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God, I’m Stepping Out In Faith To Honor You

52 Simple Prayers for 2018

If my life is now hidden with Christ in God, as Colossians 3:3 tells me, then that means God is already out in front of me, he is above me lovingly watching my every move, he is behind me, guarding my back, and he is underneath me, ready to catch me if I fall. Why would I not then step out in faith to risk great things for him? Why wouldn’t I honor him with that kind of trust in his watchful care over all my ways? There is no reason not to, so I think I will!

A Simple Prayer To Step Out In Faith:

God, give me a willing heart and a bold determination to step out in faith like never before. Help me to truly believe that since you are for me, none can stand against me. Infuse me with Holy Spirit courage to expect great things from you and attempt great things for you. With your help, today I will offer you risky trust, and let you do the rest.
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God, May My Spouse See You Through Me

52 Simple Prayers for 2018

What would happen in our marriage relationships—in all of our relationships, for that matter—if the primary motive was to introduce our significant other to Christ? I am not talking about badgering a spouse into the kingdom through a non-stop, hard sell verbal witness. I’m talking about offering them the real Jesus. I’m talking about showing them what authentic salvation is all about. I’m talking about living every dimension of your life in such a way that Jesus shines through. That’s really what Christians are meant to do, after all. We are to make the Savior attractive to those who are far from him by the way we live—how we respond, how we serve, how we give, how we navigate disappointment, how we suffer, how we freely forgive, how we love proactively and how we extend grace unconditionally. Who wouldn’t be attracted to Christ when we are living that kind of winsome witness.

A Simple Prayer for a Winsome Marriage:

God, my prayer today is simple: Help me to so live that my spouse sees you in the way I live. When I speak, in my body language, in my actions, in my attitude, help me to be the Gospel in the real world of my everyday marriage.
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God, Make Sense of My Senseless Prayers

52 Simple Prayers for 2018

Do you ever feel inadequate to come before a holy God in prayer? Have you witnessed prayer warriors interceding with such ease that it intimidates you because you could certainly never pray like that? Do you ever run out of words when you pray? When it comes to prayer, do you feel as Ringo Star once sang, “it don’t come easy.” Guess what! That’s okay! When I don’t know how to pray or what to pray or feel so incredibly inadequate to pray, the Holy Spirit dwelling within me does the praying for me. He takes my inarticulate, jumbled thoughts and raises them to the Father above, making perfect sense of the things that are running through my mind and burdening my heart. My prayers don’t have to be smooth, they don’t have to have perfect grammatical structure, they don’t even have to make sense. They just need to come from a heart that is crying out for the Father’s best in my life, and the indwelling Spirit does the rest.

A Simple Prayer to Pray Powerfully:

God, through the indwelling presence of your Holy Spirit, take my inarticulate thoughts, my unclear mind, my annoying insecurities about being good enough in prayer, perfect them and bring them near to your heart. Turn my feeble efforts to pray into mountain moving prayers. As I offer what’s in my heart to you, I will thank you in advance for turning them into that which glorifies you.
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God, Be The Focus Of My Thoughts

52 Simple Prayers for 2018

Psychiatrist William Glasser discovered in his study of how the brain works that we aren’t controlled by external factors, but by internal desires. Furthermore, our desires are predetermined by our thinking. In other words, the mind is the command center determining conduct. Therefore the critical issue is how we think. That’s why Proverbs 4:23 says, “Above all else, guard your heart (the heart in Hebrew thought was the center of thinking) for it is the wellspring of life.”

A Simple Prayer for a Singular Focus:

God, throughout the day I will think about you. I will focus my thoughts on that which is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, excellent and praiseworthy. I will think rightly. I will let the mind of the Master be the master of my mind. Now I pray that you will transform my character by changing the way I think, and make me an offering that is holy, pleasing and acceptable to you inside and out.
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God, Thanks for Saving Me

52 Simple Prayers for 2018

Religion is complex; Christianity is simple. Religion is about what you have to do; Christianity is about what God has done! Religion requires you to sacrifice to appease your god; Christianity required God to sacrifice his Son to appease himself. In religion, you pay; in Christianity, Jesus paid it all. Religious faith is about works; Christian faith is about belief. Religion leads to death; Christianity leads to life. Need I say more?

A Simple Prayer of Eternal Gratitude:

God, thank you for your mercy—you didn’t give me what I deserved. Thank you for your grace—you gave me what I didn’t deserve. You didn’t give me hell; you gave me heaven. Thank you for making it easy for me by making it hard on Jesus. Thank you for Christianity, thank you for Jesus, thank you for you! I will be forever grateful.
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God, Chalk One Up in the Kingdom Win Column Through Me

52 Simple Prayers for 2018

Victorious Christianity isn’t rocket science, is it! It’s actually quite simple: Trust in God + Passionate Supplication = Answered Prayer. Answered Prayer x Answered Prayer = The Victorious Christian Life. When we so order our lives to do the will of God, we have every right—in fact, we have an invitation from God himself—to come before him in bold, expectant prayer, and his promise is to answer us when we call on him. When you string a bunch of those experiences together, you have the makings of an inspiring witness of a life surrendered to and used by God. That’s the kind of life I want to live. How about you?

A Simple Prayer for a Victorious Life:

God, enlarge my capacity to trust, because you answer the prayers of those who honor you with complete confidence. Then, because I have ruthlessly relied on you and because you have powerfully provided for me, may this day be one that can be chalked up in the win column for your kingdom.
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God, Help Me to Get Off My Spiritual Duff

52 Simple Prayers for 2018

The writer of Proverbs used some pretty strong language in describing a lazy person. In the various Bible translations, he pictures a lazy-bones as someone who commits vandalism (The Message), a troublemaker (Contemporary English Version), one who commits suicide (Amplified), a destructive personality (Good News), and a great waster (21st Century King James). He is not simply someone who has a little issue with diligence, he’s got a major league problem with Creator God! The Bible says he is as bad as someone who destroys something valuable—perhaps because he is destroying the opportunities that God has placed before him to steward his talents, to produce beauty, to add value to this world, and to leverage his one and only life into something that glorifies the Creator.

A Simple Prayer for Getting Off My Spiritual Duff:

God, help me today to do everything in my power to take advantage of everything you’ve done in your power to make me a fully empowered child of the King!