May 12, 2022

 Good morning Lord Jesus. You are my Shepherd, I want to follow You all my days.

Heavenly Father,

Your Word says Your sheep know Your voice and no one can snatch us from Your hand. Though I have wandered from the path You ordained from me at times, You've always been there waiting for me when I return. Your word lights my path, help me follow You -the Light and remain on the path.

We ask You to provide for those in need - clothes, safe housing, food, medical care. We ask You to provide for those who need jobs. We ask You to deliver the oppressed, heal the sick, bring wholeness into broken families. Show us any broken areas in our hearts and minds. We want to be whole in Christ, living out the Gospel according to Your will.

We pray for those grieving, the oppressed, the persecuted, the fearful. We pray for those being traffickked.

We pray for there to be a season of peace around the world, for the ghastly violence to end. We pray for peace in Ukraine, Africa, South and Central America.

We ask You - Shepherd of our souls to hear our prayer. Pour our You mercy, bring cleansing and wholeness, restoratation.

In the Name of the One who laid down His life fo r us, our Good Shepherd - Jesus we pray.

Amen

Palm Sunday 2022

 Good morning Lord Jesus. We praise the splendor of Your holiness, there is no one like You. You willingly died to save all people because Your love is limitless.

Glory be to You - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Lord God,

You are the God who is in heaven, You are sovereign, no one can prevail against You. Help us trust and wait in faith as You answer our prayers in Your perfect timing. We want our faith to increase daily, we want our love for You and others to increase daily, we want to know You more each day. Please help us.

We lift up persecuted Christians and ask You to minister to them, please bring an end to the persecution, please set the unjustly incarcerated free.

We pray for the Russian men who have been conscripted against their will and thrown into a war, we pray for the eilite Russian units who have rebelled and refuse to fight, we pray for the Russian war protestors. Their future is uncertain as they buck the system.

We pray You strengthen the Ukranians who are fighting for their country, we ask You to minister to the people in Ukraine who have lost family, their homes, their cars, their livelihoods. Please bring peace and restoration.

We pray for the Church in Russia and Ukraine to rise up and be what churches are supposed to be, houses of prayer, places where the Gospel is proclaimed boldly with love under the anointing of the Holy Spirit without a legalistic holier than thou attitude.

Please set the Ukranians free, end the war, show the rest of the world what we are to do - more sanctions, more prayer, fasting, praise and worship or all of the above.

In Jesus' Name, the Name above all names we pray.

Amen

03/20/2022

 Good morning Lord Jesus. I pray today I see people with Your eyes and love them with Your heart.

Heavenly Father,

We lift up all the Christian mission and charity operations that continue in Ukraine. We pray for the volunteers who are delivering supplies, driving people to the border, feeding the elderly and everything else they are doing to help. Please protect them, please keep their supply chains and routes open. We thank You for the supplies that have mysteriously shown up and been left at their buildings and offices.

You to confound the Russian leadership on every front. We pray for the Russian people who live under Putin and his government. Most of us will never know such tyranny. Please raise up a godly leader to govern Russia, pour out Your mercy on the Russian people. We ask You to help them.

We continue to pray for the Ukranian people, we ask You to sustain them, protect them, and minister to them.

We pray for candidates running for office in the USA and around the world, we ask You to weed out the corrupt and raise up godly and ethical men and women to run for office.

We pray for peace where there is violence, love where there is hate, compassion where there is apathy. We thank You for Your perfect love Lord God. We thank You for the gift of Your Son, our Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ.

It is in His holy Name we pray.

Amen.

03/16/2022

 Lord God, this is a day You have made. I rejoice and I am glad in it. In the quiet - You are God, in the busyness of the day - You are God, when bombs and missiles fall - You are God.

We lift up the lonely, the fatigued, the grieving, and the ill to You. You know them by name, please remind them You love them. Please bring joy, peace, hope, healing, and a time of refreshing to them. Bless them this day in such a way they know the blessing is from You and is a small measure of how much You love them.

We pray for the Polish people and other Europeans who are taking in refugees, please help them with every detail. Paul tells us:

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Holy Spirit remind us to put Scriptures into practice in our lives, convict us when we are legalistic and unloving.

Lord God, we continue to pray for You to work a mightly miracle in Ukraine. We pray for peace in the entire region, we pray Putin is removed from power and replaced with a man or woman of integrity, someone who serves You. Please confound Russia and Belarus on every front. If Syrian fighters have joined the Russian forces please confound them too.

We pray in the Name of Jesus, Who put on love to the degree He was obedient to death. Amen

03/13/2022

 Good Morning Lord Jesus, You are my Lord and Savior, I want to love people the way You do. Help me Holy Spirit.

Lord God,

I worship You, the eternal I AM. In a world that is always changing You never change.

You are ever present and always relevant because You are always current. You are never the I Was or the I Will Be. We are confident that Your greatness and power are the same today as they were yesterday—in Creation, in the Exodus, in the Cross, in the Resurrection, in the Ascension, on the Day of Pentecost—and they will be the same at the end of time. You are I AM.

How thankful we are to be safe from Your wrath and judgment, under the blood of Your Lamb, that is smeared on the doorposts of our hearts. What joy, we  can approach You in prayer, confident You will receive us. You will listen. You will answer. Because Jesus has risen from the dead! He is alive! He has ascended into Heaven! He sits at Your right hand! And He now lives to pray for Your followers even at this moment as we pray to You! He is the ruling, reigning, soon-to-return King of kings and Lord of lords. The Lamb upon the throne.

Please defend the Ukranians, repel the Russians and their allies. We ask You to put a halt to the war, we pray for peace, we pray for the aggression and violence to end. 

We pray in Jesus' mighty and holy Name. Amen

02/22/2022

 Father God,

Sabers rattle, Mt Etna is awake again, violent crimes are being reported around the world. Civility seems to be on the decline, but we know One sure thing - You are the Lord God Almighty, You are Sovereign and cannot be shaken from Your throne.

Our foundation is built on Jesus Christ not sand, we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with You throught our Lord Jesus Christ. We have also obtained access through Him by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of You, Lord God.

We lift up people who struggle with fear and those who are afraid of the events taking place in the world. We ask You to comfort them and remind them You are with them always. Your perfect love casts out fear.

We lift up people in war zones, we ask You to physically protect them and heal any and all mental trauma caused by their situation.

We pray for diplomacy to work and between Russia and Ukraine, we pray You pour our Your wisdom on the leaders involved.

Lord God, we thank You for the gift of Your Son and the Holy Spirit. Help us dig into Scripture today and every day and stand firm, filled with Your peace, walking in Your love, dying to self.

In Jesus' Name we pray. Amen

02/21/2022

 Good morning, Lord Jesus. King of Kings and Lord of Lords, be exalted on high, here in my heart and every moment of my day.

Holy, Holy, Holy are You, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come.

Father God,

You are holy and to be revered. We praise You and exalt You. We worship You. We know nothing is impossible for You and we can boldly approach You and ask for seeminly impossible things.

We lift up the people of Mexico who are caught in the middle of cartel turf wars. We ask You to protect them from all harm. We lift up the military who is mine sweeping on the roads in cartel territory, please keep them safe and give them the skills they need as they work under intense pressure.

We ask You to raise up people of integrity to govern Mexico. We ask You to dismantle the cartels, we pray for You to thwart their every move, we pray the money no longer flows and all their criminal endeavors fail.

We pray for schools to be safe to attend and the students will learn. We ask You to raise up great caring teachers throughout the country.

WWe pray the natural resources of Mexico - the oil, minerals, good farm land benefit the citizens and do not simply line the pockets of corrupt people.

Please shut the coyotes downs, please end the human and drug traffiking.

We pray for he church to rise up and be a place of healing, a place of prayer vigils, a place of outreach, a place of miracles.

We pray in the mighty Name of Jesus. Amen

02/10/2022

 Good morning Lord Jesus. I pray Your Name is exalted today and not used in vain. I want my heart to be centered on You, I want my words to reflect You, to be encouraging, to be true, and to be few.

Lord of Mercy, God of Grace, hear us as we pray. You have promised when Your people, who call ourselves by Your name would set aside our pride and self-righteousness and pray, seeking You not men to solve our problems, turning from our sin, heaven will move. Sin would be forgiven. Hearts would be changed. And You will bless our land.

We confess to You our dependence on self, on the government, on anything and everything but You. We pray for forgiveness as we have ignored the plight of many who are unjustly incarcerated, who are mentally ill, who are far below the poverty line. You require us to care for the widows, the orphans, the least of these. We also ask forgiveness for __________________________________________ (name national sins the Holy Spirit lays on your heart.)

We ask You to cleanse us by the blood of Your precious Son our Savior. Please hear our prayer. Forgive our sin. Heal our land. We pray for the the glory of Your Name in the Name of Jesus. Amen

02/06/2022

 

Good morning Lord Jesus. You are the Alpha and Omega, the Lamb Who was slain before for the foundation of the world. Please reveal Yourself to the lost around the world who have never heard You died to save them, heal them, and deliver them so they can live victoriously in You.

Father God,

We read Your holy Word which alive and active and sharper than a double edged sword. Please help us apply it to our daily life - our thinking, our words, times in which we are to hold our tongue. We want Your Word to penetrate every fiber of our being.

If we are blinded in anyway, remove the scales from our eyes, if we are spiritually deaf, open our ears, if our hearts have turned to stone please replace them with a heart of flesh that beats for You.

Jesus said “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

We want to keep Your commandments and abide in Your love, producing good fruit. We want to hear Your voice when we need to make changes, when we need to confess our sins and repent so a pruning is not required. We want to flourish in our lives living for You.

Glory be to You - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Your glory is beyond compare.

We pray for Your glory in the Name of Jesus.

Amen



 Good morning Lord Jesus, Risen Son of the Most High God. You rode triumphantly into Jerusalem with throngs of people crying Hosanna! You rode in, knowing it was a matter of days before Your arrest and crucifixion because of Your great love for us. Thank You.

Heavenly Father.

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with You, Heavenly Father through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through Him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of Your glory. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because Your love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but You show Your love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from Your wrath. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to You by the death of Your Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by His life. More than that, we also rejoice in You through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

Holy Spirit, help us grow in faith if we are lagging, help us live out the Gospel with every fiber of our being.

We pray all people come to know they are redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, Jesus Christ. In Him they will find eternal life.

In Jesus' precious Name we pray. Amen

January 18, 2022

 Good morning Lord Jesus. You are the Good Shepherd, I want to recognize and hear Your voice. Help me listen Holy Spirit, open my spiritual ears, show me anything I've allowed into my life that is causing me to be spiritually deaf.

Father God,

You are holy, You require us to live holy lives, giving all we are and all we have to You.

If we holding back, if we are hypocrites, if we are arrogant, if we are_____________________________________ (fill in the blank) we want to turn away from those things that separate us from You and pursue those things that will bring us closer to You each day,

Show us if we need to fast from food for a day or a type of food for a period of time, show us is we need to fast from the Internet, TV, sports, shopping, ______________________________.

The Jews used to rend their garments at times, an outward sign like sackcloth, but You wanted them to rend their hearts and return to You. Please show us if our hearts are more concerned with us than You.

We ask You to cleanse us with the blood of Your Son our Savior. Hear our prayer. Forgive our sin. Have mercy.

We pray for the glory of Your Name in the Name of Jesus.

Amen

Gratitude & Grace

 Good morning Lord Jesus. You are the Way, the Truth, the Life. The more I love You and serve You, the more I know the Father. Glory to You - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Heavenly Father,

No matter our opinion, no matter what we think should be done, no matter what has been done, Covid has made itself known in every area of life from deaths to very ill friends and family to short staffing and supply chain disruptions.

Please give us the unction to pray about it instead of ranting about it. When we see a local business closed for a few days due to sick employees, we should pray for them not have a tantrum. When we wait in line because only 2 of 15 employees are working 12 hour shifts due to ill coworkers, help us react with grace and patience.

Grocery shelves are not stocked as we Americans typically expect. Our brothers and sisters around the world would love to buy butter, it would not occur to them to explode because there were only 2 brands to choose from at the store. Help us see current supplies and lack of supplies in perspective.

Your word tells us “Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages, and six pounds of barley for a day’s wages." Remind us to be grateful we have food to buy. Remind us to be grateful we have money to purchase food and other necessities.

We don't know the day or the hour the trump will sound and Your Son will return, it could be before I finish typing this prayer, it could be in 100 years, but each minute that passes the day gets closer and life gets harder. We want to live in expectancy, filled with grace, closing all doors to sin.

Help us Lord God, we cannot do it without You, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.

In Jesus' Mighty Name we pray. Amen