Daily Prayers
Daily Prayer
Coming To The Wedding
Monday, April 30th, 2012Jesus, thank you for this parable about the Kingdom of Heaven…
(4) “Then he sent some more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’
(5) “But they paid no attention and went off–one to his field, another to his business. (6) The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them. (7) The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
(8) “Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. (9) So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’ (10) So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. (NIV)
Lord, thank you for welcoming us to the wedding, and thank you for calling us your bride. We humbly accept and we’re excited for the party! We are yours and you are ours. We love you, Jesus, and we are so blessed by your presence in our lives. Thank you for your love that fills us to overflowing. You are so good, God. We want to dance for you and dance with you, our groom, Jesus. Thanks to your sacrifice, we are pure and spotless. We are lovely in your sight, Lord, and that makes us feel so good! Thank you, Jesus. We love you.
We Shout All The Louder
Friday, April 27th, 2012Jesus, when the world would threaten to discourage our faith, we want to shout all the louder…
(31) The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
(32) Jesus stopped and called them. “What do you want me to do for you?” he asked.
(33) “Lord,” they answered, “we want our sight.”
(34) Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed him. (NIV)
Jesus, when we feel oppressed by the World, help us to press in to you. Help us to cry out all the louder to you. When others would become discouraged or enraged, help us to relax in the peace of knowing that you are still God, and we can count on you to take care of us. We don’t have to have all the answers. We just have to put our faith in you and call upon your name. Thank you, Jesus. We love you.
Lord, we lift up our sister, Lynn’s prayer request:
Please help me feel more faith as I have given my life to god recently pray I may be renewed with his strength love and wisdom and do not let me be impatient let me know what the lord wants me to do and give my life full meaning and please pray my sins be forgiven and I am clean again.
Living To Serve
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012Jesus, thank you for coming not to be served, but to serve…
Jesus, help us to understand how absurd it is for us to carry around a sense of entitlement. You lived such a humble life. You lived to serve others even to the point of death. How can we justify living any differently?! You were fully God while in your human body. You were completely blameless; King of the Universe, yet you washed your disciples feet, prized children about earthly rulers, touched the sick, and spent time with people who were considered worthless by society.
Holy Spirit, help this truth to sink deep into our souls. We only have worth because you call us worthy. We are only precious because you hold us to be precious. We only have what you have entrusted us with, and were it not for your blood spilled at the Cross, we would be lost! Help us to live to serve others, walking in humility.
Lord, I lift up my sister’s prayer:
We also lift up Mary’s prayer request:
Prayer For The Lost
Friday, April 20th, 2012Jesus, we lift up our lost brothers and sisters to you this morning.
Jesus, we all have friends and family members who do not know you, and our hearts cry out on their behalf this morning. Our hearts hurt for their hurts. They are struggling and writhing in pain needlessly. They don’t know that you died for them. They don’t know that you were broken for their brokenness.
Holy Spirit, continue to soften their hearts. Do whatever it takes to bring them to the point where they recognize that they cannot live life by themselves. They need you, Lord. They need your Spirit within them. Without you, they are lost and blind.
We thank you that all of your creations are precious to you. You love the lost just as much as the found, and you’re desperately trying to reach them. We pray that their ears would be turned to your voice; your knock at the door of their hearts, and that they would answer you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. We love you.
Intimate Knowledge Of The Savior
Thursday, April 19th, 2012Jesus, we want to know you personally…
(14) They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”
(15) “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”
(16) Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
(17) Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven.
God, as a child instantly recognizes the face of their mother or father, we want to recognize you and your presence. We know that you are always with us and yet…how quickly we forget! We want to go deeper in our relationship with you, Jesus. We want an intimacy with you that we have never known was even possible. We want a closeness that can only be understood by the Creator and the created. You know us so well, Jesus. We want to know you intimately too, Jesus. We want an encounter with you right now, Holy Spirit. Fill us.
Jesus, we rebuke the attack on our brother, Gideon. We prayed for him yesterday and now he has been injured, breaking his leg while jogging. Lord, Jesus, we bind up this spirit of physical oppression in your name and ask that it be sent away, never to return. Touch my brother’s leg and make him whole, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. We love you.