Tag Archives : Prayer

Help in prayer

26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit in
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Better is one day

Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked. Psalms 84:10 As I turn to my schedule and come to today’s planned verse, I can still hear m
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Guard your heart

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. Proverbs 4:23 In the New Testament we read that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. According to Proverbs, it’s apparently more than just our words that come
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Love abounding

9 And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, 10 so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that
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Partnership

3 I thank my God every time I remember you. 4 In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy 5 because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, 6 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carr
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God Botherers

4 ‘For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, “Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack
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Prayer: Greater is he that is in you

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. Mat 6:13 The Reformation Study Bible says of this verse: “The forgiven pray this petition because they trust God and they distrust themselves. The Father may test us (Mat 4:1; Deut.
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Prayer: Reality check

8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we make him ou
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Prayer: Daily bread

Give us today our daily bread. Mat 6:11 The first half of the Lord’s prayer has taught us that God comes first and his glory is what we are primary after in everything that we do. The second half teaches to express our total dependence on him.
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Prayer: Bringing heaven to earth

Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Mat 6:10 14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us – whatever we ask – we know that we have
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