inspirational: Prayer for the Day
- 08/18/11 04:48 AM
Dear God, It is so hot and dry in my little part of this world. Then in other places, they've had floods and too much rain recently. I pray that you will balance out the weather, that a soft and steady rain would fall to water the dry earth and that the sun and refreshing breezes would blow across the flooded areas to dry up the excess water. I pray for your protection from the elements and your provision for every need. I pray for souls that are dry and desolate, that your Spirit will nudge at their heart's door and … (1 comments)
inspirational: Prayer for the Day
- 08/17/11 01:38 AM
Dear Father in Heaven, my hope is in your unfailing love. I acknowledge that you are the source of all that I am. You are the one who gives me the ability to work, plan, and execute. Help me to keep my mind on your abilities, not my abilities. Please show me how to maintain this balance of your abilities and desire to do for me and through me and my abilities that you have given me to use in work and ministry. I pray that, with your guidance, I will use my abilities to the fullest at home, work, and … (2 comments)
inspirational: Prayer for the Day
- 08/15/11 04:10 AM
"Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence...Restore unto me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your generous Spirit. Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners shall be converted to You...O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Your praise. For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart--These O, God, You will not … (3 comments)
inspirational: Prayer for the Day
- 08/10/11 02:48 AM
"Bondservants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God." God I am aware of so many people who just work for a paycheck, serve in some position out of duty, "buck" the system, and just do not have the right attitudes in work, ministry, school...and life in general. Please help them, and help me, to work, minister, and live life with the attitude of obeying the rules, being sincere and doing our very best. We should be appreciative of our employers, thankful for our "shepherds," supportive of … (3 comments)
inspirational: Prayer for the Day
- 08/09/11 01:29 AM
"Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour" (1 Pet. 5:8). Dear Lord, I am so aware of how Satan picks at me and tries to trip me all the time. I know there are spiritual dangers around me. Please help me to remain alert and to be under the Holy Spirit's control at all times. I want to draw near to you, so the devil will flee. Please protect me and my family from harm and evil. Thank you for your love, concern, and protection. In Jesus' name, amen … (6 comments)
inspirational: Prayer for the Day
- 08/03/11 01:54 AM
God, children so often try parents' patience. They are quite a challenge to raise. I can see how you must feel, looking at Your children. You must feel like you are running out of patience with us so many times. Thank you for holding back your wrath, for disciplining in love, for allowing me to learn my lessons. It's not always easy being a parent...or a child. Please help me be the best at what you have planned for me. And please forgive me for trying your patience. Amen … (3 comments)
inspirational: Prayer for the Day
- 07/28/11 02:03 AM
Dear God, Thank you for all of the special people you have placed in my life to complete me. Thank you for my family, for my few friends who are truly friends, for my Christian brothers and sisters. I pray now for those who do not have a special person to complete their lives. Please send the right person along who can be the one to offer encouragement, friendship, loving guidance, unconditional love, and to just be there. I pray that a bond of Christian love with develop and that both people will be uplifted. Please forgive me for not always … (8 comments)
inspirational: Prayer for the Day
- 07/25/11 02:22 AM
Dear God, Today I'm thinking of marriages. God, You started out putting one man and one woman together to help each other through life and to begin a family to love and nurture and replenish the earth. This is the traditional family as You intended. I pray for those who seek to redefine marriage as any other union, that You will open their eyes and show them the truth. I pray that the Truth will set them free. I pray for couples who are married, that You will anoint their marriages and help them to have good communication and to think … (4 comments)
inspirational: Prayer for the Day
- 07/23/11 01:29 AM
Dear God, I pray for all those who are reading this devotional, that You will touch their lives in great and mighty ways. Please draw them closer to You and provide: Comfort on difficult days, Smiles when sadness intrudes, Rainbows to follow the clouds, Laughter to kiss their lips, Sunsets to warm their hearts, Gentle hugs when spirits sag, Friendships to brighten their being, Beauty for their eyes to see, Confidence for when they doubt, Faith so that they can believe, Courage to know themselves, Patience to accept the truth, And love to complete their lives. Thank You God for Your … (6 comments)
inspirational: Prayer for the Day
- 07/22/11 02:16 AM
Dear Heavenly Father, I come before you to ask a special blessing of health and prosperity upon the poor. Though they may be poor in the eyes of the world, may they be rich in spiritual blessings and happiness. Though they may live in meager shelters or be homeless, may they find warmth and love. Though they may not have material possessions, may they have food to eat, clothes to wear, and place to sleep. I pray that this season, this year and in the days ahead, every need be met whether spiritual, emotional, or physical. I pray that doors will … (0 comments)
inspirational: Prayer for the Day
- 07/20/11 12:57 AM
Dear God, Open my eyes that I may see every divine appointment You prepare for me. May I study Your Word and spend time in prayer and fellowship with You and take time to be still and know You, so that I will be aware and prepared for those special opportunities and appointments that come to me. Please forgive me for my failure to be consistent. Help me to grow in faith and goodness as I seek Your face and live each day...and to grasp every opportunity to work for Your kingdom. Thank you, in Jesus' name. Amen. … (9 comments)
inspirational: Prayer for the Day
- 07/18/11 01:59 AM
Dear God, Your Word gives us so much enlightenment and precious promises that we may trust and cling to. In John 12:26 "Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me." I come to you now and lift up my brothers and sisters in Christ who are so faithful to follow you in countries where they are persecuted for doing so. You have promised to honor them for believing in you and standing in faith. I pray that you will meet their every need. I pray … (4 comments)
inspirational: Prayer for the Day
- 07/17/11 02:05 AM
Glory be to You Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. I pray for a closeness to You like I have never felt before. Lord, I seek Your face and desire Your will. Please increase my thirst for Your presence. While You will always be my heavenly Father, and I Your child through the blood atonement of Jesus Christ, I pray that You will help me to stay close and to flee from sin, that our fellowship will not be strained by sin. Lord, I ask You to bring to my mind any sin that I may repent … (5 comments)
inspirational: Prayer for the Day
- 07/15/11 02:20 AM
Dear Father, I come to you this morning in the name of Jesus, asking for your mercy and help for parents of adolescents today. This is always a trying time. I pray that these parents will have all the patience, love, wisdom, knowledge, and love that is needed to properly parent children at this stage of life. The children are going through so many changes, emotionally and physically, that they need understanding and guidance, family time and worship time, and spiritual growth to ground them as they begin to mature into young adults. Please provide what is needed for these parents … (9 comments)
inspirational: Prayer for the Day
- 07/13/11 10:21 AM
Dear Father in Heaven, Please work in me today to ripen the fruit of the Spirit. Help me to bear this fruit in my life...to show and share love, joy, and peace; to be long-suffering, gentle, and good; to have strong faith; to be meek and temperate, slow to speak and quick to listen. I want to walk in the Spirit so that my life will be pleasing to you and a light in the darkness, that the world may know that You are God. With praise and thanksgiving, in the name of Jesus. Amen … (8 comments)
inspirational: Prayer for the Day
- 07/12/11 02:31 AM
Oh, how I praise You Lord! You heal the brokenhearted and bind up their wounds. You count the number of the stars and call them all by name. Great are You, Lord, and mighty in power. Your understanding is infinite. You lift up the humble, and cast the wicked down to the ground. I praise you Lord, you who covers the heavens with clouds and prepares rain for the earth; you who makes grass to grow on mountains and gives food to beasts of the earth. Praise you Lord, the One whom I trust to heal my hurts and bind up … (3 comments)
inspirational: Prayer for the Day
- 07/07/11 03:23 AM
Dear Lord, Thank you for this day. Thank you for my being able to see, to hear, to speak, to move about this morning. I'm blessed because you are a forgiving and understanding God. You have done so much for me. I have witnessed your hand of blessing, your miraculous power in my life and the lives of those I love, and you just keep on blessing me. Forgive me this day for everything I have done, said or thought that was not pleasing to you. I ask now for your forgiveness. Please keep me, my family, and my church family … (7 comments)
inspirational: Prayer for the Day
- 06/29/11 01:57 AM
Dear Lord, Thank you for this day and for the instruction you provide through your Word. Please help me to always have a soft answer to turn away wrath, not harsh words that stir up anger; help me to use knowledge rightly, not to speak foolishness. I pray that my tongue would build up others as a tree of life giving shade and shelter and never speak perverseness that would break the spirit. Let me always receive your instruction and correction with an ear to hear, a mind to accept, and a heart that is humble. I thank you and offer … (2 comments)
inspirational: Prayer for the Day
- 06/28/11 02:08 AM
Abba, Father, You are love. Your Word tells me that; experience shows me that. I remember singing the children's song, "Praise Him, Praise Him, all ye little children, God is love, God is love..." Yes, You are worthy of our praise and honor. Whether I feel down and out, unloved; am going through trials and tough times; or when I'm happy, prosperous, and "on top of the mountain," Your love reaches me. Your presence surrounds me and brings me warmth, contentment, and peace. Thank You, Father, so much for that. In Jesus' name I pray and give You praise, amen … (5 comments)
inspirational: Prayer for the Day
- 06/27/11 02:22 AM
Dear God, Thank you for this new summer day. Thank you for the beautiful sunshine, fluffy clouds, and fresh rains. I am in awe of Your works. The thunderstorms that send lightning and thunder crashing, the wind that comes to dry up the heavy rain, the bumblebee that flies in spite of being too big and heavy for those little wings, the lightning bugs that flicker at night and send children chasing through the yard, the crickets that chirp, and the frogs and birds that sing, the oceans that roar and the mountains so tall, the ant that is so busy … (9 comments)
Dear God, It is so hot and dry in my little part of this world. Then in other places, they've had floods and too much rain recently. I pray that you will balance out the weather, that a soft and steady rain would fall to water the dry earth and that the sun and refreshing breezes would blow across the flooded areas to dry up the excess water. I pray for your protection from the elements and your provision for every need. I pray for souls that are dry and desolate, that your Spirit will nudge at their heart's door and … (1 comments)
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