Father God,

Today, I pray for a right understanding of what it means to be a child of the Living God to spread broad and deep among Your people. For so many, the name Christian is an adjective which opens the door to a social network. For many others, the name is something passed down in their family and worn as a badge until it happens to be inconvenient. For many, it has become like clothes that can be worn when helpful and left in a closet when bothersome. For many, it has become so distorted that it is barely recognizable. For others, it becomes a burden that must be cast away and trampled upon.

For those who truly bear the Name above all names, who are filled by the Spirit, who have been reborn into the kingdom, we still need to learn how precious is this name. We still need to learn how this name should change everything within us and all that comes out of us. Our lives should reflect the changes within us.

Teach us Oh Lord where we are poorly reflecting the change of our hearts. Show us where we are misunderstanding the beauty of this name. Move us to shine light into the darkness, to pour living water into the desert, and to stand on the Rock of Truth in everything we do (Col. 3:23).

Forgive us where we fall short in this in our daily walk.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.

Father God,

Today, I pray for our nation to have a restoration to right reasoning. As we in our nation have strayed further and further away from You as the basis for all truth, so many have continued that slide and found themselves even questioning the existence of truth and reason. Either in practical or philosophical ways, they reason as if there is no reason.

In our society, we see more and more decisions and positions being based on feelings and inconsistent reasoning. This denial of reasoning not only separates us from Your Truth, but separates us one from another. Each pursues and does what is right in his own eyes rather than submitting to the reality that Your Word is meant to guide our paths and You designed all things to work according to reason and order as part of that Truth. You are not a God who walks in chaos nor did You create us for chaos, but You laid the foundations in accordance with Your ordered Will and ordained that we should walk in Truth.

Restore us to clear reasoning by beginning with the fear of the Lord and extending Your truth and rule over every area of life.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.

Father God,

Today, I pray for Your Gospel’s Truth to permeate the depths and breadths of both our individual lives and also our collective lives. We know it cannot fully change society unless it has changed the stony hearts into regenerated hearts loving You, but once the hearts are alive again to serve You, let them pour living water into the surrounding world.

As we submit more and more of our lives to Your Word, let our interactions with others reflect the changes in our own heart such that the darkness of present society is swallowed by light. Turn our foolishness of following culture’s worldviews that we have accepted into a willingness to turn towards Your ways of walking out life as brothers and sisters in Christ.

Enable us to see clearly how belonging to Christ changes how we interact with everything else in this world. Let us no longer be deceived by the lie that our faith is only personal. Let us be convicted by the Spirit that our faith should be living in every area of not only personal but also collective life in neighborhoods, in towns, in our social groups, in our states, in our nation, and in the world. Show us how to bring all things under Christ in our lives.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.

Father God,

Today, I pray for Truth to prevail in our nation by Your people seeing it, comprehending it, and proclaiming it. I pray that those who call You Father would be filled with the wisdom of the tribe of Issachar (I Chron 12:32), filled with the courage of a lion, and filled with the strength of the Holy Spirit.

I pray that You would speak through such Godly leaders to the masses who are still swayed by the smooth talk of the world and remove the scales from Your people’s eyes. I pray that Your Truth would prevail over the lies and deceptions of the world.

l pray that each of us would desire and diligently seek to be like the tribe of Issachar in our pursuit of glorifying Your Name with all that we do in life (Col. 3:23).

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.

Father God,
Today, I pray for the ability to sit quietly before Your face and to enjoy Your glory and beauty, allowing that time of quietness to then carry forward into the rest of my day of the world’s chaos. While I do need that time of pouring out my heart and soul to You, repenting and seeking Your provision, I also need that time of gazing upon Your glory and remembering Your love in quietness and awe.

Let each of us who are known by You as Your children be drawn into that presence daily so that we step into each day with that calmness giving us strength, wisdom, courage, and hope for whatever we face. As we seek You in union with Christ, on account of His finished work, grant that we may enjoy time Coram Deo each day.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.

Father God,

Today, I pray that You would restore a right understanding of relationship and community to Your people. I pray that we would see not only a setting down of phone screens, but a self-awareness of our need for Your Spirit to reform and revive community. I pray that we would move beyond the superficiality of sociality and restore the Truth that the world show know us by our love for one another lived out in obedience to Your Word.

I pray against the disintegration and isolation of so many living in suffering without others to comfort. I pray against the fingers of chaos of the enemy which disconnect and alienate. I pray against the watered down understanding of what real community is.

I plead that Your Spirit would bring together Your people in the depth of community and fellowship that only You can create despite our brokenness.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.

Father God,

Today, I pray for those who are so weary that they struggle with words, even thoughts to pray. I pray for those who feel in free fall over a cliff who ask what now can preserve them. I pray for those whose struggles are so profound that their numbness extends into their mind and soul leaving them unable to process.

I pray that though their resources and their strength fails them, though the world around them fails them, You, the I am, Yahweh, God Almighty, would deliver them from the hand of the Destroyer who seeks their destruction. Lord God Almighty, answer the prayers of the broken hearted, the broken bodied, those left bound up in their struggle to hold on to hope.

Strike down the Destroyer. Cut off His hand, his fingers that touch the lives of Your Children. Let the sun rise again and bring life that conquers death in all its forms.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen

Father God,

Today, I pray that You would give insight and understand to Your children. Our humanly limitations leave us short so often in earthly and heavenly understanding. We see from an earthly perspective both partially and through cloudy lens. We then try to put those partial and clouded insights together in order to walk in this world through various decisions and trials. Our humanly abilities and best efforts often fall short. We either face forks in the road which are unclear and even when we see clearly from a standpoint of right versus wrong, our courage struggles to press forward against the weight of the world.

Today, I pray that You would pull back the veil of our limitations, and reveal truth to us that guides all of our steps as You call us to pray for all things. We therefore pray first that we would see all decisions in our life from the spiritual standpoint of right versus wrong. I pray that we would see all things through the light of Scripture and have the courage to turn from the wrong and follow the right.

I also pray that as we look upon the decisions before us and see that some choices are not cast in right or wrong, but could be just as Godly in different directions, that You would show us which of these choices are best for us. There are many things we face where no sin can be seen in either direction, but choose a direction we must. After you reveal to us the morality of a decision, unveil to us the choices which lead to the more blessed outcomes for us and our families or others under our care.

Then, as You uncover for us the steps which we should take, give us the strength to move forward, step by step, looking to You all along the way for both the light and the strength to press forward towards walking with You day by day.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.

PS: Some days, I find it challenging to put things exactly into words that weigh upon my spirit at the time. In this prayer, in simplest terms, I ask that God guide us in all our steps through all our days leading us to the green pastures of the Good Shepherd.

Father God,

Today, I pray for our nation and its leaders to turn back to You and to Your Truth. I pray that a genuine love of Truth would return to the public square and halls of justice. I pray that the fear of God would drive the multitudes to seek You in Your Word, to submit to that Word, and to pursue holiness and justice in society.

I pray that You would fill the nights of those who refuse to submit with restlessness. For those who rebel against Your Word, may they be constantly burdened by guilt, not able to rest. For those who pervert Your Word, feigning love of the Word, yet turning it into falsehoods as they speak, silence them, remove their influence, and uncover their nakedness.

Forgive us as a people for having looked to the wolves, to the rebels, to our own sinful hearts for light and guidance. Turn our ears and hearts away from them and set our eyes and ears on the only source of Truth in You.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.