Your Daily Prayer

A Prayer to Overcome What’s Holding You Back

Isaiah 43 holds a question worth sitting with: God tells His people He is doing something new and then asks, "Do you not see it?" Sometimes we do not see it because we ar

A Prayer for God to Show You Where You Need to Change

It is possible to feel like you are managing everything reasonably well — checking in with the people in your life, not overcommitting, trying to be thoughtful — and stil

A Prayer to Be Patient with Your Progress

1 Corinthians 13 is most often read at weddings, held up as the standard for the love we give away to another person. And it is all of that. But it is also something else

A Prayer for Noticing More

Most of us move through the world on autopilot — not because we are incapable of noticing, but because we have stopped choosing to. We walk past the bee covered in pollen

A Prayer Because the Silence Is the Hardest Part

A seventeen-year-old in a dorm room, alone for the first time, with a rule she had made for herself: no calling home before Friday. She would prove she could do this. So

A Prayer to Forgo Comparison

Scrolling through social media on a day that already feels heavy is one of the fastest ways to make a hard day harder. A friend's vacation photos, another's daughter's li

A Prayer for the Woman Waiting, Whispering Prayers, and Wanting a Child

God sees the woman who is aching for a child. He sees her in the middle of the night, in the quiet places where the longing is too heavy to carry out loud, in the vulnera

A Prayer of Repentance Without Condemnation

Repentance has a reputation problem. For many people, the word carries a weight of shame, punishment, and finger-pointing that makes it something to avoid rather than som

A Prayer to Recharge

A camera battery that is allowed to run completely down takes far longer to recharge than one that is topped up consistently after a few uses. The same principle applies

A Prayer to Appreciate Labor Day

Work is not a consequence of the Fall. It is a gift that preceded it. Before sin entered the world, before anything broke or became difficult, God placed man in the Garde

A Prayer When Your Mind Feels Pulled in Every Direction

The more we divide our attention, the more scattered our thoughts become — and yet the pressure to multitask, to keep every plate spinning at once, can feel inescapable i

A Prayer for the Basket Season of Your Adult Child

Jochebed, the mother of Moses, understood what it means to do everything you possibly can for a child and then face the moment when your hands must let go. She waterproof

A Prayer for Joy That Feels Blocked by Burdens

We know the reasons to be grateful. We know we have the Lord. And still, circumstantial burdens seem to block the joy we are reaching for. Psalm 90:14 expresses the longi

A Prayer to Let God’s Joy Lead Your Heart

When God's people had just finished rebuilding the broken walls of Jerusalem and gathered to hear the law read aloud, they were moved to tears. They heard how far they ha

A Prayer to Live from Victory and Not Defeat

Defeating thoughts have a way of quietly backing us into a corner. Resistance at every turn, mundane tasks that start to feel monumental, weariness that settles in before

A Prayer for Our Labors Outside the Church Walls

Matthew 9:35-38 shows Jesus going throughout cities and villages, not staying in one place, moved by compassion for people who were harassed and helpless, like sheep with

A Prayer to Choose Your Thoughts Wisely

Paul wrote his letter to the Philippians while under arrest in Rome, expecting to be executed by his enemies. He had every reason to ruminate on injustice, catastrophize

A Prayer Expressing Anger at Injustices in the World

Quaker preacher John Woolman once experienced a vision of slaves producing the very goods he used in his daily life, and the weight of that revelation changed the way he

A Prayer for Helping Someone with a Broken Heart

When you are the one who shows up in the darkest moments, physically or virtually present in a time of genuine crisis, you have an opportunity to steward God's light into

A Prayer When You’re in a Bible-Reading Funk

Bible-reading funks are more common than most people admit, and they arrive for all kinds of reasons. A busy season of life, a complicated history with how Scripture was