June 28, 2023
2Chronicles 7:14 “if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
God please hear my prayer
please let me return to You
Help me live in Your will
and heal the land You gave
Prayer is the source of power, grace, love, faith and hope in Jesus Christ.
June 27, 2023
2Chronicles 6:40 “Now, my God, I pray, let Your eyes be open and let Your ears be attentive to the prayer made in this place.
If God loses me I am lost indeed
Please see me God I pray
If God loses me I am lost indeed
Please hear me God I pray
Prayer is realizing I was lost but God never lost me.
June 26, 2023
2Chronicles 6:38 “and when they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have been carried captive, and pray toward their land which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and toward the temple which I have built for Your name:
God I pray
set me free
God I return
set me free
Prayer opens me to see the glory of God rather than the power of evil.
June 25, 2023
2Chronicles 6:34 “When Your people go out to battle against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to You toward this city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name,
We are in a war
A spiritual war
Need God’s help
Pray for help
Prayer is "bringing the pains of earth to heaven’s door."
June 24, 2023
2Chronicles 6:32 “Moreover, concerning a foreigner, who is not of Your people Israel, but who comes from a far country for the sake of Your great name and Your mighty hand and Your outstretched arm, when they come and pray in this temple;
Who can pray to God
All can pray to God
Prayer is God's attempt to remind me everything He did was so He could walk with me again.
June 23, 2023
2Chronicles 6:26 “When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them,
Come clean with God
Be cleaned by God
Be clean with God
Prayer is releasing Gods' holy power into a fallen and broken world.
June 20, 2023
1Chronicles 21:17 And David said to God, “Was it not I who commanded the people to be numbered? I am the one who has sinned and done evil indeed; but these sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I pray, O LORD my God, be against me and my father’s house, but not against Your people that they should be plagued.”
My sin hurts God
My sin hurts others
Please punish me God
Please not others
Prayer is accepting my guilt and taking punishment myself and not others.
June 19, 2023
1Chronicles 21:8 So David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing; but now, I pray, take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”
I have sinned
Sinned greatly
Forgive me God
For being a fool
Prayer is unloading my guilt, fear and sin onto He who already bore it.
June 18, 2023
1Chronicles 17:25 “For You, O my God, have revealed to Your servant that You will build him a house. Therefore Your servant has found it in his heart to pray before You.
You have revealed
I pray before You
You have revealed
my family You bless
Prayer is humbly admitting I can't and that I need God.
June 17, 2023
2Kings 20:3 “Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Why is bad happening to me
I walked before You in truth
I walked with a loyal heart
I have done what is good
Why is bad happening to me
Prayer is despair seeking hope and joy expressed to He who is the source.
June 15, 2023
2Kings 6:18 So when the Syrians came down to him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, and said, “Strike this people, I pray, with blindness.” And He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
Dare I pray for God to blind others
Dare I pray for God to harm others
Dare I pray for God to destroy others
Dare I ask God how I should pray
Prayer is daring to ask God to reveal who He is.
June 14, 2023
2Kings 6:17 And Elisha prayed, and said, “LORD, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” Then the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
Open my eyes to see
Open my ears to hear
Please reveal to me
Your glory God
Prayer is my attempt to reach God who already reached out to me.
June 13, 2023
1Kings 17:21 And he stretched himself out on the child three times, and cried out to the LORD and said, “O LORD my God, I pray, let this child’s soul come back to him.”
Is prayer a request
Is prayer a quest to know what to request
Is prayer an action
Is prayer God calling us to be part of His action
Prayer helps me be part of a solution instead of being part of a problem.
June 12, 2023
1Kings 13:6 Then the king answered and said to the man of God, “Please entreat the favor of the LORD your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me.” So the man of God entreated the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him, and became as before.
Can I pray for a miracle
Should I pray for a miracle
Can God create a miracle
Will God create a miracle
Prayer is seeking God’s will and trusting in it.
June 11, 2023
1Kings 8:48 “and when they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and pray to You toward their land which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name:
I pray
I can return
I pray
I will return
Prayer reconnects me to God.
June 10, 2023
1Kings 8:44 “When Your people go out to battle against their enemy, wherever You send them, and when they pray to the LORD toward the city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name,
Should I pray toward Jerusalem
Should I pray toward the Holy City
Should I pray toward Israel
I will to our Lord Jesus Christ
Prayer is a friend enjoying time with a Friend.
June 9, 2023
1Kings 8:35 “When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them,
In affliction call me to return God
for I am a fallen child made of sod
Whenever I suffer from sins pain
I pray my God for redeeming rain
Prayer is answering God’s call to me.
June 8, 2023
1Kings 8:33 “When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and when they turn back to You and confess Your name, and pray and make supplication to You in this temple,
I have turned away God
I sinned against you God
I turn back to you God
I pray forgiveness God
"Relying on God has to start all over everyday, as if nothing has yet been done." –C. S. Lewis
June 7, 2023
1Kings 8:30 “And may You hear the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Hear in heaven Your dwelling place; and when You hear, forgive.
Pray to God
God will hear
Ask your God
May God forgive
Prayer in not something a Christian can do but something we must!
June 5, 2023
2Samuel 24:17 Then David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, “Surely I have sinned, and I have done wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I pray, be against me and against my father’s house.”
Could I ever pray
penalty of my sin
would fall on me
and not others
Pray is taking responsibility for my sin.
June 4, 2023
2Samuel 24:10 And David’s heart condemned him after he had numbered the people. So David said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, I pray, O LORD, take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”
I sinned in what I have done
sinned in what I haven’t done
in what I should have done
in what I could have done
Take away my iniquity I pray
redeem me from my sin I pray
forgive my foolishness I pray
keep others from harm I pray
Prayer is God's attempt to remind me everything He did was so He could walk with me again.
June 3, 2023
2Samuel 15:31 Then someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O LORD, I pray, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”
Confuse those who seek to destroy
may foolishness themselves destroy
for while evil does seek to destroy
by evil they will themselves destroy
Prayer is "bringing the pains of earth to heaven’s door." (Based on a song by Wayne Watson “When God’s people pray”.)
June 2, 2023
1Samuel 23:11 “Will the men of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as Your servant has heard? O LORD God of Israel, I pray, tell Your servant.” And the LORD said, “He will come down.”
Can I hear God
Will you listen
Does God hear me
Will you listen
Prayer is more than what you do, it is who you are!
May 31,2023
1Samuel 12:19 And all the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to the LORD your God, that we may not die; for we have added to all our sins the evil of asking a king for ourselves.”
Lead ourselves
all fall down
Led by God
are lifted up
Prayer is how we discover who God wants us to be.
