To those who have been called, who are loved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance. Jude 1-2 Glorious Triune God, on this hot and humid summer morning, I’m overwhelmed as I ponder the immeasurable and irrepressible goodness of the life we have [...]
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A Prayer for Being Even More Smitten with Jesus
March 24, 2012 – 5:47 am
Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them. We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat. Heb. 13:9-10 Dear Lord [...]
A Prayer about “Trick or Treat” Spirituality
October 31, 2011 – 5:03 am
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great cloud a of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith. Heb. 12:1-2 Lord Jesus, over the course [...]
A Prayer for a Dancing Heart, and Feet
September 18, 2011 – 5:01 am
You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, that my heart may sing your praises and not be silent. Lord my God, I will praise you forever. Ps. 30:11-12 Lord Jesus, was there ever a king more into dancing than King David? His victory over Goliath was the [...]
A Prayer for Greater Gospel Astonishment
March 22, 2011 – 4:57 am
I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead. I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider [...]
A Prayer of Praise to Jesus
February 18, 2011 – 5:28 am
Sing aloud, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem! The Lord has taken away the judgments against you; he has cleared away your enemies. The King of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst; you shall never again fear evil. On that day [...]
March 28, 2010 – 4:50 am
Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. I will take away the chariots from Ephraim and the war-horses from Jerusalem, and the battle bow will be broken. He [...]
