Gracious Father, as your Word teaches, we live in a broken world that presents trying challenges. We confess these trials often threaten our desires for good physical health, closeness between our loved ones, safety, emotional balance, success, a good reputation, and...
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Prayer 65: Beatitudes: Blessed are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness
Gracious Father, we marvel at the sacrificial work of Christ that met us in our spiritually dead state and miraculously breathed eternal life into us. Now justified and on the road to sanctification, we are called to partake in the riches of our inheritance and to...
Prayer 59: Christ, Our Shelter and Comfort
Gracious Father, glorious praise fills our hearts as we contemplate our Great King. Thank you for this great passage, Isaiah 32: 1-3, that foreshadows Christ Jesus our Lord. He indeed reigns in righteousness and rules with justice. Our hope is found in Him alone. In...
Prayer 49: Uniquely Called and Gifted
Gracious Father, I want to thank you for how you have called and gifted us to carry out your ministry. I pray that we would be faithful stewards of your wonderful grace as we care for and speak into the needs of others. Lord Jesus, I pray, as we trust and serve you,...
Prayer 11: For Humility in Ministry
Gracious Father, I am overwhelmingly thankful for the band of brothers and sisters in Christ you have placed in my life as we pursue you and ministry together. I want to particularly thank you and pray for them as we have experienced a great calling, responsibility,...