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For Those Who Are Weak in Their Faith

Patient Father,
Send an extra measure of your Spirit to all who are spiritually weak. Provide whatever is lacking to strengthen their faith. Regardless of the cause of weak faith, your Word is always the solution. Where faith is weak as a result of sheer neglect of your Word, bless the weak with fellow believers who are persistent in their encouragement to prioritize the Word. Where one’s faith is weak because it has been battered by trial and testing, grant them relief and redirect their focus away from their struggle and toward their Savior. When temptation is the culprit, either preying on weakened faith or causing it, keep your promise and provide a clear way out, not allowing the temptation to exceed what one can bear. Wherever souls and eternities are at stake, Lord, intervene and come to the aid of the weary and weak, and use me whenever possible on that rescue mission. 

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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For Those Living in Fear

Faithful Father,
So many people live in fear. Some may deny it or try to hide it, while others are more open about it. The sources of their fear vary widely. Financial fear of being let go at work and/or falling behind on bills and piling up debt. Physical fear of sickness, injury, or death. Fear of being found out as a fraud or a fake in some area of life. The fear of not being good enough. Fear of letting others who are depending on you down. Fear of the government. We face so many fears that we have specific names for them all!

Yet repeatedly throughout your Word, you implore us not to be afraid – and with good reason! You promise us your peace in the place of any trouble we could possibly ever face. Our hearts need not be troubled, for you have overcome the world. Whatever fear we face – it will pass. Even a worst-case scenario as long as you are by our side is manageable. For those who do not know you, lead them to you so that they can experience a life free from fear. For those who know and believe in you, yet are still crippled by fear, draw them closer to you and to your promises so that you can fill them with the faith needed to deflate their fears.

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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To Anchor My Hope in You

God of Hope,
We have such high hopes for so much in our lives, from the little things to the big. We hope this small daily habit will yield a certain result at some point down the road. I hope this career change will be the move I need to get my life on the right track. I hope to find the person of my dreams who will make the rest of our life together amazing and wonderful.

While it isn’t wrong or foolish to have such hopes, placing the full weight of my life expectations on them is. There are so many factors beyond my control that can determine the final outcome of such hopes. Some may play out as I had hoped, but many will not.

But hope anchored in the Lord and in his assurance that he is able to work good out of any situation in my life will never disappoint. That kind of hope is a sure thing, because the Lord’s promises are a sure thing. Hope in the Lord renews my strength, provides patience, and frees me from the deception of being in control. Hope in the Lord leaves me at peace knowing that I don’t have to bear the unnecessary burden of pretending to be God, because he is. 

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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To Hold On to My Faith

Almighty Father,
You warn us repeatedly of the dangers of trouble, trial, and temptation. When these arise in my life, they can put my faith to the test, seeking to challenge it or choke it out. The evil one will use whatever means he can to drive a wedge between my Savior and me. If he can succeed in separating us during this life, then he will achieve his goal of stripping me of my eternal life.

Hold me fast. Send me an extra measure of your Spirit whenever I face spiritual adversity, to strengthen my grip on your powerful promises. Do the same for struggling Christians everywhere, so that your grace causes them to grab on to their faith more firmly and not let go. Extend the loving and supportive arms of fellow believers to embrace and hold up brothers and sisters in the faith when the enemy’s fighting is fierce. Hold my hand forever, so that even when I loosen my hold in my moments of weakness, I know you’ll always have me.

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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To Avoid Allowing Doubt to Linger

Faith-sustaining Spirit,
We all deal with doubt, and not all doubt is necessarily bad. In scenarios that involve uncertainty, doubts cause us to pause and consider the possible risks and dangerous outcomes of our actions. Those kinds of doubts can keep us from making a poor decision. 

But doubt can also cripple us, causing us to freeze up with fear and fail to move forward. Too much doubt can stifle progress and limit us in life. Doubt, especially long-term, long-held doubt, can damage our relationship with Jesus and slowly allow our faith to erode. 

But we have something to counter and crush that doubt: the Resurrection! There is no doubt about it, and because he lives, whenever doubts arise, we can confidently address them and let you dispel them through the power of your Word. Take any of my doubts about you or your promises and transform them into an immovable trust, anchored in the certainty of the Resurrection.

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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For the Conversion of Others

Dear Redeemer,
I am grateful for the many believers you have placed in my life to support and encourage me in my faith. But not everyone in my circles believes, and I boldly ask for you to change that. Whether it is through my relationship with them and my efforts to lead them to faith in you, or by any other means, I humbly ask that you lead them to know and believe in you as their Savior. Let your law convince them of the inescapable reality of their sin, the undeniable truth that they can never attain the perfection you require of them, and the conclusion that they can do nothing to save themselves. 

Then, reach into their despair and hopelessness with the good news of your gospel. Show them that you alone are the Way, the Truth, and the Life, that no one is saved apart from you, but that all can be saved through faith in you. Open the eyes of their heart to see your perfection as theirs, and your payment for their sin as complete. Grant them the joy of salvation and the hope of eternal life. 

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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To Love and Listen to Your Teaching

Patient Teacher,
While the Bible doesn’t reveal with certainty the details of your day on this day, Wednesday of Holy Week, we do know that yesterday, on Tuesday of Holy Week, you enlightened and taught others. When challenged by religious leaders, you seized the opportunity to correct and instruct. When you used parables to teach, you both convicted those who rejected you and comforted those who follow you in faith. 

Like Mary, busy Martha’s sister, lead me to spend more time at your feet, listening to your instruction and guidance in your Word. So often I allow myself to be too busy to learn from you and be blessed by your words. But your Word is life! Not only does the instruction from your Word provide the direction and wisdom I need for this life, but it also feeds my faith for eternal life. May a steady diet of law and gospel continue to sustain and sanctify me daily as you teach me through your Word. 

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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For Christian Schools

Lord God,
Thank you for schools that provide a Christian Education. When congregations are able to offer elementary schools as a part of their ministry, both the congregation and the community are richly blessed. The standards are high and the flexibility of curriculum choices allows them to avoid certain controversial content. However, there is no greater benefit than Jesus that Christian schools are able to offer. To nurture and equip not just the mind, but also hearts of faith provides an eternal reward to students. For high schools and colleges that allow students to continue on this path of spiritual instruction, thank you. 

Through these schools, your impact often goes beyond the student into the home, so I pray that your Spirit stretches his reach into the hearts of not just students in school, but their families as well. And, because teaching young minds is no small task, I also ask that you equip teachers and professors in these schools with patience, wisdom, and compassion for their students. Let your light shine brightly in them, so that they put the love of Jesus on display for their students and other faculty members to see. Continue to use Christian schools to build up your church and equip believers for this life and the next.

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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To Mature in My Faith

Dedicated Savior,
Your grace is not just what brought me to faith, but also what keeps me in the faith and grows my faith. But I so easily take it all for granted. I let other preoccupations become priorities. I get busy doing things that seem urgent and important right now, but have no bearing on my spiritual health or my eternity. 

In your gracious forgiveness, both wash me and work in me to desire more of the things you desire for me. If I am to be a godly man of faith, direct me to your Word so that through it, you can create in me a hunger for spiritual growth that seeks to be satisfied by time spent with you. Let your Word dwell in me richly each day, develop a disciplined prayer life in me, and deepen my drive to engage with and commit to my church family and community. Make these requests a reality, so that through them you may grow me into the mature man of God you created me to be.

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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To Focus on What Builds My Faith

Dear Jesus,
I know the acts of faith that are important for strengthening my faith: reading and studying your Word, gathering regularly for worship and the Lord’s Supper, spending time in prayer, etc. Nevertheless, even though I know how important these are, they also require a measure of commitment and sacrifice. To prioritize these spiritual disciplines means having to say no to other things in life that I enjoy and appreciate, so sometimes I convince myself that they are too inconvenient or too much for me.

But what I don’t realize at the time, is that avoiding them in the short term because of a perceived inconvenience always results in more pain in the long term. Then, during the times when my life seems to be going off the rails, when things are falling apart, or when trials arise, I can often look back and see that I have been neglecting those faith-building disciplines in my life.

Why do I always think I know better than you??? Forgive me for distancing myself from you, and draw me back to you through your Word. Guard me from ever believing the lie that time spent in your Word, in worship, in prayer, etc. is ever inconvenient or wasted time and instead use them to fortify my trust in you more and more. 

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.