July 16,2023

Jeremiah 7:16 “Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, nor make intercession to Me; for I will not hear you.

Why does God not listen

Does God not hear prayer

Should I not listen to God

As I join with God in prayer

Prayer helps me be part of a solution instead of being part of a problem.

July 15,2023

Isaiah 45:20 “Assemble yourselves and come; Draw near together, You who have escaped from the nations. They have no knowledge, Who carry the wood of their carved image, And pray to a god that cannot save.

Do no pray to a god

Do not pray to God

Pray WITH God

Prayer is God finishing your sentence and beginning the next one.

July 14,2023

Isaiah 38:3 and said, “Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Should I pray to live longer

For the gift of life is so dear

Should I trust in God’s time

Do I want to God draw near

Prayer makes me homesick for heaven, a place I long to be.

 July 13,2023

Isaiah 16:12 And it shall come to pass, When it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, That he will come to his sanctuary to pray; But he will not prevail.

Prayer is not a guarantee

Prayer is a promise of God

Prayer is for any place

Prayer is a gift of God

Prayer is seeking God’s will and trusting in it.

For many, if not all, hard times are a regular occurrence, and this song expresses the cry and even prayer of many hearts. 

Hard Times Come Again No More

Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears
While we all sup sorrow with the poor
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears
Oh, hard times, come again no more

'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary
Hard times, hard times, come again no more
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door
Oh, hard times, come again no more

While we seek mirth and beauty and music, light and gay
There are frail forms fainting at the door
Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say
Oh, hard times, come again no more

'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary
Hard times, hard times, come again no more
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door
Oh, hard times, come again no more

There's a pale weeping maiden who toils her life away
With a worn heart whose better days are o'er
Though her voice would be merry, 'tis sighing all the day
Oh, hard times come again no more

'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary
Hard times, hard times, come again no more
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door
Oh, hard times, come again no more

'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary
Hard times, hard times, come again no more
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door
Oh, hard times, come again no more

'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary
Hard times, hard times, come again no more
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door
Oh, hard times, come again no more

Oh, hard times, come again no more
Oh, hard times, come again no more

Songwriters: David Robinson, Andrew Yates, Jonathan Darley, Robert Sattin. For non-commercial use only.

"If you can’t fly, then run, If you can’t run, then walk, If you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward." - Martin Luther King Jr.

July 12,2023

Psalm 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they prosper who love you.

“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem”

Pray for the peace in your nation

Pray for peace within your family

Pray for peace with you and God

Prayer is God's way of helping me to love my enemies. It is hard to hate someone you are really praying for.

July 11,2023

Psalm 119:108 Accept, I pray, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, And teach me Your judgments.

Receive my pray God

Receive my praise God

Teach me Your way God

Teach me about You God

Prayer is when the Trinity is experienced as I pray to the Father, by the Holy Spirit in the Name and authority of Jesus Christ!

July 10,2023

Psalm 119:76 Let, I pray, Your merciful kindness be for my comfort, According to Your word to Your servant.

Your mercy is my need

Your Kindness is comfort

Your Word is nourishing

Prayer is at its best when you run out of words.

July 9,2023

Psalm 118:25 Save now, I pray, O LORD; O LORD, I pray, send now prosperity.

“I need Your every hour”

I need You God I pray

Meet my need I pray

I trust Your promise

Prayer is a cry for help.

July 8,2023

Psalm 55:17 Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, And He shall hear my voice.

Evening to God I pray

Morning to God I pray

Noon to God I pray

All day to God I pray

Prayer is more than what you do, it is who you are!

July 7,2023

Psalm 32:6 For this cause everyone who is godly shall pray to You In a time when You may be found; Surely in a flood of great waters They shall not come near him.

God help me in the midst of the fray

or I will not survive what comes today

God please guide my feet on Your Way

help me not get lost or to go astray

Prayer is sitting in your Daddy's lap!

July 6,2023

Psalm 5:2 Give heed to the voice of my cry, My King and my God, For to You I will pray.

Hear me God

Hear my cry

Hear my need

Hear me God

Prayer is a friend enjoying time with a Friend.

July 5,2023

Job 42:8 “Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant Job shall pray for you. For I will accept him, lest I deal with you according to your folly; because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.”

Pay to pray

Value of prayer

If had a need

Worth the cost

Prayer is freedom for the prisoners, healing for the sick, love for the lonely, and life for the dying.

July 4,2023

Job 33:26 He shall pray to God, and He will delight in him, He shall see His face with joy, For He restores to man His righteousness.

Cry out to God in prayer

find God’s desire for prayer

we can see God in prayer

be restored through prayer

Prayer reconnects me to God.

July 3,2023

Job 32:21 Let me not, I pray, show partiality to anyone; Nor let me flatter any man.

Everyone is a people

Treat all as people

Everyone is a people

Prayer is how God makes you more like Him.

July 2,2023

Job 21:15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?’

Who are You God

Are You Almighty

should I serve You

should I pray to You

Prayer is how we discover who God wants us to be.

"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln

July 1,2023

Job 10:9 Remember, I pray, that You have made me like clay. And will You turn me into dust again?

From dust to dust they say

for were are made from clay

we will be dust again some day

Prayer is our introduction to God and who we really are.

June 30, 2023

Nehemiah 1:5 And I said: “I pray, LORD God of heaven, O great and awesome God, You who keep Your covenant and mercy with those who love You and observe Your commandments,

Be faithful God I pray

I need You God I pray

Be faithful God I pray

I want You God I pray

Prayer in not something a Christian can do but something we must!

June 29, 2023

Ezra 6:10 that they may offer sacrifices of sweet aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king and his sons.

May our prayer be a sweet incense to you

a sacrifice of love as well of our need

Bless our leaders and their families

so life can be a blessing for all of us

Prayer let's God peel the scales of self from my eyes to see others and their pain.