Category: Prayers

Prayer of Contemplation

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Holy Father. You are beyond the simple words that come to my mind. As I sit and reflect on who you are, my heart struggles to process the vast nearness of your presence. As I think about the expanse of the universe and the ever expanding boundaries that humans think they can observe of its outer edges, I am drawn back to the immensity of your presence. I have no perspective to help me understand the reach of the stars in space, and it causes me to realize that I have no perspective to know the magnitude of your presence. What is the universe in your presence? It is but a grain of sand compared to the infinite. All we can see and observe is but a miniscule speck in the true reality of the Creator.

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Prayer for Change

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What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water, who travels in company with evildoers and walks with wicked men? For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.’

Job 34:7–9 (ESV)

Holy Father. My ways are not unknown to you and my path is prepared before me in your wisdom, mercy, and grace. Your steadfast loving kindness goes before me and abundant mercy follows me. You are the One who has created all things, and you are the One who sustains all things. There is nothing in all the universe that is outside your sovereign will. You uphold and sustain all things. The very atoms of creation would fly apart without your compassionate care. It is You alone that gives life and breath to all things. It is you alone that brings order from chaos.

Yet, in my life I am continually pushing back on these very truths. My mind determines that I know what is good and right all the time, when I am actually self-centered and self-righteous. My heart yearns to give and receive love, but taints this desire with only seeking my own self-interests in the process. My soul longs to be in fellowship and communion, yet it seeks to isolate and separate from everyone.

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Fill My Heart

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Heavenly Father,

Thank you for yet another day to live life wrapped in the warm embrace of your love, mercy, and grace. I am thankful for your continued mercies in my life as you lead me along this path through the world. I know that I am often ungrateful and prone to believing the lies of the world and the self-deceptions of my own heart. You have been faithful and steadfast in your love for me. Your loving kindness has brought me through the fiery trials and the treacherous storms. Through them all, you have proved yourself to me over and over.

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