Daily Thoughts

Daily Inspiration

to

Bless Your Life

A Monday through Friday

Devotional

by 

Beth McLendon

The topic this week -

Prayer

Monday August 21, 2023

 What you

pray

determines what you pursue.

Your prayers are reflections of your heart.

 What kinds of things

are you praying about today?

Are you asking God to help you with your character?

Or are you just asking for more stuff?

Are you asking God to bless your loved ones?

Or are you

only praying for God to bless you?

Consider our page -

Prayers for my Family

Tuesday 

Your prayers

reflect

who you are

and

who you want to be.

Your prayers reflect what you have

- that you value -

and what you want to have.

You can

intentionally

improve

yourself

for the better

with

God's help.

Changing your prayer topics is a great start!

Lord God,

I pray for

more of your love inside me.

I pray for

more of your power in order to obey you.

I pray these things
in Jesus' name,

Amen

Wednesday 

Our prayers

give clues 

to our

spiritual condition

on that day.

We are overcome by evil 

or 
we are overcoming evil.

For help

overcoming things in your life,

consider our

Full Armor of God Prayer for Men

Full Armor of God Prayer for Women

Morning Scriptures

Also

Prayers for Strength

and our

Prayer Proclamations

Thursday 

 What you pray for 

exposes

your heart.

-

How

you pray 

exposes

your depth of

maturity in the Lord.

See the illustration below.

In Luke 18,

Jesus told a story about

Two Men.

 "Two men went up to the temple to pray,

one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself,

‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men —

extortioners, unjust, adulterers,

or even as this tax collector.

¹² I fast twice a week;

I give tithes of all that I possess.’

¹³ And the tax collector,

standing afar off,

would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven,

but beat his breast,

saying,

‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’

¹⁴ I tell you,

this man went down to his house justified

rather than the other;

for everyone who

exalts himself

will be humbled,

and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Luke 18:10-14 NKJV

Friday

Prayer can be used as an opportunity

to develop

our friendship with God.

Prayer for Friendship

Dear Lord,

Thank you that you welcome me into your throne room.

Thank you that you want me to share all my thoughts with you - even my innermost thoughts.

Thank you that you are open to hearing about all my wants, needs, and desires.

Today, Lord,
I want to lay aside my wants, needs, and desires.

Today
I come to focus on friendship with you.

Today
I just want to think of things that I can thank you for.

Amen

Copyright © 2015 Beth McLendon of Inspirational - Prayers.com

Consider our page

Understanding the Trinity

A Final Prayer

of 

Friendship with Jesus

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This was first presented the week of April 20, 2015 and updated in August 2023.