"I aspire to make your life the model for my own, but the reality of my life falls short of my aspirations. By your Spirit, grant me your help that my life might more and more reflect your life into this broken and troubled world." (For the complete prayer, click the link below.)
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Prayer Note #246: Partnering with God in Mission
"Grant me eyes to see your hand at work and wisdom to know how to follow you in this mission, neither lagging behind you nor forging ahead of you." (For the complete prayer, click the link below.)
Prayer Note #245: The Humble Glory of Serving Like Jesus
"Help me to follow you and, by my way of living, to show you to the world in all your humble glory. Amen.” (For the complete prayer, click on the link below.)
Prayer Note #244: A Channel of Life in a World of Death
"In everything, enable me to bear the good fruit that you delight in so that I may be a channel of your new life in this world of death and despair; through Christ the Lord. Amen.” (For the complete prayer, click the link below.)
Prayer Note #243: Broken by Sin–Redeemed to Serve
"May I also—broken and remade—be an instrument of your redemption; for the glory of your Name. Amen.” (For the complete prayer, click the link below.)
Prayer Note #242: Speaking the Truth Lovingly and Humbly
" Grant me wisdom and self-control so that I might bear witness to the truth only in ways that build up love and unity in your church." (For the complete prayer, click the link below.)
Prayer Note #241: Christlike Relationships
"Lord, my God, kind and faithful: Keep me reverent in my dealings with every human being, whether friend or ‘foe’, by reminding me that they bear your image and likeness." (For the complete prayer, click the link below.)
Quote of Note #246: Praying and Doing
"Praying unaccompanied by hard work and work unaccompanied by urgent prayer are two things Jesus Christ not only never preached but never even contemplated as a plausible possibility." J. Baillie (For full quote, click the link below.)
Quote of Note #242: Praying for a Change
". . . all that is said in the New Testament about prayer is said not in the interest of being reconciled to things as they are but in the interest of getting things changed." (For full quote click the link below.)
Quote of Note #231: The “First Law of Prayer”
"There should be in our prayers an astringent honesty with ourselves, so that we may be honest with God, for God sees the secrets of our hearts, and God well knows when we are conventionally asking for blessings which we have no real desire to receive." Wm. Barclay (click link below for full quote)
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