's Prayer Blog.

Abba, Father, God of all,
hear my prayer for the people of Egypt,
Jordan,
and Tunisia,
as political unrest and turmoil
rage in their lands.

Lord, please protect the people.
Please watch over them.
Bring about constructive change,
increasing freedom,
and peace.
Let justice roll on like a river,
righteousness like a never-failing stream!

I pray especially for my brothers and sisters in Christ throughout those lands, that you will protect them as you protected your people in the days of Esther and Mordecai.

For all who are afraid, send protection.
To all who are angry, bring peace.
On all who pursue righteousness, shower success,
in Jesus' name, amen.

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STAY IN YOUR LANE

Living in the Los Angeles area we are faced with freeway driving everyday. I am always horrified when someone in front of me is swerving from lane to lane, as many times that ends up in an accident. We are on a Spiritual Freeway, and need to take the advice of Proverbs.

Proverbs 4:25-27 "Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you. Make level paths for your feet and take only ways that are firm. Do not swerve to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil.

Dear Lord, Help me to stay in my lane, to look straight ahead and fix my eyes on You. Mark out a straight path for my feet, and help me to stick to it. Don't let me get sidetracked and swerve from lane to lane ~~ Keep me on the path that leads to eternal life. Amen

Amen

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For Thou Art with Me

Psalm 23:4

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.”

There’s nothing, my friend, that will bring you more face-to-face with God than going through the dark valleys of life. When you are there, you are going to cling to His garments and hold onto His hand. You won’t stray far from the fold in the dark. Do you believe that He is with you? The ultimate Sovereign is your loving Savior. You will not have to cross Jordan alone. You will not appear before the judgment of a Holy God alone.

You are not going to die alone. ~Adrian Rogers

What a joyful promise! You are not alone! Write these words on a card and post it in a place where you can see it all the time: “I am not alone. God is with me.” ~Amen.

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Be Thankful in All Things

Dear Heavenly Father,
You are the one who is master of my stubborn heart and I give it once again into Your loving hands. I pray, dear Lord, that You would take my hands and make them beautiful in Your sight. May I wash the dishes with a heart of thanks; thanks for the food You provide, for the dishes that hold our meals ,and for the soap and water that make the dishes clean again. Thank you, Lord, for hands that are able, for a mind that knows, and feet able to stand in front of that sink each day. Thank you, Father, for washing my heart and making me clean. Thank you for being willing.
Amen

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He who sings, prays twice.

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Valentines Day Prayer

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. [1Corinthians 13:4-8]

Lord, when I read these verses I think about how much my life needs your help to be loving. I come to you with a repentant heart confessing my envy, my arrogance, my selfishness and my irritability.

Lord, fill me up with patience and kindness. Help me to rejoice with the truth. Give me the strength to bear other's burdens ans to believe in your workings in the people around me. Help me to hope Lord.

Lord, thank you that love never ends and never fails. Fill me with your love.

Amen

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HAVE MERCY ON ME. . .

"Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am in distress. My sight is blurred because of my tears. My body and soul are withering away" . . . . Psalm 31:9

Received an email today from a young woman in our former church up North. She is like a daughter to me, and is feeling David's heart in this Psalm. She is under a huge family burden that I cannot share. But our Heavenly Father knows every detail, every hurt, every burden, so will you join me in asking Him to reach down and comfort her and begin working out the answers for these cries for help.

Dear Lord, you have promised that when we call out to you, you hear us. Lord hear our collective prayers for the dear child of Yours. Thank you. Amen.

Amen

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When God Says No

B.M. Palmer in Theology of Prayer, tells of a woman who had spent the summer away from her children, and was quite anxious to get back to them. When she learned that all the rooms on a certain steamer were taken, she wept bitterly. Because she couldn't get a passage on any other ship, she was detained two weeks in NYC. But the sorrow of being delayed was turned into thanksgiving when, within a few days, she learned that the vessel that denied her passage was buried at the bottom of the Atlantic. She didn't see the "no" as a wonderful answer to prayer until the whole story unfolded.

We ask for health, but often sickness and suffering or something less than wealth is the best way to produce holiness and maturity in us. God always has something far greater in store for us even when we can't see it.

Dear Lord, give us the grace to except no for an answer even when it hurts. In Jesus Name Amen.

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Dear Lord,
I feel as though I am slipping. Please help me carve out that time each day to spend in Your Presence. I need You.
Amen

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Reaching for God

Today, Lord, let me listen for you in each sound I hear.
Let me look for you in each sight I see.
Let all my senses draw toward you like a sunflower to the sun.

Let all my thoughts and words and actions reflect you like a mirror.
Amen

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Jesus ~ My Shepherd

Dear Lord Jesus, You are my Shepherd, leading my heart into safe green fields and beside quiet pools. I choose to follow You out of the chaos of the world's noisy traffic. I choose to listen to Your strong calm voice rather than to the voices of the world that stir up anxiety and fear within me. I choose to take my place with Your family and seek pasture with Your flock now and forever. I love you, Amen.

Fairest Lord Jesus

Ruler of all nature,

O Thou of God and man the Son:

Thee will I cherish,

Thee will I honor,

Thou my soul's glory, joy and crown.

Fair are the meadows,

Fairer still the woodlands;

Robed in the blooming garb of spring;

Jesus is Fairer

Jesus is Purer

Who makes the woeful heart to sing!

Amen

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Nourish Your Soul

Nourish your soul with Bible reading. It will prepare a spiritual feast for you. You recall that one and the same Word of God extends throughout Scripture, that it is one and the same Utterance that resounds in the mouths of all the sacred writers, since he who was in the beginning God with God has no need of separate syllables; for he is not subject to time. The Scriptures are in fact, in any passage you care to choose, singing of Christ, provided we have ears that are capable of picking out the tune. The Lord opened the minds of the Apostles so that they understood the Scriptures.

That he will open our minds too is our prayer. ~Amen

~ Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 A.D.

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Prayer for Parents and Children

The Old Testament ends with one of the sweetest promises in all of scripture. This is how the prophet Malachi puts it:

"Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction."

Don't you love the way that it speaks about hearts turning? I know of families that need God's help to turn parent's and children's hearts toward each other. Please join me in prayer.

Father, we come to you as parents confessing our obstinate hearts. Turn our hearts Lord to our children. Help us to see our children with your eyes. We need your perspective and your wisdom. We need your heart for our children.

We ask you to turn the hearts of our children back to home. We pray for every prodigal and every wounded child. Turn the hearts of our children lord and help them to see us with your eyes. They need your heart Father.

Finally we ask for every orphan. We pray for those of all ages who are without parents. Turn the hearts of these dear Father to spiritual moms and dads who have hearts turned towards them.

We thank you that you have chosen the title of Father. We pray in your name.

Amen

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A prayer of abandonment to God's will

Jesus, my Savior, you are the Sovereign Good; here is my life and my will. Dispose of me according to your good pleasure. I acknowledge, Lord, that of myself I can do nothing; but, provided that after having given me the grace of drawing me to you and having given me the knowledge of the truth, you do not withdraw from me, nothing will be impossible to me.

Amen

- St. Teresa of Avila

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