Ray Noah52 Simple Prayers – Ray Noah https://raynoah.com Faith In Motion Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:15:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 1205010 God, Help Me To See My Real Enemy https://raynoah.com/2020/07/23/god-help-me-to-see-my-real-enemy-2/ https://raynoah.com/2020/07/23/god-help-me-to-see-my-real-enemy-2/#respond Thu, 23 Jul 2020 07:01:53 +0000 Ray Noah http://raynoah.com/?p=27148 52 Simple Prayers for Each Week of the Year

Satan hates God, but since he can’t get to God, he goes after you. He is behind every conflict, upheaval, and attack in your life and in your world. Of course, he manipulates people and uses circumstances in the visible realm, but make no mistake, the Enemy is behind it all seeking to steal, kill and destroy. Don’t fall for attacking the wrong enemy. Put on the armor of God and take the fight to the Evil One. And don’t fear: Jesus already defeated him at the cross. You’re just in the mop up campaign, and it will last just a little while longer.

“ For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

—EPHESIANS 6:12

A Simple Prayer to Defeat Satan:

God, help me to see the real enemy—The Enemy—behind every conflict, every upheaval, and every attack. Too often I focus on “flesh and blood” causes, but it is the Evil One who hates me because I belong to you. It is he who uses people and circumstances to derail your plan for me and my trust in your sufficiency. So give me eyes to see, help me to exercise discernment, and remind me to go to battle against him in the armor you have provided the next time I am tempted to take it out on someone else.
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You are launching into a new year. You can slip into it quietly, or you can burst into it bigly. If your desire is to rise above your pain this year—your history, your constraints, your character—then lift it to God. If your goal is God’s uncommon blessing in your life this year, dare to ask him for it. If your dream is to seize new territory this year—spiritual, financial, relational abundance—ask God to bring it under your span of control. Just pray—bigly. God may just grant your request for a super-abundant 2019!

“ Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez, saying, “I gave birth to him in pain.” He cried out to God, “Oh that you’d bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request.

—2 CHRONICLES 4:9-10

A Simple Prayer for God to Bless Me Bigly:

God, bless me bigly in 2019. In whatever I set out to do, grant me divine success—a lot of it! Cause your presence to go before me and let your hand be upon me. Keep me from being harmed and keep me from causing pain. Increase my Kingdom impact. I pray this for your glory alone. Amen.
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We desperately need a Savior—one who will deliver us from our sinful nature and from this sinful world: “Gabriel said, ‘You are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.’” (Matt. 1:21) We desperately need a Christ—one anointed as our Messiah to redeem us and bring us into right standing with God: “In him we have redemption.” (Eph. 1:7) And we desperately need a Lord—one who has rulership over our lives and our world: “And he will reign over Israel forever; his Kingdom will never end!” (Luke 1:33) In Jesus, God gave us One who is Savior, Christ and Lord.

“ Today in the town of David a Savior has been born for you; Christ the Lord.

—LUKE 2:11
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A Simple Prayer For Christmas Joy:

Jesus, you are Savior — through you all my sins are gone. Jesus you are Lord — sovereign over all that will happen in my life today — good or bad. And Jesus, you are Christ — God’s anointed for my life. For that, I choose to be joyful in you. Amen.
]]> https://raynoah.com/2018/12/24/god-thank-you-for-sending-your-son/feed/ 0 27909 God, Reignite My Love For You https://raynoah.com/2018/12/24/god-reignite-my-love-for-you/ https://raynoah.com/2018/12/24/god-reignite-my-love-for-you/#respond Mon, 24 Dec 2018 08:01:53 +0000 Ray Noah http://raynoah.com/?p=27761 52 Simple Prayers for 2018

Like the love of a husband and wife that grows cold through the years, as a believer, you can grow cold in your love for the Lord. It’s not like you hate God, or are angry with him. It’s not even that you ignore him, are indifferent to him, or are not even doing things for him. You just have not kept your passionate love for him as the number one priority of your life. The truth is, God wants your heart more than anything else—more than your head, what you know about him, and your hands, what you do for him. He pleadingly says to you, “Do you love me more than these?”

“ Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first.

—REVELATION 2:4-5

A Simple Prayer To Love God Like I Did At First:

God, I do love you. But I have taken you for granted. I have often been more engaged in doing for you than in loving you. Please forgive me, and give me the grace to remember how pure and right and fulfilling it was for me when you first rescued me from spiritual darkness and eternal death With the help of your Holy Spirit, I will keep my love for you as the first and highest priority of my life.
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You cannot listen to the Hallelujah Chorus from George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah” without getting goose bumps. That’s not only because the Hallelujah Chorus is a tremendously moving piece, it is because it strikes a God-implanted chord deep within the human soul. It touches an undeniable reality that we intuitively know, whether we are Christ-followers or not: the final act to be played out in the cosmic drama is the indisputable exaltation of our God and the unfettered reign of his Christ.

“ The seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices shouting in heaven: The world has now become the Kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever..

—REVELATION 11:15

A Simple Prayer for this World to Become the Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ:

God, I long for that day when this world truly and fully becomes the Kingdom of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. So today I pray, let your Kingdom come, let your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. May this be the day.
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The underlying spirit in all complaints is that we don’t trust the sovereign plan of God that has allowed us to be in the undesirable state about which we are complaining. Likewise, our complaint indicates that we don’t trust that his power will see us through it and accomplish his purposes by it. That is why all complaints, even if they are directed at another person or a situation, is really a complaint, a sin, against the Sovereign Lord. And what makes it worse, complaining spreads like a wildfire, leaving the ashes of doubt and distrust in its aftermath. We must reject our spiritual temper-tantrums for tempered trust in the One who does all things well.

“ Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life.

—PHILIPPIANS 2:14-16

A Simple Prayer To Not Be A Whiner:

God, keep me from grumbling, complaining and whining—about people, circumstances, and even you. Give me more grace to trust that you are working all things—irritating people, unfair circumstances, unmet expectations—for your glory and my good. Give me the good sense to get a grip when I start to gripe, the discipline to turn my protest into praise, and the driving conviction that positive faith not only pleases you, it makes me bright light in a culture that is so quickly offended.
]]> https://raynoah.com/2018/12/10/god-help-me-to-get-a-grip-when-i-start-to-gripe/feed/ 2 27813 God, I Want to Love Like Jesus Loved https://raynoah.com/2018/12/03/god-i-want-to-love-like-jesus-loved/ https://raynoah.com/2018/12/03/god-i-want-to-love-like-jesus-loved/#respond Mon, 03 Dec 2018 08:01:02 +0000 Ray Noah http://raynoah.com/?p=27735 52 Simple Prayers for 2018

Jesus summed up God’s requirements in two straightforward commands: first, I am to love God with my entire being—my spirit, of course, but also my intellect, my emotions, and my body, then second, I am to love my fellow man just as I would love myself. Now it’s not the first command that you and I struggle with—at least not in principle. It’s the second—love for God is one thing, but loving others is what gives us fits. Yet scripture is clear that we cannot truly love God without fully loving people who were made in God’s image. Likewise, when we are loving people selflessly and sacrificially, then we are authenticating our love for God. This is our calling as Christ-followers: to fully love God by fiercely loving people!

“ This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

— 1 JOHN 3:16
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A Simple Prayer To Love Like Jesus Loved:

God, I have declared my love for you countless times, but I have not equally demonstrated the authenticity of that love by sensitively, compassionately and selflessly loving those around me in ways that they would recognize as true love. Forgive my neglect, and help me to allow the kind of love you have for me to be demonstrated toward others. May I be real life proof of your love throughout this day.
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It has been said that the only person whose problems are truly all behind him is a school bus driver. The truth is, everybody “gots” problems—lots of them! There are more than enough worries, anxieties and challenges to go around in this day and age. But that doesn’t mean you have to live life paralyzed by your problems. As Martin Luther said, just because the birds fly over your head doesn’t mean you have to let them build a nest in your hair. Nor do you have allow your problems to constantly weigh you down. God didn’t create you to live that way. So rather than holding onto them, cast them onto God. That’s what the Apostle Peter said. Cast all your cares on him. All of them! Big ones, for sure. And even the little ones. He will take them all, because he cares that much for you!

“ Cast all your cares on him, because he cares for you.

—1 PETER 5:7
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A Simple Prayer To Leave Worries Behind:

God, here they are—all of my problems. They are too big for me. I refuse to stay up late worrying over them one more night. Since you’re up anyway, why don’t you worry about them for me. (Of course, you don’t worry, since you are greater, wiser and stronger than anything that challenges me!) So I give them to you, and in exchange, by faith, I will rest in your care and receive your peace.
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“And they reigned with Christ.” What a future! Ruling and reigning with the One who created the heavens and the earth and all that is contained in them. Eternal life will not be some sort of suspended animation, harp playing by the celestial river, or polishing our golden crowns. I will have purpose…and unending ministry of administrating the rule of the King over his creation. In light of my future, what kind of person should I be now? I ought to purify myself and dedicate all that I am to serving his purposes in my everyday life. I must live as what I am going to be. I am a ruler-in-training in God’s kingdom!

“ I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

— REVELATION 20:4

A Simple Prayer To Live Consistently With My Eternal Destiny:

God, on this this day, purify me, body, heart and mind. May all of my actions be consistent with the future to which I have been called. May every thought and desire be in light of my eternal identity. Fill me afresh with your Holy Spirit, and do a divine work in me that destroys anything that is inconsistent with the future of purpose that is in store for me. Amen!
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The Bible is full of promises, —hundreds, perhaps thousands of them, that God has made to his children. Not all of them have been fulfilled, but none of them have been broken. Nor will they ever be. Every promise in scripture will come true—including God’s promise to send to earth his Son a second time. And that promise could be fulfilled today.

“ Christ will appear a second time, not to bear, sin but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

—HEBREWS 9:28
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A Simple Prayer for End-Time Readiness:

God, make me ready for Christ’s return today. And help me to live each day as if it were my last. Give me a passion for purity, an urgency to share my faith in Jesus, a greater boldness to withstand the pressures of evil, and an unquenchable longing for the return of my Lord and Savior. And yes, on this day, even so, come Lord Jesus.
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