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A Prayer to Wake with a Joyful NoiseBy Kristine Brown “Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!” (Psalm 100:1 ESV) When I wake up each morning, I’m rarely ready to face the battles awaiting me. As I lay in bed thinking about the day ahead, my mind fixates on the problems I
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A Prayer to Create BoundariesBy Victoria Riollano “If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.” – Romans 12:18 I must admit it. Whenever I think of the word “boundary,” I feel a bit uneasy. The truth is, I have been on both sides of knowing a boundary needs
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A Prayer to Thank God for the Gift of MusicBy Emma Danzey Colossians 3:16 says, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.” Music is amazing. It is a way of expressing
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A Prayer to Be a Humble ServantBy Christine Perry “Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man,
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A Prayer For Clarity and Calm When You’re Feeling Flustered and FrustratedBy Keri Eichberger “Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.” – Psalm 119:105 Have you ever felt desperate for a word of wisdom from God? Uncertain of what steps to take next or how to approach a specific
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A Prayer for When We Need Encouragement in the FaithBy Kyle Norman “Be strong, O people of the land, declares the Lord. Work, for I am with you, declares the Lord of hosts, according to the covenant that I made with you when you came out of Egypt. My spirit remains with you. Fear not.”
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A Prayer for When the Only Words You Have Are ‘God, Help Me’By Laura Bailey “Surely God is my help; the Lord is the one who sustains me.” –Psalm 54:4 NIV So often, when I pray to the Lord, though my heart is heavy, words seem to escape me. The overwhelming needs of my family,
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A Prayer for Radical ChangeBy Chelsey DeMatteis “And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized..” – Acts 9:18 Watching someone you love live their life apart from Jesus is excruciating. You want to be the one to save them, even though you know
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A Prayer to Reflect on Who Jesus Is during LentBy Meg Bucher “Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’” – John 14:6 The Lenten season causes me to take a deep breath each year as Catholic school memories flood my mind.
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A Prayer for When You Feel MisunderstoodBy Christine Perry “She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.” Genesis 16:13 NIV Very few things hurt worse than being misunderstood, especially when the one who
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Moms, I have been where some of you sit. I’ve been through the times of lacking techniques, realizing no one really taught me how to parent. I’ve been having a teenager failing classes, getting in trouble at school, smoking weed, sexual immorality, dishonoring our family, disrespect. I’ve been through wayward children. I’ve been through it all. The following
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A Prayer for When You Are Losing StrengthBy Rachael Adams “When Moses’ hands became heavy, they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other, and so his hands were steady until the sun went down.” –
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A Prayer to Live Free from DiscouragementBy Kristine Brown “I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” (Psalm 121:1-2 ESV) Have you ever felt so discouraged that you didn’t think God was listening? Maybe you prayed and prayed,
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A Morning Prayer to Count Your BlessingsBy Alicia Searl “And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.” – 2 Corinthians 9:8 If I were to be honest with you, I am not a morning person.
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A Powerful Prayer of Safeguard over Your Loved OnesBy Chelsey DeMatteis “But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will
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A Prayer for WitnessingBy Chris Eyte “There was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. The true light that gives light
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A Prayer for Fulfillment When Your Days Feel Dull and DrearyBy Keri Eichberger “When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.’” (John 8:12) The clouds didn’t break for five straight days. Not
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A Prayer for Hope SecuredBy Laura Bailey “But as for me, how good it is to be near God! I have made the Sovereign LORD my shelter, and I will tell everyone about the wonderful things you do.” – Psalm 73:28 NLT Have you ever taken a spiritual gifts assessment? The first time I took one
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A Prayer to Make the Most of Our Time with PeopleBy Lynette Kittle “As has just been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.” – Hebrews 3:15 Sadly, hearing of the loss of someone we know or love brings regret, thinking that if only we
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A Prayer against ComplainingBy Emma Danzey “Don’t grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door!” – James 5:9 Here comes the nagging again. Have you ever been guilty of being a cloud of rain on a sunshine-filled day? In other words, have you been in a
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A Prayer to Surrender AllBy Alicia Searl “Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.’” – Matthew 16:24 I often think about what it must have been like to live in the days of Jesus. Even more, what it must
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A Prayer for a Life of Joy and PeaceBy Chelsey DeMatteis “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.” – Romans 15:13 There is something incredibly beautiful that happens when we allow the joy and
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A Prayer to Make a Positive ImpactBy Ashley Moore “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.” – John 15:5, NLT Unable to contain my deep desire to share my story with others,
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A Prayer for When You Are LonelyBy Christopher Eyte “Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. So he
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A Prayer to Prepare Our Hearts to Serve OthersBy Lynette Kittle “Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to His own advantage; rather, He made Himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness” – Philippians 2:6-7 Many Christians look
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Like many teenagers, I entered my senior year of high school with a list of big plans to be accomplished after graduation, not the least of which was to run as fast as I could from my small town, leaving it in the dust. I would get my degree, land a big-time job in an
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A Prayer for When You Feel ForgottenBy Jessica Van Roekel “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.”
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A Prayer for the Words We SpeakBy Ashley Moore “There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.” – Proverbs 12:18, ESV The words,” sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me, ” couldn’t be further from the truth. From being
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A Prayer for New Beginnings By Amanda Idleman “Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” – Isaiah 43:19 When one season comes to a close, and we see new doors open for our lives,
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A Prayer to Release ResentmentBy Laura Bailey “But Esau ran to meet him, hugged him, threw his arms around him, and kissed him. Then they wept.” – Genesis 33:4 NLT “Fairness is often my standard. Justice is God’s standard,” one of my favorite Bible teachers shared on a recent podcast. I stopped what I was doing,
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A Prayer When You Are Tempted with JealousyBy Emily Rose Massey “Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, [d]and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content” (1 Timothy 6:6-8, ESV). Has interaction on social media ever
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A Prayer for God to Make it HappenBy Meg Bucher “God will make this happen, for he who calls you is faithful.” 1 Thessalonians 5:24 NLT Prayer is powerful. Our prayers are heard in heaven. Scripture says the Lord is already on the move in response before we are done praying. He loves us, His
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A Prayer to Appreciate God’s BlessingsBy Victoria Riollano “So, Esau despised his birthright.” – Genesis 25:34b I get annoyed a lot more than I should. A messy car, loud children, friends who text a tad too much, or a bank account that isn’t as bountiful as I would like could irritate my entire mood. I
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A Prayer to Fight against the Work of the EnemyBy Emma Danzey “Dear friends, although I was eager to write you about the salvation we share, I found it necessary to write, appealing to you to contend for the faith that was delivered to the saints once for all.” – Jude 3 It can seem
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A Prayer to Know God As FatherBy Lynette Kittle “Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me’”– John 14:6 Many people who ask Jesus to be their Lord and Savior stop there. Grateful and relieved to have their sins forgiven with the
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A Prayer to Throw Off Worldly Distractions By Emily Rose Massey “Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the
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A Prayer for GuidanceBy Meg Bucher “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own but will tell you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future.” John 16:13 NLT Admittedly, I tend to retreat when life throws a difficult situation
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A Prayer during a Season of WaitingBy Kyle Norman “I waited patiently for the Lord. He turned to me and heard my cry.” (Psalm 40:1) On a scale of 1 to 10, how patient are you? Do you greet long line-ups with ease? Do you sit in traffic jams in a state of quiet contentment?
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A Prayer to Delight Yourself in the LordBy Victoria Riollano “Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” Psalm 37:4 I have to be honest. There are many things that bring me delight. The sound of a baby’s laugh. The gritty feeling of sand under my feet at a
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A Prayer for the Mind of ChristBy Jessica Van Roekel “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to your own interests but also to others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who though
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A Prayer When You Feel CondemnedBy Emily Rose Massey “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1, ESV). For many years I was driven by perfectionism and the feeling that I had to work successfully or perform well in life to be loved by other people…and be
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A Prayer to Love Others Well By Ashley Moore “Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.” – 1 John 4:7, NLT I snarled under my breath at his curt response to my email. This wasn’t our first less-than-pleasant
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A Prayer about Growing FruitBy Jessica Van Roekel “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.” (Galatians 5:22-23, ESV) Snow-covered fields, leafless trees, and skies laden with steel gray clouds describe the view out my window. It’s wintertime, and frost
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A Prayer for Those Who Fear the End of the WorldBy Lynette Kittle “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid” – John 14:27 The world is sensing the coming of
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A Prayer to Combat Unhealthy ComparisonBy Ashley Moore “We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne.” – Hebrews 12:2, NLT I
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A Prayer for Peace in Unstable TimesBy Emily Rose Massey “You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you” (Isaiah 26:3, ESV). My husband and I are each the first-born children in our families. Although there isn’t any science behind first-born personalities, psychologists have taken note of
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A Prayer for an Anxious HeartBy Ashley Moore “We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly
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We must learn to avoid life’s burnout in order to stay health spiritually, physically, and emotionally.
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Look up, my darling, look up. When I hear Him, this space I’m in, at this plain wooden table, this window with the cobwebs at the corner of the metal screen, this soft rumble of washing machine, this smell of wet dog near my feet, I study the room, looking for clues for what is
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A Prayer for Co-Laboring with GodBy Laura Bailey “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.” – 1 Corinthians 3:6-7 ESV A few months ago, my middle daughter accepted Christ, it was a day we’d prayed for
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A Prayer to Die DailyBy Emily Rose Massey “…that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead” (Philippians 3:10, ESV). As a mom and wife, I am given countless
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A Prayer for True KnowledgeBy Meg Bucher “If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking.” James 1:5 NLT The moment I opened my mouth to speak, words started to fly out of another person’s mouth. Surely there would be a pause
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A Prayer for Seemingly Meaningless TasksBy Ashley Moore “Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.” – Colossians 3:23, NLT Do you struggle with believing lies? Is there a particular deceit that entangles you, trapping you on more than one occasion? For me, that lie is
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A Prayer for Purposed PassionBy Emily Rose Massey “Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what
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A Prayer for CourageBy Meg Bucher “For the LORD your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love, he will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.” Zephaniah 3:17 NLT Circling town for the several-ish time one
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A Prayer for Loved Ones Struggling with AddictionBy Ashley Moore “Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.” – James 5:16, NLT After almost nine years of sobriety, someone I love relapsed
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A Prayer for PatienceBy Rev. Kyle Norman “You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.” – James 5:8 I used to have the proverbial lead foot. Every journey was taken to be a race. I would zip around in my car, weaving in and out of traffic.
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A Prayer for Hungering for the Things of GodBy Emily Rose Massey “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled” (Matthew 5:6, NIV). Years ago, I was involved with a ministry where we would fast and pray for certain periods of time together. One time, we all spent a
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A Prayer to Share Why We PrayBy Chelsey DeMatteis “Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” – Romans 12:12 This title seems odd, right? Why would people want to know the reasons someone prays? Well, I believe when someone knows why we pray and who or what we’re praying for, they get
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A Prayer for When You Don’t Feel Good EnoughBy Molly Law “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. –Psalm 139:13-14 This is something that affects me acutely, and I
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A Prayer of Praise for Who God IsBy Heidi Vegh “Let everything that has breath praise the LORD”. – Psalm 160:6 As readers of the Bible, we often get caught in the mindset of reading the Bible to find ourselves. It is true that the Bible is full of the ways that God loves us,
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A Prayer to See Christ as ProtectorBy Chelsey DeMatteis “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You
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A Prayer to Be Anchored in HopeBy Jessica Van Roekel “We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor for the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.” –
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Finding Hope in Wilderness Seasons When I was a little girl, I lived in rural Mississippi, down a long dirt road that was named after my family, that offered no cable television, few visitors, and long hours playing in the yard. My sister and I also learned to love to play in the wooded area directly
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A Prayer for GratefulnessBy Meg Bucher “The LORD is my strength and shield. I trust him with all my heart. He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy. I burst out in songs of thanksgiving.” Psalm 28:7 NLT Positive thinking is important, but without proper roots, we may force our view of what
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A Prayer Regarding FortitudeBy Jessica Van Roekel “Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion. As they go through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools. They go from strength to strength; each one appears
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A Prayer for When Change Seems ImpossibleBy Ashley Moore “By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence.” – 2 Peter 1:3,
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A Prayer for a Fresh New StartBy Megan Evans “The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease.Great is his faithfulness;his mercies begin afresh each morning.” – Lamentations 3:22-23 (NLT) My least favorite chore is dusting, yet strangely I find it to be one of the most rewarding tasks of housekeeping. There is
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A Prayer for New Rhythms By Ashley Moore “For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.” – Isaiah 43:19, NLT Every year I pray and choose a word that will set
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A Prayer for Your Goals in the New YearBy Molly Law “Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be” – Psalm 139:16 The year is over and done with, and the new year, as it always does, has begun
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A Prayer to Continue Generosity into the New YearBy Alicia Searl “Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.” – 2 Corinthians 9:7 The New Year is upon us and as we begin to possibly ponder resolutions and
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A Prayer for Everlasting PeaceBy Kristine Brown “You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.” (Isaiah 26:3 NIV) The earth-shaking sound of thunder woke me from a deep sleep. Cracking limbs from our tall pine trees started my heart racing. We’d had trees fall on our house
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A Prayer of Surrender to Jesus’ CallingBy Kristine Brown “Then, calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, ‘If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me.’” (Mark 8:34 NLT) Sometimes my life feels like a back-and-forth battle with control.
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A Prayer for When a Child DiesBy Rev. Kyle Norman “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.” (Matthew 2:18) “Chanson is with Jesus.” These were the words to the email that I opened from parishioners. Chanson was their 8-year-old grandson.
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The holiday season is a time of thanksgiving and gratitude. It is a time to reflect. We gather around fires and giggle with family. We host parties, give gifts, and drink hot cocoa. We visit friends and tell old stories. We roast chestnuts on the open fire. (Has anyone ever actually done that?) We thank
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A Prayer for God to Reach Out through My WordsBy Lynette Kittle “Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone”—Colossians 4:6 Lately, it seems I’ve been spending more time online or on the phone with customer service people concerning orders or delivery gone
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A Prayer to Practice Christmas Cheer All Year AroundBy Laura Bailey “Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And
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A Prayer for ChristmasBy Emma Danzey Isaiah 9:6 says, “For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” It is already Christmastime again. The decor is displayed in
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A Prayer for a Silent NightBy Alicia Searl “Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” – Matthew 11:28 Silent Night, a beloved Christmas carol with humble beginnings that dates back to 1816. Written by a young priest in Germany after a longstanding war and fall in
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A Prayer for Peace on EarthBy Tiffany Thibault/p> “And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom He is pleased!’” – Luke 2:13-14. Peace. This world desperately craves for us all to live
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A Prayer for Understanding this Christmas.By Meg Bucher “Like newborn babies, you must crave spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment, now that you have had a taste of the Lord’s kindness.” – 1 Peter 2:2-3 NLT The Holiday Season brings an expectation of family,
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By the time I was 21 years old, I had suffered a lifetime of disappointments. Both of my parents were dead, as well as all my grandparents and most of my aunts and uncles. I had seen more death than most do in a lifetime. I was pregnant multiple times outside of marriage, which carries
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A Prayer to Remember the Afflicted This Holiday SeasonBy Lynette Kittle “Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering” – Hebrew 13:3 During the holidays, probably more than any other time of the year, people are drawn
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Have you ever wondered if you are in alignment with God’s instruction? Have you wondered if that little voice in your head was the devil or God? Have you heard something in your spirit man, then second-guessed whether or not it was God? Or maybe you’ve wondered whether or not you were in God’s will?
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A Prayer to Look to The Lord as Everlasting FatherBy Chelsey DeMatteis “I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and
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Christmas is my favorite holiday of the year. Those who know me will attest to that fact. I begin my holiday planning in October. I’m singing Christmas carols at the first hint of a fallen leaf! I start thinking about Christmas décor and holiday gatherings mid-year. I make lists of friends and neighbors that I’d
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A Prayer for Holiday Meal ConversationsBy Ashley Moore “Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.” – Colossians 4:6, ESV We have a running joke in our house that all conversations around the dinner table somehow always come back to poop. Maybe
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A Prayer for True Joy This ChristmasBy Ashley Moore “You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” – Psalm 16:11, ESV Christmas is a special time that believers and nonbelievers alike enjoy! We take our children to look at
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An Advent Prayer for PeaceBy Emma Danzey John 14:27 says, “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” This time of year can feel hectic and overwhelming. There are a million
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