Category Archives: Prayers

Thinking that I deserve Heaven is a sure sign that I have no understanding of the gospel. – Sinclair B. Ferguson

Hebrews 12:28 (ESV) Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.

Who am I to judge anyone? The Lord waits a lifetime before He passes judgement. – Unknown

Father, it is hard not to grumble when things around us are not as we would make them. Help us to put aside our arrogance and to remember you are God and we are not.  Amen.

Philippians 2:14-18 (ESV) Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world.

Your cross is prepared and appointed for you by divine love. And you must cheerfully accept it; you are to take up the cross as your chosen badge and burden, and not to stand complaining. – C. H. Spurgeon

Father, May we never see ourselves as above others. In your eyes we find our place. Open our hearts to accept this.  Amen.

Jude 1b-2 (ESV) To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: May mercy peace, and love be multiplied to you.

Do not turn your back like a coward, but play the man. Follow boldly in your Master’s steps, for He has made this rough journey before you.  Better a brief warfare and eternal rest than false peace and everlasting torment.  … Continue reading →

John 5:43 (NLT) For I have come in my Father’s name, and you have rejected me. Yet if others come in their own name, you gladly welcome them.