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12/15/2025

Morning Prayer for living faithfully in a challenging world...

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world. ⏤ James 1:27

True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency. ⏤ Billy Graham

Father, it is not a holy world into which we must now go forth. It is full of sin. We must meet many temptations. Then it is not an easy life into which we have to go. It has its tasks, its duties, its responsibilities, and its conflicts. We shall have our burdens to carry and our duties to do.

Yet we would not refuse to go forth into the world. It is Your voice that calls us forth—and wherever Your voice calls us, we would go without hesitation. We have no strength or wisdom of our own to make us equal to all the work and struggle of the day—but we know that when You send us forth, You will give us all the strength and wisdom we shall need. You have promised that as our days—so shall our strength be.

Fill us with Your grace, that we may be able to move through this evil world without faltering in our faithfulness. We are not of the world, but belong to Heaven, and are citizens of the kingdom of Jesus. Help us to live out here on earth, our true life, the life of Jesus, the life of Heaven. May we be enabled to keep ourselves unspotted from the world. May we live so purely, so earnestly, with such abundant life, that our influence shall be a real force for Jesus.

We ask for grace to make our common weekday work holy and beautiful, with the beauty of Christlikeness. May we be as Jesus to everyone we meet. In our social life, our business, our responsibilities at home, in all our friendships, in our leisure—may we show the sweetness of the love of Jesus. May You keep us, each and all, in all our goings and comings. Bless us—and use us to bless the world. Bring us together in the evening. We ask all these favors for Jesus’ sake. Amen.

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12/14/2025

Morning Prayer rejoicing in Yah's care!

[A Psalm] of David. Blessed [be] the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight: My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and [he] in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. ⏤ Psalm 144:1-2

Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need. ⏤ E.M. Bounds

Blessed are You, O God, our strength, who teaches our hands to war and our fingers to fight. Teach us to war against all wickedness. You are our goodness and our fortress, our high tower, our deliverer, our shield, and the God in whom we trust. You are our refuge and strength, our keeper in the midst of trouble, and our deliverer.

Lord, what is man that You take knowledge of him? Man is like vanity; his days are as a shadow that passes away. Yet we rejoice in Your love and thought for Your redeemed children. Though we are so frail, like a flower, like the reed, bruised and broken—still You do indeed take account of us. You have put Your image upon us. You have put Your Spirit within us. You have made us Your own children. We are dearer to You than all other things in the universe because we are Your own children, and You are our Father, and because You have redeemed us at the price of the blood of Your own Son. In the person of Your Son, we are as dear to You as He is. Help us to realize our nearness and dearness to You.

We would rejoice as a family in Your goodness and grace. Rid us and deliver us from the hand of evil men, whose mouths speak vanity and whose right hands are right hands of falsehood. May our sons be as plants grown up in their youth. May our daughters be as cornerstones polished after the similitude of a palace. May our garners be full, that we may feed the hungry. May we all honor You by holy and beautiful lives.

Fill our home today with Your love, and may all of us receive from You grace, mercy, and truth, through Yeshua Hamashiach our Savior. Amen.

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12/03/2025

Morning Prayer for learning cheerfulness among trials.

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. ⏤ John 16:33

There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him. ⏤ William Law

May You teach us the lesson of cheerfulness, O God. We are too easily irritated and cast down. We let little troubles and difficulties discourage us. Our joy is too easily overshadowed. Our song of gladness too often turns into a dirge. We fret ourselves needlessly and fail to rejoice always. Sorrows come over us like a flood and bury us beneath their dark waves. Our gladness is too easily turned to sadness as life’s cares and trials come upon us.

We hear You bidding us to be of good cheer because You have overcome the world, telling us that though we have tribulations, we may have peace in You. But the lesson is not easy. It’s hard for us to keep the song always in our hearts and the sunshine always on our faces when there are so many cares.

We come to You, pleading that You will teach us how to always be cheerful. Help us to have such a strong, quiet, firm faith in Jesus that no matter what comes into our lives, we may always rejoice. Rescue us from discouragement, no matter how great its cause may appear to be. Help us to cast every burden on You, sure that You will sustain us. Help us to learn to rejoice even in disappointments, knowing that if we could see all as You see, we would find beauty and good in everything that seems painful and dark to us.

We desire to be ministers of cheer to others. Forbid that we should go out with sadness in our faces, casting a shadow on other lives. May we be sunshine to others. May we show the world what grace can do in making us messengers of gladness. We ask this in the name of Him who overcame the world and can give us peace. Amen.

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12/02/2025

Morning Prayer looking to the Lord for help.

A Song of degrees. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help [cometh] from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. ⏤ Psalm 121:1-2

The chief purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer. ⏤ R.A. Torrey

We lift up our eyes to the mountains. Where does our help come from? Our help comes from the Lord, the Maker of Heaven and earth. You will not let our feet slip. You who watch over us will not slumber. You are our keeper. You are our shade at our right hand. The sun will not harm us by day, nor the moon by night. You will keep us from all harm. You will watch over our lives. You will watch over our coming and going both now and forevermore.

We lift up our eyes to You who dwell in the heavens. As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maid look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to You, O Lord our God, until You show us Your mercy.

Teach us Your will for this day. We earnestly desire to live out the plan of life You have for us. We know it is a beautiful and worthy plan. Reveal it to us as we go about our day. Show us this day’s portion of it, and help us to submit ourselves fully to Your guidance. Let us not ruin our lives by taking even the smallest part out of Your hands and into our own. Show us Your way, and make us willing to follow it, even if it is not the path we would choose.

Grant us a day filled with goodness and mercy. Let us not grieve You, nor turn away from Your commandments. Help us to live profitably, unselfishly, and purely. Show us our faults, and then help us to overcome them and put them away. Give us the grace to make restitution if we have taken anything from another that was not ours; may we be able to return it today. Let us never lie, steal, or defraud in any way. May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be upon us. Amen.

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12/01/2025

Morning Prayer

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ: ⏤ Philippians 3:20

The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. ⏤ E.M. Bounds

O God, most merciful—bless us this morning. Lay Your hand upon us with a Father’s blessing. May the grace of the Yeshua be upon us and in us all day long. Let Your word dwell in our hearts richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing us. May it be so deeply rooted in us that it keeps us from sin. May the power of Your Spirit rest upon us throughout this day, cleansing and purifying our thoughts, feelings, and all our inner life, and compelling us to walk in holiness in all we say and do.

Please guide us today, O Elohim, and keep us in all our experiences. Guard us from carelessness. Let us not drift away from the holy truths we have been taught, nor from Jesus, Yeshua... our Savior. Let us not become entangled in the affairs of this world in a way that causes us to lose any of the sanctity of our lives. Though we are in the world, let us not be of it. Help us to maintain a godly life amid all that is ungodly. May our citizenship always be visibly in Heaven, even though we dwell on this earth. May we be true pilgrims, looking for a city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. Let us not love this world as if we were going to stay in it forever.

Grant a personal blessing to each one in our family. Our needs are different. Tenderly care for those of us who are weak. Shelter any of us who will be exposed to temptation today, and let us not fall. If any unforeseen trouble or sorrow lies in our path, prepare us for it, that we may not be caught off guard and fall into sin. May we each carry out into the world a power of love and grace that will bless everyone we meet. We ask all this for Jesus’ sake. Amen.

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10/16/2025

Evening Prayer seeking forgiveness and renewal tonight. I pray you will take a moment and join me.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ⏤ 1 John 1:9

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer. ⏤ John Bunyan

O God, our Father, we come to You now at the close of this day with our evening prayers. Please accept us and our worship, and grant us Your mercy. We placed ourselves in Your care this morning, and You’ve kept us through all the experiences of the day.

We bring our day’s work to You. It’s not what it should have been. We haven’t lived as well as we knew we should. We’ve done many things we didn’t mean to do, and we’ve failed to do many things we intended to do. Our own hearts condemn us, and You, who are greater than our hearts, have seen even more of our sins today than we have noticed. We plead with You for forgiveness.

Yet, we ask You to accept what we bring to You, imperfect and stained as it is. You know how frail we are. You remember that we are made of dust. Have pity on our weakness and teach us how to grow strong. Accept the mere fragments of our living that we bring to You tonight, and use them for Your glory and the blessing of the world.

Whatever has been good and acceptable in our life and work today, please take it from our hands and use it to bless others. Bless the influence we’ve had on others today. If we’ve hurt any of Your children, please forgive us and heal the wounds we’ve caused. If we’ve discouraged others by our words, actions, or example, making life harder for them, we ask for Your forgiveness, and we pray that we may live in a way that is always a help and inspiration to others. We ask all this in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Redeemer. Amen.

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10/15/2025

Evening Prayer reflecting on God's blessings.

So teach [us] to number our days, that we may apply [our] hearts unto wisdom. ⏤ Psalm 90:12

Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him the mind of Christ, the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. ⏤ E.M. Bounds

Evening has come again, O God, and we gather back at Your feet. You’ve kept us safe through the day and given us many blessings. We’re grateful to You for all of them. Help us hold onto every good thing that’s come to us today—the good thoughts that have warmed our hearts, the gentle impressions from our friends, and all that’s come to us through books or nature. Teach us to value our days so that we may gain wisdom from the experiences we go through. We want to grow wiser with each passing day. So we ask You to teach us everything we need to learn from this day before it ends.

We remember our friends tonight. Some of them may be anxious or struggling with temptation. We pray that they will experience the holy things of life. We may not be able to help them much, but we can pray for them, and You can reach down and help them in true, wise, and holy ways. We place all our dear ones in Your care, trusting You to do what is best. Lead them on paths of Your choosing.

We also lift up the world before You. It’s lost in sin. Above us is the heavenly city, but all around us is darkness, with dangers ready to harm and destroy us. We pray tonight for the lost, asking You to have mercy on them and save them. Show us where they are and send us out to find them, so that we may carry Your blessing to them in Your name. Bless us as we go to sleep, and give us Your protection and Fatherly blessing. We ask all this through Jesus Christ. Amen.

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10/14/2025

Evening Prayer resting in God's care.

I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety. ⏤ Psalm 4:8

Our prayers lay the track down on which God’s power can come. ⏤ Watchman Nee

As this day comes to a close, we come to You, our Father. Thank You for guiding us today in response to our morning prayer. Please accept whatever we’ve done to please You. Forgive us for anything wrong in our actions, attitudes, or feelings. If we’ve held onto unkind thoughts, been envious, selfish, resentful, or jealous—please forgive us and cleanse our hearts.

We sincerely want to grow beyond these faults of our old nature. We’re not content to live with these things ruling our lives. But You know how hard it is for us to overcome these struggles in our hearts. May Your grace within us help to overcome them. We earnestly pray that You will fill us with Your Holy Spirit, and help us to let go of the things that displease You, and embrace the qualities of a new life filled with the gentle affections of our Savior. May the fruits of the Spirit grow in us. May whatever is pure and lovely be found in us.

We now leave in Your care all the work of this day. If we’ve left any negative impact on someone’s life, we ask that You prevent it from causing harm. Take whatever has been good and helpful in us today and use it to bless others and to bring glory to Your great name.

As we go to rest, we commit ourselves to Your care for the night. You are our protector. We rest securely under the shadow of Your wings because You will keep us safe. We pray for the poor, the sick, the troubled, the sorrowful, and the dying. We ask all these things in Jesus’ precious name. Amen.

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10/13/2025

Evening Prayer with gratitude for the day of rest on the Great 8th Day.

A Song of degrees of David. I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. ⏤ Psalm 122:1

Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish the impossible, and know the will of God. ⏤ David Jeremiah

At the end of Your holy day, our Father, we come to You with our evening prayers. May our prayers rise to You like incense. We thank You for what this day has brought us—rest, spiritual help, and instruction in divine things. We thank You for the glimpses of truth we’ve received as we’ve read Your word. We’re grateful for the good impulses and desires that have stirred in our hearts.

Make us strong to face life’s struggles. Give us more peace and confidence amid the world’s chaos and conflicts. May the holy influences of Sunday stay with us like sweet songs, and may we carry the music of gladness wherever we go in the coming week. May the light that has shone on us today make our faces brighter, so we can shine as lights in the world. May the kind thoughts and desires kindled in us by the Holy Spirit drive us to serve others as we go about our lives. In every way, may we carry a blessing into our daily lives that makes the world a little brighter and brings new joy to many hearts.

Bless the preaching of Your word everywhere today. May Your people be strengthened, the sorrowful comforted, and may many find new life in You starting this Sunday. May the world be holier, filled with more of the Spirit of Jesus, because Your people have remembered You today and have called down blessings on others. Pour out a large measure of Your love.

Forgive all our sins and failures in duty, and grant us Your grace and peace as we lie down to sleep. We ask all this through Jesus Christ, our Savior. Amen.

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10/12/2025

Evening Prayer looking back in gratitude.

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if [there be any] wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. ⏤ Psalm 139:23-24

God delights to answer the prayer of faith. ⏤ Samuel Chadwick

Dear heavenly Father, our hearts are filled with gratitude tonight as we think about how wisely You’ve led us this week. It’s been a week full of loving-kindness and tender mercy. You’ve walked with us every day and guarded us every night. You’ve brought us many blessings that will make this week bright in our memory. We’ve met new friends, read new books, had prayers answered, and found new joys. For all these things, we are very grateful.

Look over the record of this week, which is now laid out before You. You see the spots and stains—things we did that we shouldn’t have, and things we left undone that we should have done. Speak forgiveness to our hearts. We also ask for the grace to make the coming week better than this one. We can’t change the past, but we want to make the most of what’s left. Prepare us for the Lord’s Day, and may Sunday prepare us for the new week. Let Your Word search our hearts and reveal anything that’s not right—then make us clean.

Tonight, we pray for Your ministers who are preparing for tomorrow’s work. Fill them with Your Spirit, and lead them to the truth they need to share with Your people. Give them messages that bring life, peace, and comfort. Teach them what You want them to say. Hold them close to Your heart tonight so they’ll be ready for their sacred work. Give them empathy, so they can connect with those they’ll serve. Baptize them with a sense of human need, so they can truly help those who are hungry for the bread of life. We ask all this in Jesus' precious name. Amen.

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10/11/2025

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10/11/2025

Evening Prayer for blessings and guidance at days end.

I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons. ⏤ Psalm 16:7

It is not enough to begin to pray, nor to pray aright; nor is it enough to continue for a time to pray, but we must patiently, believingly continue in prayer until we obtain an answer. ⏤ George Müller

We come to You, O God, for Your blessing at the end of this day. It’s dark around us—but darkness and light are the same to You. Your care is as perfect and full of blessings in the night as it is in the day.

This has been a good day for us. You’ve led us along paths we didn’t know, and we couldn’t have found without Your guidance. Forgive us if we weren’t always willing to follow Your way. If any of us have strayed from the right path, forgive us and bring us back before we sleep. We want to follow Your plan for our lives, and we don’t want to ruin it by choosing our own foolish way.

Now, as the day ends, we lay all our work before You. Nothing is truly finished until it has Your blessing. Bless the work of our hands. Correct our mistakes. Complete the beauty that we only began to sketch with our poor efforts. Make all our work holy, and take it into Your hands to be part of Your great plan.

We ask You to bless the people we’ve met today with the influence of our lives on them. If we didn’t live in a way that truly represented Jesus, please forgive us. Let no harm come from our errors.

We pray for all our friends everywhere. We pray for the sick, for those who are lonely tonight, for the sailors on the sea, for those facing temptation, the weary, the sorrowful. We ask all these blessings in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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