Honor your father and mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. Father in Heaven, You are the model Father. You show us what it truly means to love our children. While those who don’t know you worry about what they will eat or what they will wear or where they live, You feed the birds of the air and clothe the flowers of the field, and You assure us that if You do those things, You will take care of us, too, so that we will seek first Your Kingdom and … [Read more...]
Remember the Sabbath day, to Keep it Holy
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Lord, You … [Read more...]
You shall not commit adultery
Oh Father, You are of purer eyes than to look upon evil, and You made us, male and female, to express love and fruitfulness through our sexuality. But we, Your creatures, have sullied sex, as we’ve sullied everything else, by misusing it, often by idolizing it. Teach us, like Your servant Job, to make a covenant with our eyes, not to look lustfully on others, but rather to see them as Your precious image bearers, many of them already Your children, many more yet to become Your children, and all … [Read more...]
A Prayer for the Unsaved Souls of Asia and Africa
Our Father in Heaven, We praise you for making the sun and rain fall on more than 4 billions lives in Asia and Africa. Thank you for providing the ever increasing resources for them to make families and flourish. Lord, we now seek your grace and mercy for these people to be saved. We pray that your Holy Spirit will move in this vast landscape and stir the hearts of men and women to reach out to the unsaved. May your divine grace bring them the knowledge of saving grace, and make them … [Read more...]
You Shall Not Take the Name of the LORD your God in Vain
“You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.” “O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!” Heavenly Father, Your creation, the work of Your hands, is a glorious revelation of Your wisdom, power, and goodness. Yet many people fail to recognize that. They are blind to how the heavens declare Your glory, and the sky Your handiwork. I see this especially in the ease with which so many people … [Read more...]
Prayer for the Weak and the Poor
Dear Father in Heaven, We pray for the poor of the world. Lord, you’ve asked us to feed the hungry and clothe the naked. Help us Lord to be obedient to your calling and live as your ambassadors. Help our political leaders to understand the need for the right policies to tackle poverty. Save us from the wrong policy decisions that risks precious resources in wrong avenues. Renew our hearts to care for the poor. Help the poor see the greater Hope and Joy that is in you, and help them see … [Read more...]
You shall not make for yourself a carved image
You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. O Lord, why did You forbid us to … [Read more...]
Prayer for the Agricultural Sector
Dear Father, We pray for the farmers and the agricultural fields of this world. We thank you for blessing us with the ability to innovate modern agricultural technology, and the ingenuity to develop disease resistant crops—both of which have helped us meet the growing demand for food globally. Lord, we thank you for giving us the great minds who played a big role in the development of the modern agricultural sector. Lord, we also remember the countless farmers across the globe who are … [Read more...]
You shall have no other gods before Me.
Father, it’s so easy in this life to let other things take Your place in or thinking. Wealth, friendships, freedom, our own pride—these and many other things we tend to prioritize above You. Free us from these, we pray, and free the many people who have turned the world itself into their god—“atheist” secularists for whom the material world is the ultimate reality, pantheist spiritualists for whom the cosmos is god, primitive animists who substitute many gods for you. Those attitudes are … [Read more...]
A Prayer for the Health of the Global Environment
Dear Father in Heaven, We pray for the well-being of the Nature around us, that you have sustained since the creation. Lord, we pray for you to impart us with wisdom and knowledge to protect and utilize this environment for the goodness of humanity and the creatures within. We seek your help in repairing any damage that has been caused to the environment because of greed and abuse, especially the pollution in air and land. Lord, help the people of this world understand the importance of human … [Read more...]
