Your Daily Prayer

A Prayer to Check the Plank In My Own Eye

Can you imagine actually having to pull an entire plank out of your eye? The image is jarring on purpose. Jesus had a way of turning things upside down and bringing peopl

A Prayer for the Homeschool Family

School is not our life, but it is a part of our life. It is the refrain offered when children protest the more structured parts of learning, when the grumbling starts and

Sharing the Story You Were Meant to Share

When God does a completed work in our lives, it is like a fine pearl. Some wear their pearls for all to see. Others treasure them quietly within the chambers of the heart

A Prayer to Remember God Is in the Great Outdoors

Biblical scholars estimate Jesus taught in nearly 150 different outdoor settings; from mountainsides and shorelines to roads, fields, rivers, and wilderness. His parables

A Prayer for Quiet Trust in God

Long summer days carry a particular quality of stillness — golden light that seems to shimmer in the distance, steady heat that slows the pace of everything, the world re

A Prayer to Recommit Your Marriage

Sitting on a porch with a grandmother whose decades of faith were as steady as the chair she sat in, sharing the honest truth that sometimes it is difficult to actually l

A Prayer to Protect Your Words

Most of us know the feeling — the words left our mouth before we thought them through, and the moment they landed we wished we could pull them back. A sharp remark in an

A Prayer for Single-Hearted Focus in a Busy Season

The enemy does not need us in open rebellion to keep us ineffective. Distracted and scattered is enough. If he cannot make us bad, he will make us busy — busy enough that

A Prayer for Making Minutes Matter

A driver unwilling to wait a few minutes for a train to pass tried to race across the tracks and did not make it. Those few minutes cost him his life. It is a stark and s

A Prayer for Transformation from the Inside Out

Sanctification — being set apart, made holy, conformed to the image of Christ — is not a self-improvement project. It is the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit in the life o

A Prayer to Wait Well When We Are in A Season of Uncertainty

Sitting on a porch in Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, a woman shared through a gifted translator that she had been praying for over a year for someone to come and fix her roof. Sh

A Prayer for Endurance in Suffering

Autumn is a season of beauty and anticipation — cooler temperatures, the approach of the holidays, the warm rituals of the season. And for some, it is also a season layer

A Prayer to Be Honest When Talking to God

A daughter watching her mother walk through the pasture behind the house, apparently arguing with no one, asking afterward if she had been praying — because she seemed pr

A Prayer to Have Mountain Moving Faith

Harold had a purple crayon that could bring anything into being — a bicycle, a friend, an entire world drawn from imagination. Children accept that kind of possibility wi

A Prayer for Strife in Friendships

When a close friend begins to embrace theological views that feel like a personal betrayal, the temptation is not always to lash out directly. Sometimes it is subtler — s

A Prayer of Gratitude for the Gift of Seasons

Psalm 104 opens and closes with the same three words — Praise the Lord — and in between, it builds like a rising crescendo of awe, moving through the wonders of creation

A Prayer for Contentment in All Areas of Life

A simple question from a trusted friend — "What is your life's passion?" — has a way of revealing what we have not been willing to see in ourselves. The automatic answer

A Prayer to Welcome Autumn

Autumn is the season of watching the old leave so that the new may appear. It arrives with a bittersweet quality — a farewell to the vibrancy of spring and summer, a slow

​God Directs Our Paths: A Conversation with Franklin Graham | Bonus |

A special episode from "On The Ground" with Samaritan's Purse As believers, we trust in God—we don’t trust in ourselves or in our own understanding. Franklin Graham jo

A Prayer for the Days You Want to Give Up

Nobody explains that the days before a funeral are full. Phone calls, decisions, forms, food, people in the kitchen, a program to approve, flowers to choose. Grief has a