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DAILY PRAYERS FOR GUYS

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To Rejoice That You Delight in Me

Heavenly Father,
Sundays are sacred. There are so many blessings in being able to worship together with my church family. And, while Sunday mornings provide multiple ways for me to serve others, I never want to forget that the primary focus is on your service to me as my Savior. 

I don’t ever want to get used to or take for granted that you take delight in me. I am well aware that delight isn’t deserved on my part, but that just makes it all the more incredible! I know the real me – and you know the real me even better – yet you STILL delight in me! How can this be true? Jesus is the answer. In Jesus, through faith in Jesus, because of all that Jesus has carried out and completed on my behalf, you delight in me. May that Bible-backed truth lead me to rejoice in worship this morning, all day long, and throughout the Christmas season and beyond! 

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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To Strengthen My Prayer Life

Loving Father,
I come to you to ask you to strengthen my prayer life. I acknowledge there is room to grow both in the quantity and quality of my prayers. I want to pray more consistently and continually throughout the day. Help me to start by following up with actual prayers when I tell others I will pray for them. Also, guide my prayers to reflect more spiritual wisdom than temporal or material wishes.

You attach so many promises to prayer. Make me confident to test them, so that I might clearly see your hands at work in my life and in the lives of others. Let my time in your Word guide my prayer life, so that what I ask for is in alignment with your will. Thank you for bending your ear to my requests, and for answering my prayers in the best way possible. 

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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For Grace-Filled Speech

Dear Lord,
The gift of speech comes from you. As you demonstrated at the Tower of Babel, you are more than capable of correcting us when we take your gift of speech for granted or use it to defy or oppose you. At Pentecost, you also proved that language barriers and speech itself will not keep your work from being carried out as you determine. 

Speech can be used to destroy and tear down or to defend and built up. Help me to be thoughtful in my speech, pausing first to consider whether my own motives are pure or not. Then, help me discern how my words may be received by others before I open my mouth. Remind me that my comments or responses are not always necessary, and if they aren’t constructive or beneficial, it may be best simply to leave some things unsaid.  Direct me to speak well of others and to speak kindly, and let my words be a blessing to others. Guide my speech so that it is always marked by positivity and grace.

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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For Spiritually Strong Fathers

Perfect Father,
Being a father isn’t easy, but it is one of the most influential roles in determining the development of children. Those without a father figure in their lives struggle in predictable ways as they grow into adulthood. Those with a neglectful, abusive, or otherwise bad father in the picture suffer significant damage as well. 

Raise up spiritually strong fathers to take the lead in raising their sons and daughters. Let them be powerful examples of humble faith in action. Let their children see them thrive in their relationship with you, Father. Through faith-filled fathers, show children what it looks like to be a child of God. Lead fathers to model sacrificial care and compassion for their children through how they treat their wives. Help fathers prioritize spending time with their kids. Let them be lovingly firm in their discipline, taking ownership of training their children in what is right and wrong in accordance with your Word. Use them to model repentance for their children, and to show them grace and forgiveness in abundance, as you have to all fathers. 

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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To Let Go of Control

Mighty Ruler,
Each day is filled with a variety of events. Some of those events are repeated and familiar, while others are new and unexpected. Some of them affect me directly or indirectly, while other events will have little or no effect on me at all. 

And, while I am responsible for my own actions, remind me that I am not ultimately the one in control. When I forget that and imagine that my decisions and actions are the sole predictors of everything that will happen, I am only deceiving myself. When I believe the lie that I am the one in control, I am inclined either to puff up with pride over every beneficial outcome, as if it was my own doing, or get caught up living in an endless loop of regret, imagining all the different scenarios that could have played out if I had just done something differently in that past. 

I am not in control, Lord; you are. Humble me with that reminder so that I can find real peace, not in pretending that I am in charge, but rather in the calm confidence that comes in trusting that you are. You promise to work out all things for my good. Let me rest in that assurance – something that I can actually control. Grant me contentment in managing and controlling how I respond and react to the events around me, and may that always be with patience and grace, so that I reflect you to others. 

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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To Embrace the Gift of Repentance

Faithful Jesus,
Repentance is one of those religious words that has gotten a negative reputation. To some degree, that reputation is understandable, as repentance includes taking a good look at ourselves and owning up to our shortcomings and sin. However, such a reputation may also stem from too many billboard, picket, and sandwich signs that have framed repentance as a term of hate-filled hellfire and brimstone. 

Help me to see repentance for what it truly is, Lord: an invitation to find rest in your work without insisting on my own. My natural way is to pick the path of my own choosing that I think serves me best rather than relying on your rest. But any path I choose on my own only takes me further away from you. 

Your gift of repentance opens my eyes to see the need to turn off my own path and follow you, the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Since sin continually entices me to step off your path, I daily need – and want – to repent and return back to you as often as necessary. I can be confident of the same response on your part every single time I repent: when I return to you, you promise to return to me. In fact by faith, I see that you never turned away from me in the first place, and never will.  

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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For the Word and Those Who Speak It to Me

Sanctifying Spirit,
Your Word is everything. It holds the key to salvation and eternal life. It guides and directs my steps for this life. It shows me how to worship you with my whole life and equips me to love and serve my neighbor. Your Word is priceless!

But as you so often do, you go even further. Not only have you given me your Word, but you also place caring Christians in my life as your messengers to communicate and apply your Word to me. You provide parents to train me to know and love your Word. You give pastors and teachers to preach and teach the Word, helping me understand it. You sprinkle believers out all over the world both to spread the Word and bear witness to it everywhere. You place Christians in the spotlight through prominent platforms that allow them to publicly praise your name. You surround me with Christian friends and my church family who are willing to rebuke and admonish me, or to encourage and uplift me, meeting my spiritual needs through them. Your Word is a treasure – and so are the people you’ve placed in my life to regularly bring it to me. Thank you!

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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For Christ-Centered Worship

Holy Father,
Sundays are sacred. In Christian freedom, we have the flexibility to enjoy many different styles and preferences for worship. The patterns or formats may vary. There are different types of music and many unique instruments on which to play. Worship arts and multimedia can be incorporated to enhance or emphasize certain elements. Preaching and teaching can reflect different approaches to communicating the Word of God. There is much variety in worship and there are many gifts to utilize. Thank you for this freedom!

Let us also use that freedom wisely. Let us appreciate your worship gifts not just as novelties to experiment with or trends to follow, but as resources to support the goal of highlighting the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ our Savior. Worship done well is carried out with an excellence that displays the redemptive words and works of Jesus with beauty and clarity. Bless all Christ-centered worship and refocus all worship that isn’t, so that you, Lord God, might be glorified through your Son, and we might be edified as well.

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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To Lead Others to Their Savior

Saving Lord,
You remind us repeatedly in your Word that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Your gift of salvation and your desire to save are the heart of Scripture and what binds it all together. I rejoice that I am numbered among those you have saved!

But there are many who still do not know of your desire to save or how you went about securing their salvation. How easily I allow this reality to get lost in the busyness of life and buried beneath other priorities!  You have placed many people in my life, and I regularly meet and engage with new people, but their salvation often isn’t even on my radar.

I pray for you to change that. Keep the salvation of others at the forefront of my heart and mind. Don’t allow other things – even good things – to overshadow the most important thing: that as many as possible come to know and believe in you as their Savior. Use all that I am, all the time, resources, and gifts that you have entrusted to me, to lead others to the joy of their salvation. 

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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To Use Me to Provide for Those in Need

Providential Father,
We make Christmas lists for gifts that will undoubtedly spill out in abundance from under so many trees this year. We put much thought into the gifts we are planning to give others. Bless these gift exchanges with genuine generosity on the giving end and appreciative hearts on the receiving end.

Let me also remember the many who are without basic needs. Concern over their lack of necessities overshadows their thoughts of presents and gifts. Open doors for me to personally meet these needs as I am able to. Use my plenty to provide what is lacking for them. Grant me as much satisfaction in being a blessing to those in need as I find in giving gifts to those who are already blessed with so much. As I provide for the needs of others this year, may they come to see me as a conduit of your providential love for them.

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.