Daily Prayer

PRAYER FOR FATHERS

Howard Dill ~ my father (me on the right)

Dear Father, You are the perfect father, our Heavenly Father. You are the model. However in our fallen world, not everyone has experienced a good or wonderful father. Today we pray for those, that your love and compassion will embrace them, and they can know a loving father by loving You.

For those of us who were so fortunate to have godly fathers, like mine, I thank You. He was human, he was flawed, but he loved me deeply and was devoted to You.

Today we celebrate and pray for all Fathers, everywhere.

Amen

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Praying for You

Romans 15:13 (NLT)
¹³I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.

The Apostle Paul’s prays for the Christians in Rome, and really for Christians everywhere, that in their hardships, difficulties and challenges of living for Christ they will experience the joy, peace and hope only Christ can give. And this comes as a result of their trust in God and the power of the Holy Spirit at work in their life.

I pray dear friends and fellow believers that you also “will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.” That the joy and peace of God will sustain you in your daily walk with Him.

Jeremiah 17:7-8 (NLT)
⁷ “But blessed are those who trust in the LORD and have made the LORD their hope and confidence. ⁸They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit.

God bless you in the name of Him who gives us abundant and eternal life, Jesus our Lord.

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Steadfast faith and love

Father God, we thank You for Your church everywhere. We are especially grateful for Your grace to our brothers and sisters who are being afflicted throughout the world. We know that their pain is not the end of the story. Your Son is coming again. He is our hope. Grant to us steadfastness, faith and love in every difficulty. Build us up in our faith and help us to build one another up in love. Make us worthy of the wonderful calling that we have received. Amen

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Be Still

Be still and know that I am God. -Psalm 46:10

I do and do
and strive and strive
and try to figure things out,
forgetting that life
was meant to be lived
in reliance on you.

Help me to still my body
and my mind
so that I can rest
in your presence,
so that I can know again
that you are God.

Amen

... from The National Association for Christian Recovery website.

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He remembers...

My prayer today is that we all remain mindful of the power of God's Word. That we fall face first into the scriptures and lose ourselves in Him. I pray that we long for the Word. That we hunger for it. Thirst for it. That we would read it and study it and let it change us.

There is so much to learn from the pages of the written word. God shows us that even in our rebellion and disobedience, we can still find Him faithful! What a powerful and loving God we serve.....

Today, purpose to open the pages of our bibles and let Him speak.

"Yet He took note of their distress when He heard their cry;

for their sake He remembered....." (Psalm 106:44,45)

He will always remember His children.....

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Patience

Father,

Give Your people patience. Help us to trust You when faced with trying people and circumstances. Help us to remember Your great patience with us. Help us to put things in perspective that we may not be irritated by little things. Help us to lay aside the unrealistic expectations that so often lead to impatience.

In Jesus' Name,

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PRAYER OF PRAISE

Christ, whose glory fills the skies,

Christ, the true, the only light.

Son of righteousness arise,

Triumph over shades of night;

Dayspring from on high be near,

Daystar, in my heart appear.

Visit then this soul of mine,

Pierce the gloom of sin and grief;

Fill me, radiancy divine,

Scatter all my unbelief;

More and more yourself display,

Shining to the perfect day.

~Charles Wesley 1740

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Integrity

A person’s last words and prayers give deep insight into their heart and faith. Such is the perception that King David’s last words and prayers reveal to us.

1 Chronicles 29:17a & 18 (NLT)
“I know, my God, that you examine our hearts and rejoice when you find integrity there……” ¹⁸ “O LORD, the God of our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, make your people always want to obey you. See to it that their love for you never changes.”

Father I echo David’s prayer for all of us that we will always obey you with our hearts overflowing with love. There is no greater command you have given to us and there is no greater obedience that we can render to you than to love and obey you out of the integrity of a faithful life.

And so Father I would also pray with David: ” Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. ²⁴Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.” Psalm 139:23-24 (NLT)

In Jesus loving and faithful name.

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Freedom

Our gracious heavenly Father,

How thankful we are for the freedom we have in Christ and that we have been freed from the bondage of the Law. Give to us true faith that works in love and help us to hold to the truth of the freedom we have through the victory of Christ. We've been set free to be free. We ask You to protect the Church from false teaching and help us to be discerning as we teach and as we listen. Thank You for Your Spirit who guides us into all truth. Teach us to walk by Your Spirit and not by what feels good or sounds good. We turn away from all godlessness and ask that You grant to us the fruit of the Spirit in increasing measure. We belong to Jesus Christ and are thankful for Your everlasting love that drew us to You.

In Jesus name we pray, Amen

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Today

"The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today." -HB Stowe

Lord help me to live in the now.

Remind me that the past is only useful when it teaches me about how to live today.

Help me to let go of past failures and successes.

Cause me to live in freedom and to not fear the future.

Help me to know that you are the Lord of my future and that all I need to do is trust you today.

You have given this day to me - in that I will rejoice!

Amen

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Self-Control

Father,

I pray for Your people to exercise self-control. I pray it particularly because of this present age, which is hostile to any sort of self-control. Help us resist everything that is set against us to tempt us to follow our impulses. Help us to go against the flow of our culture. But let us not exercise self-control merely for self-control's sake, but to exhibit love for God and our neighbor. So that our self-control may not be a cold, aloof thing, but a warm, loving thing that can attract others to You.

In Jesus' Name,
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MAN'S PLANS ~ GOD'S PURPOSES

Proverbs 19:21
"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails."

Sovereign Lord, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are Your ways higher than our ways and Your thoughts than our thoughts. So I surrender my will to Your will and I pray that only Your purposes will be accomplished in my life. ~ Not my will, but yours be done.~ I love You. Amen.

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Friend

1 Chronicles 27:33 (NIV) ”Hushai the Arkite was the king's friend.

Father as I think of King David and how he was surrounded by a great variety of people who sustained him on the battle field and in city life. All played their strategic roll from servants to counselors. None were more important to him than Hushai.

Father, to be singled out and distinguished as the friend of King David was not only a great honor but also an acknowledgement of his personal value to David. We can be many things to people but to be their friend is truly special.

And Father you gave Hushai to David as a gift to express your love and kindness to him. A friend who was both wise and honest. What a blessing and encouragement he must have been to David.

Father, how thankful I am for the gracious friends you have brought into my life. My wife, children, extended family, friends near and far, all incredibly important to me and without whom life would be a void too lonely to imagine. Thank you, Father, for all of my beloved friends, and especially for Jesus the friend of all who will embrace him.

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Pour Out Your Heart

Help me trust in You at all times; help me to pour out my heart to You, God, for You are my refuge (Ps. 62:8). O Lord, help me not be afraid to speak to You what's on my heart. Your Word says You know my thoughts and my actions, and You know what I'm going to say before a word forms on my tongue (Ps. 139:1-4). You will never be offended when I pour out the earnest despair and bitterness that wells in my heart. You desire for me to cry out in my agony, and You can take my feelings of anger, dismay, and confusion. In pouring my heart out to You, I rid myself of soul-cancerous bitterness. I also make room for You to pour in Your healing.

Amen
Praying God's Word Day by Day (Beth Moore)

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