Today I offer a prayer of mourning and comfort. I know multiple people, myself included, who have recently experienced great loss. Mourning is an important part of the healing process. People generally agree that ignoring loss, or pretending it doesn’t bother us, is not healthy. Grief is very real, and giving it an appropriate amount…
Category: Prayers
A Prayer for Diligence
Today I offer a prayer for diligence. Diligence is a core characteristic required to cultivate a deep and meaningful relationship with God, and also to disciple our neighbors. This careful, persistent, consistent, intentional effort toward a goal is essential. Without diligence (which is often paired with perseverance) it would be easy to have an “it’s…
A Prayer of Praise for Our Lord God
Today I offer a prayer of praise for our Lord God. We might not always understand His ways, though we can always celebrate Him for who He is, even in the midst of sorrow. Father God You are mighty in deeds and we praise You according to Your excellent greatness. We praise You in Your…
A Prayer of Kingdom Orientation
Today I offer a prayer for orienting us toward the kingdom of God. It’s so very easy to become individually focused – investing in our own personal relationship with Jesus. Of course spending alone time with God is critically important, and I don’t wish to detract from that, though it’s not the entire picture. Jesus…
A Prayer for Expanding Our Patience
Today I offer a prayer for expanding our patience. How many of us struggle with patience? I consider myself to be a patient person, yet I still have limits. By the way, patience is not quite the same thing as endurance – endurance is the ability to weather storms and hardships calmly, while patience is…
A Prayer for Enduring Difficult Times
Today I offer a prayer for faith and endurance in difficult times. I’m not sure what your last twelve months looked like. If you’re one of the many people who have experienced great hardships physically, emotionally, spiritually, or in some combination of those, you are in good company. I pray you find comfort in our…
An Advent Prayer of Adoration
Today I offer a prayer on the advent / Christmas Eve theme of adoration. What better time to praise our Lord God than on the eve of the calendar day on which we celebrate the birth of Jesus? Father God, our Glorious Lord who is mighty in deeds, and overflowing with excellent greatness, we praise…
An Advent Prayer of Love
Today I offer a prayer on the advent theme of love. It’s a broad topic, so we’ll primarily focus on God’s love for us, and our love for others (which is still quite broad…). Father God, our Loving and Steadfast Lord, You have blessed us abundantly and beyond measure. You love us so much that…
An Advent Prayer of Joy
Today I offer a prayer on the advent theme of joy. If you’re anything like me, joy can be ‘hard to find’ in difficult seasons. Yet, God doesn’t withhold joy from us, it is promised to us if only we receive and embrace it (like most/all of God’s blessings). Father God, our Lord of Love,…
An Advent Prayer of Preparation
Keeping on the theme of advent, today I offer a prayer of preparation. God spent 4000 years preparing His people for Jesus’ arrival, and God asks us to prepare our hearts for relationship with Him. We don’t need to ‘have it all together’, just be ready and willing for God to work in and through…