1 Chapter: Psalm 76
1 Verse: Verse 11. Make vows to the LORD your God and fulfill them; let all who are around Him bring gifts to Him who is to be feared.
1 Prayer: Father, forgive me for so easily forgetting my commitments to You. Teach me better how to fear You in such a way that the fulfillment of my vows to You -- all my promises of faithfulness, love, adoration, obedience -- comes from the very center of my being, not, as it sometimes seems to now, as if it were some fad only recently taken up and thus rather easily cast aside. I don't want to give You empty words or shifting allegiance -- true at one time and not at another. You are my God for all time, and I want to act like it. Help me be faithful to my vows.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Friday, September 15, 2006
Psalm 75
1 Chapter: Psalm 75
1 Verse: Verse 1. We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks, for Your name is near; men declare Your wondrous works.
1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for being near. You are always present and always working, and Your works are always wondrous. They quite literally make me wonder: what are You up to? I know it is all good, but sometimes You seem to be bringing me down, sometimes lifting me up. All I know is that You are close, at hand, intimately involved in all that concerns me and for that I thank You. You alone can be trusted to work all things for good. I trust You today in all things. I love You.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
1 Verse: Verse 1. We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks, for Your name is near; men declare Your wondrous works.
1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for being near. You are always present and always working, and Your works are always wondrous. They quite literally make me wonder: what are You up to? I know it is all good, but sometimes You seem to be bringing me down, sometimes lifting me up. All I know is that You are close, at hand, intimately involved in all that concerns me and for that I thank You. You alone can be trusted to work all things for good. I trust You today in all things. I love You.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Psalm 74
1 Chapter: Psalm 74
1 Verse: Verse 16. Yours is the day, Yours also is the night; You have prepared the light and the sun.
1 Prayer: Father, every moment belongs to You. You have proven Yourself worthy of each one. Thank You for exercising Your ownership over my times. Thank you for preparing for me light to see and heat to warm and melt my frozen heart. Thank you for shining on me in the darkness of my need. You rose up like the sun to answer my cry for help in the night, and now I want to give You all the praise and honor and glory and thanks You deserve. Today, Father, is Yours -- as has been every day till now and as will be every day to come. May You be pleased by what Your light reveals of me today.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
1 Verse: Verse 16. Yours is the day, Yours also is the night; You have prepared the light and the sun.
1 Prayer: Father, every moment belongs to You. You have proven Yourself worthy of each one. Thank You for exercising Your ownership over my times. Thank you for preparing for me light to see and heat to warm and melt my frozen heart. Thank you for shining on me in the darkness of my need. You rose up like the sun to answer my cry for help in the night, and now I want to give You all the praise and honor and glory and thanks You deserve. Today, Father, is Yours -- as has been every day till now and as will be every day to come. May You be pleased by what Your light reveals of me today.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Psalm 73
1 Chapter: Psalm 73
1 Verse: Verse 26. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
1 Prayer: Father, show me how to find the strength of my heart in You even when my own heart fails. I know Your strength is made perfect in weakness, but lately my weakness has been getting pretty strong. Too strong for me. I can feel my failure like never before. But I trust You, Father, and I believe Your word. This weakness, this failure, this flesh, this heart -- they are not forever. You are forever, and You will never fail. You will be my portion forever, despite it all. Thank You, Father, for Your unfailing love.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
1 Verse: Verse 26. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
1 Prayer: Father, show me how to find the strength of my heart in You even when my own heart fails. I know Your strength is made perfect in weakness, but lately my weakness has been getting pretty strong. Too strong for me. I can feel my failure like never before. But I trust You, Father, and I believe Your word. This weakness, this failure, this flesh, this heart -- they are not forever. You are forever, and You will never fail. You will be my portion forever, despite it all. Thank You, Father, for Your unfailing love.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Psalm 72
1 Chapter: Psalm 72
1 Verse: Verse 18. Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, Who alone works wonders.
1 Prayer: Father, You alone work wonders. You know how I need You to work on my behalf. May You be blessed by those of us who behold Your wondrous love.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
1 Verse: Verse 18. Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, Who alone works wonders.
1 Prayer: Father, You alone work wonders. You know how I need You to work on my behalf. May You be blessed by those of us who behold Your wondrous love.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
Monday, September 11, 2006
Psalm 71
1 Chapter: Psalm 71
1 Verse: Verse 15. My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness and of Your salvation all day long; for I do not know the sum of them.
1 Prayer: Father, even in the midst of waiting for word of Your answer to me, I will not stop talking all day long about how good You are. I can't presume to know how You will show Your righteousness and Your salvation in response to my requests. So save me from fret and worry as I foolishly fear the worst. I do not know the sum of Your good and saving deeds. You may yet still deliver me as I have asked. So, Father, please answer. And in the meantime, as I wait to learn what Your answer will be, I will praise You.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
1 Verse: Verse 15. My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness and of Your salvation all day long; for I do not know the sum of them.
1 Prayer: Father, even in the midst of waiting for word of Your answer to me, I will not stop talking all day long about how good You are. I can't presume to know how You will show Your righteousness and Your salvation in response to my requests. So save me from fret and worry as I foolishly fear the worst. I do not know the sum of Your good and saving deeds. You may yet still deliver me as I have asked. So, Father, please answer. And in the meantime, as I wait to learn what Your answer will be, I will praise You.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Psalm 70
1 Chapter: Psalm 70
1 Verse: Verse 5. But I am afflicted and needy; hasten to me, O God! You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay.
1 Prayer: Father, I know You make all things beautiful in Your time, but I get impatient having to wait. I can't see how any further delay could possibly be helpful. I want to be delivered. But I know that You are my help, whether that help comes now or later. I know You are with me no matter what. Thank you for hastening to me to help me. I know the rescue is already underway.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
1 Verse: Verse 5. But I am afflicted and needy; hasten to me, O God! You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay.
1 Prayer: Father, I know You make all things beautiful in Your time, but I get impatient having to wait. I can't see how any further delay could possibly be helpful. I want to be delivered. But I know that You are my help, whether that help comes now or later. I know You are with me no matter what. Thank you for hastening to me to help me. I know the rescue is already underway.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Psalm 69
1 Chapter: Psalm 69
1 Verse: Verse 20. Reproach has broken my heart and I am so sick and I looked for sympathy, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
1 Prayer: Father, You know me best. You know me better than anyone. You are familiar with all my ways. Only You could know how perfect this verse is for me today. I don't know what else to say, so I will let George Fox say it for me: "It grieved me that I should have opened my mind to such a one. I saw they were all miserable comforters, and this increased my troubles upon me" (Journal, Ch. 1). You alone can speak to my condition, Lord. You are the Comforter, come to dwell with Your people Yourself. I need Your comfort, Father. I need You.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
1 Verse: Verse 20. Reproach has broken my heart and I am so sick and I looked for sympathy, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
1 Prayer: Father, You know me best. You know me better than anyone. You are familiar with all my ways. Only You could know how perfect this verse is for me today. I don't know what else to say, so I will let George Fox say it for me: "It grieved me that I should have opened my mind to such a one. I saw they were all miserable comforters, and this increased my troubles upon me" (Journal, Ch. 1). You alone can speak to my condition, Lord. You are the Comforter, come to dwell with Your people Yourself. I need Your comfort, Father. I need You.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
Friday, September 08, 2006
Psalm 68
1 Chapter: Psalm 68
1 Verse: Verse 19. Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, the God who is our salvation. Selah.
1 Prayer: I'm the one who feels blessed, Father. To know that You daily bear my burden, that You take upon Yourself the weight of my finite, sin-plagued, ignorant, willful, stubborn, hapless existence is almost beyond comprehension. It seems almost too good to be true. Yet, in its truth is our salvation -- that You are a lover of sinful rebels Who delights in even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant blundering motions we fitfully make in response to Your infinite and perfect and unfailing love. Father, You know the things burdening me today -- even better than I do. And You are infinitely better able to bear them than I am. Thank You for carrying me through them today. For that You truly deserve to be abundantly blessed and thanked and worshiped and praised and loved and trusted and obeyed . . .
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
1 Verse: Verse 19. Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, the God who is our salvation. Selah.
1 Prayer: I'm the one who feels blessed, Father. To know that You daily bear my burden, that You take upon Yourself the weight of my finite, sin-plagued, ignorant, willful, stubborn, hapless existence is almost beyond comprehension. It seems almost too good to be true. Yet, in its truth is our salvation -- that You are a lover of sinful rebels Who delights in even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant blundering motions we fitfully make in response to Your infinite and perfect and unfailing love. Father, You know the things burdening me today -- even better than I do. And You are infinitely better able to bear them than I am. Thank You for carrying me through them today. For that You truly deserve to be abundantly blessed and thanked and worshiped and praised and loved and trusted and obeyed . . .
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Psalm 67
1 Chapter: Psalm 67
1 Verse: Verse 1. God be gracious to us and bless us, and cause His face to shine upon us-- Selah.
1 Prayer: Father, I would love to see Your face shining on me and my family, friends, church, city, country and world today. The light of Your countenance is pure blessing to us. And I'm thankful that You are more than gracious enough to direct Your illumination our way. Today, help me to walk in the light of Your love so others would see Your gracious blessing, Your shining face.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
1 Verse: Verse 1. God be gracious to us and bless us, and cause His face to shine upon us-- Selah.
1 Prayer: Father, I would love to see Your face shining on me and my family, friends, church, city, country and world today. The light of Your countenance is pure blessing to us. And I'm thankful that You are more than gracious enough to direct Your illumination our way. Today, help me to walk in the light of Your love so others would see Your gracious blessing, Your shining face.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Psalm 66
1 Chapter: Psalm 66
1 Verse: Verse 13-14. I shall come into Your house with burnt offerings; I shall pay You my vows, which my lips uttered and my mouth spoke when I was in distress.
1 Prayer: How quickly I "forget" how truly desperate I am. I do not want to be reminded of how precarious my position is, or how utterly dependent I am on You. Yet the truth is I would be nowhere if not for Your love and grace. I have been in distress, and I have been delivered . . . over and over and over again. And each time You lead me into trial, You refine a bit more of my soul. But I don't want to remember how dark my soul can be. The words I speak in darkness, I want to ignore in the light. Father, help me to prove faithful to the test. Help me to keep the promises made to You in my need, so that I do not have to go back there to make them all over again.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
1 Verse: Verse 13-14. I shall come into Your house with burnt offerings; I shall pay You my vows, which my lips uttered and my mouth spoke when I was in distress.
1 Prayer: How quickly I "forget" how truly desperate I am. I do not want to be reminded of how precarious my position is, or how utterly dependent I am on You. Yet the truth is I would be nowhere if not for Your love and grace. I have been in distress, and I have been delivered . . . over and over and over again. And each time You lead me into trial, You refine a bit more of my soul. But I don't want to remember how dark my soul can be. The words I speak in darkness, I want to ignore in the light. Father, help me to prove faithful to the test. Help me to keep the promises made to You in my need, so that I do not have to go back there to make them all over again.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Psalm 65
1 Chapter: Psalm 65
1 Verse: Verse 1. There will be silence before You, and praise in Zion, O God, and to You the vow will be performed.
1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for the silence that surrounds You. I'm beset on all sides by a cacophonuous chorus of dissonant voices all speaking, shouting, screaming, whispering words of shame, doubt, blame, regret . . . and You silence them all. I'm inundated with a flood of words. . . and yet none of them speak to my condition. You alone have the words of life -- real life, undying life, eternal life, unending life, self-sustaining life, self-generating life. To whom else shall I go? I will seek You in Your silence, then when I find You there I will adorn that silence with Your praise. I will perform for You -- before Your rapt attention -- the vows and promises, the commitments and pledges that I have made to You. May You be pleased with what You see and hear of me today.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
1 Verse: Verse 1. There will be silence before You, and praise in Zion, O God, and to You the vow will be performed.
1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for the silence that surrounds You. I'm beset on all sides by a cacophonuous chorus of dissonant voices all speaking, shouting, screaming, whispering words of shame, doubt, blame, regret . . . and You silence them all. I'm inundated with a flood of words. . . and yet none of them speak to my condition. You alone have the words of life -- real life, undying life, eternal life, unending life, self-sustaining life, self-generating life. To whom else shall I go? I will seek You in Your silence, then when I find You there I will adorn that silence with Your praise. I will perform for You -- before Your rapt attention -- the vows and promises, the commitments and pledges that I have made to You. May You be pleased with what You see and hear of me today.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
Monday, September 04, 2006
Psalm 64
1 Chapter: Psalm 64
1 Verse: Verse 1. Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
1 Prayer: Father, my life is endangered not only by the enemy, but also by the dread of him. How often have I let fear alone do its damage before the enemy has even shown his face? If you will protect me from the enemy himself, how much more from my imagined fears? Father, forgive me for conjuring up scenarios to dread, excuses to hide behind, and fears to flee from. The enemy is real, but the reason to fear is false. You will uphold and defend me. Deliver us from evil and from the dread of it.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
1 Verse: Verse 1. Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
1 Prayer: Father, my life is endangered not only by the enemy, but also by the dread of him. How often have I let fear alone do its damage before the enemy has even shown his face? If you will protect me from the enemy himself, how much more from my imagined fears? Father, forgive me for conjuring up scenarios to dread, excuses to hide behind, and fears to flee from. The enemy is real, but the reason to fear is false. You will uphold and defend me. Deliver us from evil and from the dread of it.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Psalm 63
1 Chapter: Psalm 63
1 Verse: Verse 8. My soul clings to You; Your right hand upholds me.
1 Prayer: Father, I'm holding on to You for dear life. I'm sticking as close to You as I know how to. And You in turn carry me. You lift me up. You hold me close in Your arms -- in Your strong hand of love. Thank You for not letting go. Teach me more and more how to better embrace You.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
1 Verse: Verse 8. My soul clings to You; Your right hand upholds me.
1 Prayer: Father, I'm holding on to You for dear life. I'm sticking as close to You as I know how to. And You in turn carry me. You lift me up. You hold me close in Your arms -- in Your strong hand of love. Thank You for not letting go. Teach me more and more how to better embrace You.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Psalm 62
1 Chapter: Psalm 62
1 Verse: Verse 8. Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. Selah.
1 Prayer: Father, help me trust in You at all times. You know how I am longing for this time to be one of those times when trusting You comes easily. But it doesn't seem to be. Yet, I am pouring out my heart before You, because I trust You enough to believe that You hear and answer. You are my refuge. It is right that I trust in You. Father, help me trust You this time.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
1 Verse: Verse 8. Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. Selah.
1 Prayer: Father, help me trust in You at all times. You know how I am longing for this time to be one of those times when trusting You comes easily. But it doesn't seem to be. Yet, I am pouring out my heart before You, because I trust You enough to believe that You hear and answer. You are my refuge. It is right that I trust in You. Father, help me trust You this time.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
Friday, September 01, 2006
Psalm 61
1 Chapter: Psalm 61
1 Verse: Verse 2. From the end of the earth I call to You when my heart is faint; lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
1 Prayer: Father, my heart is faint. I'm calling to You, but my voice is faint, too. Please hear my call. I feel like my whole world is at an end. Where do I go when I've run out of room, when I've gone as far as I can go, when I've reached the limits of this earth and can go no further? I call to You to lead me. You alone know where I am and where I've been and where I'm going. I'm going someplace greater than myself, someplace bigger than this earth, someplace larger than my world. You are the place of strength, security, shelter and rest. You abide forever above it all. Let me abide forever with You.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
1 Verse: Verse 2. From the end of the earth I call to You when my heart is faint; lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
1 Prayer: Father, my heart is faint. I'm calling to You, but my voice is faint, too. Please hear my call. I feel like my whole world is at an end. Where do I go when I've run out of room, when I've gone as far as I can go, when I've reached the limits of this earth and can go no further? I call to You to lead me. You alone know where I am and where I've been and where I'm going. I'm going someplace greater than myself, someplace bigger than this earth, someplace larger than my world. You are the place of strength, security, shelter and rest. You abide forever above it all. Let me abide forever with You.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Psalm 60
1 Chapter: Psalm 60
1 Verse: Verse 1. O God, You have rejected us; You have broken us; You have been angry; O, restore us.
1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for the hope of restoration. Nothing could be worse than to have been rejected, cast off, rebuffed by God. No one can more perfectly break us than the One who created us. And yet, even in Your anger -- perfect and just and righteous as it is -- You still receive our request. You remember us, You restore us, You put us back together again. You put us back together with You. O, Father, restore us!
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
1 Verse: Verse 1. O God, You have rejected us; You have broken us; You have been angry; O, restore us.
1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for the hope of restoration. Nothing could be worse than to have been rejected, cast off, rebuffed by God. No one can more perfectly break us than the One who created us. And yet, even in Your anger -- perfect and just and righteous as it is -- You still receive our request. You remember us, You restore us, You put us back together again. You put us back together with You. O, Father, restore us!
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Psalm 59
1 Chapter: Psalm 59
1 Verse: Verse 16. But as for me, I shall sing of Your strength; yes, I shall joyfully sing of Your lovingkindness in the morning, for You have been my stronghold and a refuge in the day of my distress.
1 Prayer: Father, I'm looking across the dark expanse of this night toward the hope of light in the morning, but it is so hard to tell how the day will rise. Will I awake with a song or a curse? Will I rise to the fond memory of a pleasant dream, or the sour aftertaste of a bitter nightmare? If I wake to the day of my distress, Father, will You be my stronghold and safe place? Help me sing of Your unfailing lovingkindness no matter what tomorrow brings. Yes, I shall joyfully sing.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
1 Verse: Verse 16. But as for me, I shall sing of Your strength; yes, I shall joyfully sing of Your lovingkindness in the morning, for You have been my stronghold and a refuge in the day of my distress.
1 Prayer: Father, I'm looking across the dark expanse of this night toward the hope of light in the morning, but it is so hard to tell how the day will rise. Will I awake with a song or a curse? Will I rise to the fond memory of a pleasant dream, or the sour aftertaste of a bitter nightmare? If I wake to the day of my distress, Father, will You be my stronghold and safe place? Help me sing of Your unfailing lovingkindness no matter what tomorrow brings. Yes, I shall joyfully sing.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Psalm 58
1 Chapter: Psalm 58
1 Verse: Verse 7. Let them flow away like water that runs off; when he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts.
1 Prayer: Father, when lying voices pour out discouragement over me like a deluge, will You please help it roll off my back? When I'm the target of criticism, distraction, defeat, and despair, could you please soften the blow? Take the edge off. I know I need to learn to endure under it, to stand up to it, to not back down from it. But I'm tired and the hits just keep coming. I'm looking to You to keep me on my feet. Thank you.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
1 Verse: Verse 7. Let them flow away like water that runs off; when he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts.
1 Prayer: Father, when lying voices pour out discouragement over me like a deluge, will You please help it roll off my back? When I'm the target of criticism, distraction, defeat, and despair, could you please soften the blow? Take the edge off. I know I need to learn to endure under it, to stand up to it, to not back down from it. But I'm tired and the hits just keep coming. I'm looking to You to keep me on my feet. Thank you.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
Monday, August 28, 2006
Psalm 57
1 Chapter: Psalm 57
1 Verse: Verse 3. He will send from heaven and save me; He reproaches him who tramples upon me. Selah. God will send forth His lovingkindness and His truth.
1 Prayer: Father, my hope is in You this morning. Send from heaven Your lovingkindness and Your truth, and save me. Save me from those who trample me, and save me from trampling on myself. I bear Your reproach for it. Show me how to get out from under condemnation, criticism, rebuke and shame, and to stand instead beneath the over-abundant grace You have for me in Christ. I need Your grace to fall upon me from heaven. And please help me to give the same grace freely to others.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
1 Verse: Verse 3. He will send from heaven and save me; He reproaches him who tramples upon me. Selah. God will send forth His lovingkindness and His truth.
1 Prayer: Father, my hope is in You this morning. Send from heaven Your lovingkindness and Your truth, and save me. Save me from those who trample me, and save me from trampling on myself. I bear Your reproach for it. Show me how to get out from under condemnation, criticism, rebuke and shame, and to stand instead beneath the over-abundant grace You have for me in Christ. I need Your grace to fall upon me from heaven. And please help me to give the same grace freely to others.
1 Person: Now, it's your turn! Please click "COMMENTS" below to add your own favorite verse and to share your own personal prayer from today's chapter. (Your favorite verse and prayer might even be the same as mine, but we'd still love to hear from you. Feel free to just drop us a note so we know you stopped by.) Thanks!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
