Prayer Collection
I love to collect prayers I've prayed as well as favorites from books, online, other believers, and especially from within the Bible. The book of Psalms is a great source of prayers!
Morning Prayer
Grateful am I before You, eternal King of the Universe, for saving my soul and giving me another day to spend with my loves ones walking beside You. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit today, Lord. Transform my mind and tender my heart for what You love. Anoint my eyes and ears to see what You are doing and to hear Your voice. Guard my lips to keep from speaking anything not of You or in love. Walk beside me, Abba, and be the light for my path. For I trust in Your unfailing love each morning. Amen.
Bedtime Prayer
Thank You for this day, Abba. Thank You for the blessings You have given me and for another day to spend among my loved ones. Watch over me as I sleep, speak to me in my dreams. For in peace I lie down and sleep; for You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety. Amen
Healing & Comfort
Almighty LORD, Jehovah Rapha, our Great Physician and Creator. You alone can bring true healing from every ailment - physical, mental, emotional, spiritual. Bend Your ear to hear my prayers for healing and comfort for my family and friends who are ill or hurting. Wrap them in the comforting warmth and peace of Your holy Presence. Bring them comfort through Your Spirit and friends and family, drawing Your people around them to be Your arms in their times of distress.
Guidance
Wise Counselor - I ask for Your wisdom and guidance. You alone know what we need most and which paths before us lead to life. Soften my heart to feel the presence of Your Spirit, draw me closer to You through Your Word and guide me with Your divine wisdom, being the light to my path.
Deliverance
Jehovah Mephalti, our Deliverer! I ask for Your deliverance for myself and my loved ones from the wreckage and bondage of our circumstances and toward a new path of life with You. Help us to break the strongholds of our sin, LORD, and bring us into alignment with our true purposes. Pull the blinders from our eyes so that we can see truth and Your light LORD. Open our eyes to the truth that is YOU, Abba!
Protection
Great Protector, Jehovah Nissi - You created each of us and all of the universe and You alone can bring rain to parched lands, hold back the floods and put out the fires in our lives. I humbly ask for Your protection for myself and my loved ones. Cover us with Your protective wings and guard our comings and goings.
Provision
Jehovah Jireh, our Provider - I pray for Your provision for my friends and family. Bring each of them the resources they truly need in such a way that brings glory to You. Show them Your wisdom in how to use those resources and draw them closer to You as You answer our prayers in accordance with Your will and plan for our lives.
Stand in the Gap Prayer (Salvation for loved ones)
Mighty Savior - bless my family members and friends who don't know You or who have walked away from You. Bless them today in a way that can ONLY have come from YOU. Remove the blinders from their eyes so that they may see the truth and recognize their purpose. Abba, bring people into their paths today who talk about and exemplify Jesus - at work, school, home, online, in the store... anywhere. Surround them with Your people and Your love.
Giving Thanks
I praise You, God, Elohim Shama, who bends His ear and hears my prayers. Thank You for hearing my cries and petitions. Thank You for Your faithfulness. I praise You, Lord, for Your unfailing love, infinite wisdom and eternal provision.
Matthew 6:9-13
This, then, is how you should pray:
“‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.
Ephesians 3:16
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Numbers 6:24-28 (Priestly Blessing)
The Lord bless you
and keep you;
the Lord make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace.
1 Chronicles 29:10-13 (David's Prayer)
Praise be to you, Lord,
the God of our father Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting.
Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power
and the glory and the majesty and the splendor,
for everything in heaven and earth is yours.
Yours, Lord, is the kingdom;
you are exalted as head over all.
Wealth and honor come from you;
you are the ruler of all things.
In your hands are strength and power
to exalt and give strength to all.
Now, our God, we give you thanks,
and praise your glorious name.
Psalm 6 (deliverance)
Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger
or discipline me in your wrath.
Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am faint;
heal me, Lord, for my bones are in agony.
My soul is in deep anguish.
How long, Lord, how long?
Turn, Lord, and deliver me;
save me because of your unfailing love.
Among the dead no one proclaims your name.
Who praises you from the grave?
I am worn out from my groaning.
All night long I flood my bed with weeping
and drench my couch with tears.
My eyes grow weak with sorrow;
they fail because of all my foes.
Away from me, all you who do evil,
for the Lord has heard my weeping.
The Lord has heard my cry for mercy;
the Lord accepts my prayer.
All my enemies will be overwhelmed with shame
and anguish; they will turn back and suddenly be
put to shame.
Psalm 8 (praise)
Lord, our Lord, how majestic
is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory in the heavens.
Through the praise of children and infants you
have established a stronghold against your
enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.
When I consider your heavens, the work of your
fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have
set in place, what is mankind that you are
mindful of them, human beings that you care for
them?
You have made them a little lower than the angels
and crowned them with glory and honor.
You made them rulers over the works of your
hands; you put everything under their feet; all
flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,
the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all
that swim the paths of the seas.
Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all
the earth!
Psalm 13 (relief)
How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
How long must I wrestle with my thoughts
and day after day have sorrow in my heart?
How long will my enemy triumph over me?
Look on me and answer, Lord my God.
Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,
and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”
and my foes will rejoice when I fall.
But I trust in your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in your salvation.
I will sing the Lord’s praise,
for he has been good to me.
Psalm 23
The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
for his name’s sake.
Even though I walk through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil, for you are with me;
your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
Surely your goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the
house of the Lord forever.
Psalm 121 (help)
I lift up my eyes to the mountains -
where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
He will not let your foot slip -
he who watches over you will not slumber;
indeed, he who watches over Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
The Lord watches over you -
the Lord is your shade at your right hand;
the sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.
The Lord will keep you from all harm -
he will watch over your life;
the Lord will watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore.
Psalm 51 - Repentance
Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.
Wash away all my iniquity
and cleanse me from my sin.
For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is always before me.
Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight;
so you are right in your verdict
and justified when you judge.
Surely I was sinful at birth,
sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb;
you taught me wisdom in that secret place.
Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
Hide your face from my sins
and blot out all my iniquity.
Create in me a pure heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not cast me from your presence
or take your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation
and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
so that sinners will turn back to you.
Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,
you who are God my Savior,
and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.
Open my lips, Lord,
and my mouth will declare your praise.
You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it;
you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.
My sacrifice, O God, is[b] a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart
you, God, will not despise.
May it please you to prosper Zion,
to build up the walls of Jerusalem.
Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous,
in burnt offerings offered whole;
then bulls will be offered on your altar.