Our Father in heaven: What a blessed privilege it is to come before You in prayer. What joy it brings to us to know the assurance of Your presence with us, Your benevolence toward us, and Your lovingkindness that is ours forever because of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Our hearts are bowed and our minds are submitted to You in every way. In humility we seek Your guidance. We must have Your wisdom. We long for discernment born to us and in us by the Holy Spirit. Father, please do Your … [Read more...]
Thank You for the Gift of Jesus Christ
"God who made all things, the earth, the air, the sky; Who gave the light its birth, cares for me..." * But gladly I can thank and praise You O God, for making many like me to share all that you have created. I rejoice with my brothers and sisters. Life is not always pleasant because the first people made a mess of their lives by disobeying You! Thank you for so kindly sending the Lord Jesus Christ to deliver us from the penalty due to all of us for our rebellion. Now "when life's clouds … [Read more...]
We Pray that You will Raise up Leaders
Dear Father, As the infinitely wise, omnipotent, awesome, patient creator, we come to ask that you will help us raise up leaders who will guide us in obedience to your ancient command. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:28 (ESV) May these people guide us to use carefully and generously … [Read more...]
We Seek to Spend Quiet Time in Your Presence
Yes, today I desire to spend just some quiet time away from the hustle and bustle of everyday living. Quiet time in Your presence Lord, observing the multitude of magnificent things around me, your animals, the birds, and yes even the crawling insects, the flowers, the shrubs, the trees, the sky and clouds being moved by your breath upon this grand plan of yours. In all that I will worship today and not forgetting it tomorrow. Amen To read our prayer guide, click here. To learn more … [Read more...]
We Pray for Holy, Loving, Godly Dominion
Our Father in heaven, we confess that as children of Adam we have sinned, both in him our covenant head and by our own immediate actions. You created us to be Your covenant representatives, to subdue and rule the earth for Your glory and our neighbors’ benefit by transforming wilderness into garden that we are then to cultivate and guard. But we chose to seek our own glory instead, and soon every imagination of our hearts was only evil continually, and so in Your justice You judged us and the … [Read more...]
We are Grateful for this Beautiful World
Father, thank you for this beautiful world that You have given to us to live out our lives on this side of glory. We are grateful for its vastness and its diversity. We are blessed by its resources and its resourcefulness in renewing itself day by day and season by season. Help us, O’ Lord, to be wise stewards of your creation. Guide us as we seek to use it for our good and for Your glory. Let us never abandon or abuse any of Your gifts to us including our environment, but let us be mindful … [Read more...]
America, the Beautiful
O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! O beautiful for pilgrim feet, Whose stern impassion’d stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness! America! America! God mend thine ev’ry flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law! O beautiful for heroes proved In … [Read more...]
We Thank God for Forgiveness and Pray That He Would Give Us His Heart for the World
Merciful Lord God, We thank you for calling us to prayer in the Spirit of Adoption, by whom we cry to you, "Abba! Father!" We thank you for your Word, by which we know "that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God." We thank you that through Jesus Christ all things are made new, and we yearn for the fullness of the promise. We confess that we have too often used your creation thoughtlessly. We have sinned in … [Read more...]
We Pray for “Daily Bread”
Father, we come to You requesting "daily bread" for our brothers and sisters the world over because we know when the Bride of Jesus has food, the hungry in their neighborhood will have food. Wait, forgive us, your children for the many times we have enjoyed plenty to eat and not even considered the hungry in the world nor how their hunger may be addressed. May those You raised up with the means to feed the poor prosper and increase, but teach us that physical food ought never to take the lead … [Read more...]
We Pray for Those who are Working to Alleviate Poverty and Suffering
Creator of all things, King of the Universe, I praise you for the wonderful creation you have made, in which you have displayed your infinite wisdom, glorious creativity, almighty power, and love of beauty and complex design. I praise you also that you are a holy judge. When Adam and Eve rebelled against your law, you cursed your creation so that while it still bears abundant testimony to your creative goodness, it is now a continual reminder to us, as sinful descendants of Adam and Eve, of our … [Read more...]
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