Father God, I lift up those who care for ailing family and aging parents. Shore them up with your righteous right hand. Transfer enough love to them that they overflow it to the ones in their care. Your love heals. Your love comforts. Your love deals with pain. Your love keeps us going back. Your…

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Dear Jesus, how do I love you more? How do I more fully understand the weight of your sacrifice on my behalf? Abide with me, Lord, you in me and I in you. Let my spirit commune with your Holy Spirit until I comprehend all my limited mind can hold. Show me who you are….

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God of wonders who is above all, You put the tick in my clock. You put the to-do list of my days together for your purpose and glory. You are the creator of the sabbath, allowing me the blessing of rest and recuperation for the next round of work for your kingdom. Let me take…

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Holy Spirit, deepen our relationships today. Let those around us grow in knowledge of you through seeing how we relate to Jesus. Let them see us as a source of encouragement and joy. Give us wisdom and discernment in how we deal with those close to us. Show us how to fully live out your…

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Dear Lord, keep me focused on one thing only today, your forever hope. Don’t let me turn to the right nor to the let, but keep me moving without doubt or disappointment toward the goal you set before me. Remind me to look past the difficulties of today to see your eternal blessing. Let me…

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Lord of lords, King of kings, Prince of peace and gateway to eternal salvation, you paid the highest price of all. You are God’s one accepted atonement for all time for all sin. How soon we forget and turn away to other gods. Speak your sacrifice over us, Jesus. Speak it into the darkness around…

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Father God, you are the author of togetherness. The Bible begins with the one-anotherness of the Trinity, and it ends with Jesus sharing dinner with the Bride of Christ. Fellowship is far more than coffee and donuts in the lobby to me, Lord. It is you in me and I in you. It is my…

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Heavenly Father, you are the author of speech and song. Teach me to speak your language. Put your song in my heart to sing from the rooftops. Show me how to reach the hearts of those around me by speaking into their lives in a way they understand. Change hearts and lives with your power…

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Dearest Father in heaven, Lord of all, who stretches out creation, warms and cools the air, and calms the tempests, you search me thoroughly and know when I sit or when I stand. You know my thoughts, even from heaven. You know the way I walk and talk, and you are familiar with all my…

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Father, sustain joy in me today. You are the author of the pure joy of your salvation. Show me how to abide in you that your joy is in me and that my joy is complete. Make it a stubborn joy, Father, an immovable state of being. Create in me a heart full of thanks…

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