Category: Prayer
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Help me, God!
Dear God: Help me! I am afraid. I am worried. I am uncertain. I need Your faith to relieve my fear. I need Your hope to relieve my despair. I need Your clarity to relieve my doubt. I am tired of relying on myself, on others, and on outcomes for relief. Help me, God! I…
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Prayer for Welcoming
Dear God: Bless me with arms that stretch as wide as the ocean, a heart that welcomes only everyone, and wisdom to know Your Truth in all things. I want so desperately to live as You so beautifully displayed during those days You traveled here. I need so desperately, Your strength to come near. Thank…
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With Gratitude for John 4
Dear God: Please remove all prejudice from me so that I can see all those I meet today as You see them. Allow me the space to welcome them into my heart as You welcomed the woman from Samaria at Jacob’s well. Bless me – and all of us – with the awareness we need…
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Prayer for Passion
Dear God: Sometimes I feel so alone. Even when I know You are with me, I feel like I am lost in a dark forest without a flashlight. Worse still is when I think I know what You want me to do with the life You have given me, and I just have no motivation…
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A Prayer for Focus
Dear God: Help me to keep my focus on You today. The world is so ugly right now – so hateful – so filled with judgment and contempt. I need to see You in it all. I need to feel Your presence in my heart. I need to believe in Your plan – which I…
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Thank You for me
Dear God: I thank You for forgiving me – even in knowing all of me, You still forgive me. I thank You for loving me – even in seeing all of me, You still love me. Your forgiveness has healed me. Your love has redeemed me. You – just You – have shown me how…
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Ode to Psalm 82
All the confusion… all the dissent… all the discord… suddenly became so clear when I passed the dollar bill to the homeless man on the street and caught the words, “In God We Trust.” What united us when we became a nation has been removed… ignored… and lost… in our grasping for worldly power and…
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Prayer for Balanced Care
Dear God: Please help me to think of others before myself – AND – to care for myself at the same time. I so want to be Your messenger, giving and loving as You have shown through the life of Jesus – AND – I fear my own diseased thinking that turns love into people-pleasing…
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Mold Me Anew
Dear God: I pray that You will relieve me of my attachment to fear. Release me from the worry that I will somehow not receive my share in this world – enough. Allow me to let go of this incessant need to garner respect and loyalty from those around me. Cleanse me of the rights…
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Unity Prayer
Dear God: Please remove all fear and judgment from my heart and mind, so that I may love and accept all who cross my path today. Grant me a sense of unity with all your children, not only those who live and believe as I do. Amen.