A Prayer to Feel God’s Peace During a Dark Time
Choosing a word for the year is a practice many people embrace at the start of January, and one year the word chosen was peace — not because peace felt abundant, but because it felt so elusive. When t...
24 Jul 0s
A Prayer for Growth in Your Relationship With God
There are two primary reasons we fail to grow in our understanding of God: pride and deceit. And the almost immediate internal response to reading that — "no, I don't think that's true of me" — is its...
23 Jul 0s
A Prayer for Gratitude to Grow Your Joy
Sometimes discouragement arrives with a long list of justifications. And sometimes it settles in for no obvious reason at all, quietly smothering the smiles that should be there, draining the joy that...
22 Jul 0s
A Prayer to Reclaim Rest
After thousands of years of biblical wisdom available to us, humans are still stressing over whether there is any peace to be found in the daily struggle to survive and thrive. We overfill our lives w...
21 Jul 0s
A Prayer to Know God's Plan Is Not to Harm You
Waking up in a recovery room twelve hours after a surgery that was supposed to take six to eight, with a foggy brain and a numb body and the immediate awareness that something must have gone wrong — a...
20 Jul 7min
A Prayer for When God’s Timing Doesn’t Make Sense
Most of us prefer the path to be direct and short. When life requires a longer route — application after application with no offer, a caregiving season that stretches on without relief, a waiting peri...
19 Jul 6min
A Prayer for Those Crushed in Spirit
Little Mary was certain she would play Mary, the mother of Jesus, in the Sunday school play. Her name was Mary. She knew the whole story. And when her teacher announced she would play Elizabeth instea...
18 Jul 6min
A Prayer for Perseverance through Pain
When James wrote his letter to the twelve scattered tribes, the first Christians were being driven into poverty and hunger. They were not facing mild inconvenience — they were grappling to survive. An...
17 Jul 6min
