December 5, 2023

Luke 9:29 And as he was praying, the appearance of his face was transformed, and his clothes became dazzling white.

Transform my face God as I pray

Cleanse body and soul as I pray

May Jesus be glorified as I pray

Pray so you can become and be who God created you to be.

December 4, 2023

Luke 3:21 One day when the crowds were being baptized, Jesus himself was baptized. As he was praying, the heavens opened,

May my prayer open heaven

May God’s Spirit be present

May Jesus bless my prayer

Prayer is a friend enjoying time with a friend.

December 3, 2023

Luke 1:10 While the incense was being burned, a great crowd stood outside, praying.

May our prayers be a precious incense

ever before You ever pleasant to You

Prayer is an attempt please, honor and make God smile.

December 2, 2023

Mark 11:25 But when you are praying, first forgive anyone you are holding a grudge against, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your sins, too.”

I will be forgiven as I forgive says God

Please help me to forgive others God

I want to forgive to be forgiven God

Prayer is recognizing the universal needs.

December 1, 2023

Matthew 26:39 He went on a little farther and bowed with his face to the ground, praying, “My Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.”

I do not want this cup of despair

I will not drink this cup of woe

But “your will to be done, not mine.”

Prayer is how we discover who God wants us to be.

November 30, 2023

James 5:16 Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.

Confess together

Pray together

Heal together

Prayer unites me with those I pray with in an intimate way.

November 29, 2023

James 5:15 Such a prayer offered in faith will heal the sick, and the Lord will make you well. And if you have committed any sins, you will be forgiven.

I cannot heal others but God can

I cannot bring change but God can

I cannot save others but God can

Prayer strengthens others to live honorably.

Daddy's Lap

Today I come tired and sad

So much seems slipping away

Daddy can I sit in Your lap awhile

And maybe the pain will flee?

You reach and pull me up

I snuggle in Your lap

You gently touch my brow

And so much falls away

You smile with Your embrace

I long to see Your face

You heal with Your loving touch

My heart breaks and heals

I do not know when I came

But I do not want to leave

"My child return to the fray

I will hold you through today."

I slide into this broken world

Healed to serve once more

But when I weary once again

I will seek Your lap once more.

I LOVE YOU DADDY!!!

November 28, 2023

Colossians 4:2 Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart.

We should be alert and thoughtful when we pray

We should be thankful and worship when we pray

We can scream “HELP ME GOD” when we pray

Prayer is screaming for help from God.

November 27, 2023

1 Corinthians 7:5 Do not deprive each other of sexual relations, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited time so you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. Afterward, you should come together again so that Satan won’t be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

We are a trinity – mind, body and soul

Each affects other – mind, body and soul

For we are one – mind, body and soul

Prayer leads us to knowing God and ourselves deeper.

November 26, 2023

Romans 10:1 Dear brothers and sisters, the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved.

May the people of Israel be saved

May they be at peace with God

May Jerusalem be a place of peace

“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.”

 Blessings

“We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing”

To cry out to God what we want Him to hear

Will we know when we receive His blessing

Or to us a horrible curse will for us appear

The Giver must always decide the blessing

Or the recipient will limit them by fear

Look to God to ordain your daily blessing

And wait and see God’s own glory appear

Lift up my eyes and beauty I see

Lift up my hands and beauty I be

What do You have here for me

What do You want me to see

What do You want me to be

Please God rejoice in me

November 25, 2023

Romans 1:9 God knows how often I pray for you. Day and night I bring you and your needs in prayer to God, whom I serve with all my heart by spreading the Good News about his Son.

I pray for you often

lifting needs to God

by the Good News

of Jesus, God’s Son

Prayer is through the Gospel of Jesus for the Gospel.

November 24, 2023

Acts 16:16 One day as we were going down to the place of prayer, we met a demon-possessed slave girl. She was a fortune-teller who earned a lot of money for her masters.

As we go for prayer

satan will be there

and why for prayer

Prayer is engaging satan through God’s power and glory.

November 23, 2023

Acts 16:13 On the Sabbath we went a little way outside the city to a riverbank, where we thought people would be meeting for prayer, and we sat down to speak with some women who had gathered there.

Went for prayer

There to share

to those there

Pray places you in the right place at the right time.

November 22, 2023

Acts 14:23 Paul and Barnabas also appointed elders in every church. With prayer and fasting, they turned the elders over to the care of the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.

Fasting strengthens prayer

Prayer strengthens fasting

Prayer helps us recognize the joy of giving up and giving for God.

November 21, 2023

Acts 13:3 So after more fasting and prayer, the men laid their hands on them and sent them on their way.

Fasting is giving up for God

Prayer is sharing with others

They go for God and others

Prayer is passing on God’s blessings so they can pass them on.

November 20, 2023

Acts 12:12 When he realized this, he went to the home of Mary, the mother of John Mark, where many were gathered for prayer.

Know where to gather in prayer

Know who to gather with in prayer

Know when to gather in prayer

Prayer helps God’s children play together well.

November 19, 2023

Acts 10:31 He told me, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your gifts to the poor have been noticed by God!

Your care has been noticed

Your gifts have been noticed

Your prayer has been noticed

Prayer changes people and people change things.

November 18, 2023

Acts 6:4 Then we apostles can spend our time in prayer and teaching the word.”

We must spend time with God in prayer

We must spend time in the Written Word

We must spend time with the Living Word

Prayer is guided by the Written Word to know the Living Word.

November 17, 2023

Acts 4:31 After this prayer, the meeting place shook, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. Then they preached the word of God with boldness.

Prayer shakes the foundations of our life

Prayer shakes the foundations of our community

Prayer shakes the foundations of our world

Prayer shakes up and shakes loose all our silly plans.

November 16, 2023

Acts 4:24 When they heard the report, all the believers lifted their voices together in prayer to God: “O Sovereign Lord, Creator of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them—

I pray to the Sovereign Lord

I pray to the Creator Lord

I pray to the Loving Lord

Prayer is communicating with the Lord who created the heavens and the earth.

November 15, 2023

Acts 3:1 Peter and John went to the Temple one afternoon to take part in the three o’clock prayer service.

At three o’clock Jesus died

At three o’clock Peter prayed

At three o’clock John prayed

Prayer helps us to know God and become more like Him.

November 14, 2023

Acts 2:42 All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord’s Supper), and to prayer.

Gather to learn

Gather to love

Gather to share

Gather in prayer

Prayer is how we know we are not alone.

November 13, 2023

Acts 1:14 They all met together and were constantly united in prayer, along with Mary the mother of Jesus, several other women, and the brothers of Jesus.

Gather together to pray

Gather together in prayer

Gather and unite in prayer

Prayer is “Gathering together to ask the Lord’s blessing”.

November 12, 2023

John 17:9 “My prayer is not for the world, but for those you have given me, because they belong to you.

I do not understand this prayer

Why does Jesus have this prayer

I trust in Jesus and His prayer

Prayer is the acceptance of God’s will even when we do not understand.

November 11, 2023

Luke 22:32 But I have pleaded in prayer for you, Simon, that your faith should not fail. So when you have repented and turned to me again, strengthen your brothers.”

I pray for you

I plead for you

I hope for you

Prayer is asking for others what you want yourself.

November 10, 2023

Luke 19:46 He said to them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of thieves.”

Lifting to God my woe

I am a temple of prayer

Lift to God worlds woe

Prayer is "bringing the pains of earth to heaven’s door." by Wayne Watson

November 9, 2023

Luke 18:11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed this prayer: ‘I thank you, God, that I am not a sinner like everyone else. For I don’t cheat, I don’t sin, and I don’t commit adultery. I’m certainly not like that tax collector!

I am broken, please hear me God

I am unworthy, please hear me God

I am afraid, please hear me God

Prayer is realizing I was lost but God never lost me.

November 8, 2023

Luke 11:5 Then, teaching them more about prayer, he used this story: “Suppose you went to a friend’s house at midnight, wanting to borrow three loaves of bread. You say to him,

Can I trust God is there

Can I trust God can hear

Can I trust God will hear

Prayer begins in hope.

November 7, 2023

Luke 5:16 But Jesus often withdrew to the wilderness for prayer.

Prayer can be in a place of comfort

Prayer can be in times of pain

Prayer can be in the wilderness

Prayer isn’t limited by time, place and situation.

November 6, 2023

Luke 2:37 Then she lived as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the Temple but stayed there day and night, worshiping God with fasting and prayer.

Help wanted: prayer warrior

Willing to work all hours

Able to work in own Temple

Prayer is becoming a warrior for God.

November 5, 2023

Luke 1:13 But the angel said, “Don’t be afraid, Zechariah! God has heard your prayer. Your wife, Elizabeth, will give you a son, and you are to name him John.

Do not fear

God will hear

God is here

Prayer is the best antidote for fear.

November 4, 2023

Mark 14:39 Then Jesus left them again and prayed the same prayer as before.

We do not remind God when we pray

Who knows our need before we pray

but we need to cry out when we pray

Prayer in not something a Christian can do but something we must!

November 3,2023

Mark 11:17 He said to them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be called a house of prayer for all nations,’ but you have turned it into a den of thieves.”

If our soul is not a house of prayer

it will become a “den of thieves”

for if we do not pray we rob God

Prayer is a recognition God must be obeyed.

November 2,2023

Mark 9:29 Jesus replied, “This kind can be cast out only by prayer.”

“Leave it to the Lord in prayer”

for there is much we cannot do

So lift it to the Lord in prayer

Prayer can come from what we can’t and only God can.

November 1,2023

Matthew 23:5 “Everything they do is for show. On their arms they wear extra wide prayer boxes with Scripture verses inside, and they wear robes with extra long tassels.

Prayer does not have to be seen

Prayer does not have to be heard

Prayer does have to be lifted to God

Prayer is a direct line to God.

October 31,2023

Matthew 21:13 He said to them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be called a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of thieves!”

If a House of Prayer is the Temple

and my body is to be God’s Temple

make me a House of prayer Temple

Prayer brings my Temple to life.

October 30,2023

Matthew 11:25 At that time Jesus prayed this prayer: “O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, thank you for hiding these things from those who think themselves wise and clever, and for revealing them to the childlike.

The prayer of God we can see

A guide to prayer we do see

May this prayer be seen in me

Prayer helps the good in you become more and more.

October 29,2023

Zechariah 12:10 “Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem. They will look on me whom they have pierced and mourn for him as for an only son. They will grieve bitterly for him as for a firstborn son who has died.

Zechariah promised the pierced would come

Psalm 22 reveals the suffering when He came

Mourn our suffering God bore when He came

Prayer is a time to grieve the pain we caused God.

October 28,2023

Zechariah 1:12 Upon hearing this, the angel of the LORD prayed this prayer: “O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, for seventy years now you have been angry with Jerusalem and the towns of Judah. How long until you again show mercy to them?”

Seventy years of Jubilee not celebrated

Seventy years of dispersion punishment

Two humans lifetimes lost and wasted

Prayer is our opportunity to humbly confess it is our fault.

October 27,2023

Habakkuk 3:19 The Sovereign LORD is my strength! He makes me as surefooted as a deer, able to tread upon the heights. (For the choir director: This prayer is to be accompanied by stringed instruments.)

Write the song of your heart to God

Sing the music of your heart to God

Prayer is joining in the song of Creation.

October 26,2023

Habakkuk 3:1 This prayer was sung by the prophet Habakkuk:

Habakkuk sang his prayer to God

His whole book is a prayer to God

Make my whole life a prayer to God

Prayer is more than what you do, it is who you are!

October 25,2023

Proverbs 28:9 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

If I pray for healing is it good

If I pray for peace is it good

Pray for God’s will it is good

Prayer is asking God to do what we need and not what we want.

October 24,2023

Proverbs 15:29 The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

Am I too far away for God to hear my prayer

Am I too far away for God to answer my prayer

Am I willing to trust God will hear my prayer

Prayer is my attempt to reach God who already reached out to me.