Prayer for today ------------------------- If we hope to do anything useful in this world, we need God's wisdom. The good news is, if we ask for wisdom, God will not hold back. James 1:5 promises God will give wisdom to anyone who asks for it. We ought to pray like this (based on the definition of wisdom as in James 3:17,18): Lord, make me hungry for a pure heart. Lord, help me be a peacemaker, not a peace-breaker. Lord, give me grace to reply gently when I feel like blowing my top. Lord, deliver me from feeling like I always need to defend myself. Lord, open my eyes to see the hurting people who need my help. Lord, set me free from partiality and favoritism. Lord, make me a person whose life is an open book. Lord, use me to plant seeds that will reap a great harvest for you. - From Sermon by Ray Prichard - Seven Marks of God's Wisdom (July 15, 2017) Lord God, when I am tempted to take matters into my own hands, remind me to wait lest by my impatience I run ahead of you. Amen. - From Good Words for Today: Sept 19, 2018 (KeepBelieving) Lord, give me the right words to say to those who don't know you. And give them ears to hear the words you give me. Amen. - From Sermon by Ray Prichard - The Great Divide (Nov 23, 2003) Gracious Father, Teach us to trust you more and more. When we are tempted to do it ourselves, bring us down to the place where we must cry out for your help. Forgive us for living as if we were God and you are not. We thank you for giving us exactly what we need, when we need it, not a moment too soon, and not moment too late. Having received so much from you, we ask one thing more. Give us grateful hearts. Amen. - Good Words for Today(Oct 16, 2016) from KeepBelieving Ministries Good Lord, save me from myself today. Deliver me from rudeness, irritability, sarcasm, quick put-downs, and remind me not to roll my eyes or sigh or mutter under my breath. In short, Lord, do a miracle in me today because I need one. Amen. - Good Words for Today(May 24, 2016) from KeepBelieving Ministries Heavenly Father, you are in charge of everything that is going to happen to me today - whether it be good or bad, positive or negative. Please make me thankful for everything that happens to me today. Amen. - from KeepBelieving Ministries Spirit of God, I pray for the grace not to be overly surprised by anything that happens to me today. Amen. - Good Words for Today(Sept 3, 2016) from KeepBelieving Ministries The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is to pray. It is not the only thing. But it is the chief thing. The great people of the earth today are the people who pray; not those who talk about prayer; nor those who say they believe in prayer; nor those who can explain about prayer; but those who take time to pray. (Prayer Powerpoints, p. 184) - S. D. Gordon Help us to do our very best this day and be content with today's troubles, so that we shall not borrow the troubles of tomorrow. Save us from the sin of worrying, lest stomach ulcers be the badge of our lack of faith. Amen. - Peter Marshall's prayer on May 8, 1947 When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time ran. When older still I daily grew, time flew. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? - Henry Twells Isaiah 62:6-7 (Pray, and Give Him No Rest) -------------- I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.