Month: July 2025

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For Freedoms in Country and in Christ

Sacrificial Savior,
On the Fourth of July in the USA, freedom is on our minds. When things like protesting and boycotting are so commonplace, it can be easy for us to forget that so many in the world don’t even have those freedoms. We are able to come and go and design our days and calendars in just about any way we wish because of our freedom. Thank you, Lord – may we never take such freedoms for granted, and always be grateful for the sacrifices made throughout our nation’s history to establish and maintain freedom. 

Yet, as blessed as we are to have the freedoms we do as citizens, your blessings abound even more in light of the freedom we have as Christians. In Christ, we have freedom from the accusations of Satan, from slavery to sin, and from the fear of death. These are by far our greatest freedoms! 

Nevertheless, help us take full advantage of both blessings, using the freedom in country that we have to also express our freedom in Christ. Keep us from allowing our freedom in Christ to turn into freedom from Christ. Our freedom in Christ means we can love and live and breathe Jesus in everything we do. Thank you!

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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To Listen First and Listen Well

Gracious Father,
You promise us that you hear (and answer!) every prayer offered through faith in the name of Jesus. This assurance means so much to us in a world with so much noise! That you, the Creator of and Ruler over all things, take the time to listen to the countless prayers of your people, both defies our comprehension and delivers us comfort.

Open my heart and my ears to listen to others as you do. We are quick to speak words and share opinions, but ought to be slow to speak and quick to listen instead. It starts with valuing other people and what they have to say. Forgive me for the times I’ve thought so little of others that I didn’t feel they were worth listening to. Just as I appreciate being heard, so also help me to be willing to bend my ear for others. And when I am listening, let me also be aware of my body language, so that I am not conveying disinterest or distraction to others while they speak. In a world of talkers-first, let me be a listener-first.

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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For a Right Relationship with Food

Dear Lord,
Food is not just a necessity for our bodies, but a gift you give for us to enjoy. Thank you for the variety of flavors, tastes, and textures we find in our food. Thank you for spices and seasonings and different styles of food preparation. You frequently use banquets and food in Scripture to paint so many spiritual pictures for us, all of which help us delight in your promises all the more.

However, we sometimes struggle in our relationship with food. Even though eating disorders may be more frequently associated with women, guys are not immune to them. Keep us from a relationship with food that goes to any extreme. It isn’t merely fuel, but eating can be an experience to be enjoyed. Neither is food merely for pleasure or an escape when we overindulge, but it is nourishment for our bodies. Food itself is neither moral nor amoral; it is rather our relationship with it that determines how we manage it as a blessing. Let us not be ruled or enslaved by it, but always be in control, and see our diet and eating habits as yet another way to honor you as we care for our bodies. 

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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For a Deeper Commitment to You

Committed Savior,
When I consider the level of determination and commitment you demonstrated in carrying out my salvation, not only am I stunned and amazed, but it also causes gratitude to well up inside me. I simply will never be able to grasp the measure of your undeserved love, that you should go to such great lengths for me!

Reflecting on your commitment to me also has another positive effect: it drives me to want to increase my commitment to you in return. Help me to do exactly what you encourage in your Word as I run my race and throw off everything that hinders and entangles me. Those things don’t just slow me down – they are also vying for my focus and attention. Such distractions then also end up watering down my commitment to you, because I am spread too thin with all my concerns. Grant me singular focus, so that my commitment to you diminishes other distractions, and I follow in your footsteps more closely in all areas of my life.

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.