Your Daily Prayer

A Prayer for God's Light to Shine through Us on Reformation Day

Martin Luther understood darkness before he understood light. A thunderstorm in 1505 drove him to his knees with a desperate bargain to God, and that crisis became a conv

A Prayer for Good Purpose in the Place God Has You

Four months out from scoliosis surgery, one month before a son’s wedding, and nowhere near where recovery was supposed to be by now. The vision of dancing the night away

A Prayer for Hope When Life Feels Dark

Standing in a kitchen on a normal Thursday morning, cordless phone in hand, ready to dial a familiar number — and then realizing, mid-reach, that Mom would not be picking

A Prayer to Serve the Unseen Needs of Your Home

Twenty years of motherhood brings a lot of reflection — on the laundry done and the meals prepared and the clean dishes and the fridge kept full, none of which earned app

A Prayer for Deeper Trust in God’s Goodness

Just days before a son’s wedding, tears finally broke through and with them an honest cry to God: I do not want to let go. The son had found his person, and that was genu

A Prayer to Find Hope in the Midst of Darkness

Leaving a lamp on in another room at night — just that small glow — makes a difference. Without it, familiar sounds become suspicious, familiar shapes lose their edges, a

A Prayer against Dangerous Paranormal Practices

From ghost hunting reality shows to social media posts about psychic powers and manifestation, paranormal practices have never been more mainstream or more casually prese

A Prayer for God to Start a Revival in You

Self-pity might feel satisfying in the moment, but it never delivers what it promises — and nothing halts a walk with God quite like staying in it too long. Proverbs 11:2

A Prayer to Rediscover Purpose in Life

Mary Oliver’s question cuts through the noise of ordinary days with surprising force: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” It is the

A Prayer When You Fall Short All The Time

Over coffee with a friend, venting about the same old struggle — the tongue that runs ahead of wisdom, the familiar conviction of the Holy Spirit arriving within minutes

A Prayer for a Grateful Heart

The beginning of 2022 felt like everything was finally falling into place — a writing job that had only been a dream, a church community, a relationship after years of wa

A Prayer to Seek Out the Lord

When life becomes most difficult, the instinct for many of us is to turn away from God rather than toward Him. We tell ourselves we can handle it, or we feel too far from

A Prayer to Depend on God

Sin has been described as man’s declaration of independence against God — and that definition cuts straight to the heart of what went wrong with King Uzziah. Second Chron

A Prayer to Be Present in the Season You're In

An annual autumn road trip through the mountains, timed perfectly the first year — vibrant reds, oranges, and yellows painting every hillside, photos capturing what felt

A Prayer When You Cannot Carry It All

Growing up with only four books — a dictionary, two language dictionaries, and Grimms’ Fairy Tales — could have been a limitation. Instead, it became the foundation for a

A Prayer for God to Lead Bosses

God cares deeply about how those in authority treat the people under their care. The parable of the landowner in Matthew 20 models a boss who is strikingly generous — pay

A Prayer for Peace-Filled Focus

A garbage disposal that stopped working, then started again, then stopped again — two days of fussing with the fuse, and finally the discovery that the whole unit was rus

A Prayer When You Feel Forgotten in a Waiting Season

One of the hardest parts of waiting is not always the waiting itself. It is the quiet, persistent question that surfaces when another month passes with no answer, when so

A Prayer for Your Family’s New School Year

The crisp air of fall arrives, and with it a new school year — new classrooms, new teachers, new schedules, and for many children, new influences that may challenge what

A Prayer for When You Really Don't Know What to Do

Second Chronicles 20:12 contains one of the most honest prayers in Scripture, offered by King Jehoshaphat when three armies were advancing and there was genuinely nothing