Daily prayers for Christian living and personal growth
1. For all my sins
Throughout this life:
Father, please forgive me.
2. In all the suffering
I bear:
Father God, please heal me.
3. When I must leave
This world behind:
Father, please redeem me.
4. And when I stand
Before you, Lord:
Be merciful, and crown me.
Reference
He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases. He redeems me from death and crowns me with love and tender mercies (Psalm 103:3-4; NLT).
May your kingdom come soon (Luke 11:2; NLT).
Lord,
1. Forgive and heal
My sinful life –
2. All my resentment,
Pain, and inner strife.
3. Help me to live at peace
With everyone,
4. For then, at last, I’ll see
Your Kingdom come.
References
1. He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases (Psalm 103:3; NLT).
2. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows (John 16:33; NLT).
3. Do all that you can to live in peace with everyone (Romans 12:18; NLT).
4. I tell you the truth, some standing here right now will not die before they see the Kingdom of God (Luke 9:27; NLT).
The Kingdom of God is within you (Luke 17:21; NKJV).
1. Father,
Drive out all our fears,
Draw every heart to you,
And fill us with your perfect love
So we will be made new.
2. Father,
Heal our faithlessness,
Forgiving every sin,
And clothe us all in perfect love
For you, our heavenly King.
3. Father,
Bind our souls together
Till we live as one,
Then we will dwell in perfect love,
Becoming like your Son.
References
1. Perfect love drives out fear (1 John 4:18; NIV).
We know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love (Romans 5:5; NLT).
Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him (Colossians 3:10; NLT).
2. The Lord says, “Then I will heal you of your faithlessness; my love will know no bounds (Hosea 14:4; NLT).
He forgives all my sins (Psalm 103:3; NLT).
Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony (Colossians 3:14; NLT).
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength (Mark 12:29; NLT).
3. I want them to be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love (Colossians 2:2; NLT).
I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one (John 17:22; NLT).
Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them (1 John 4:16).
The Lord – who is the Spirit – makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image (2 Corinthians 3:18; NLT).
God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life
(John 3:16; NLT).
1. Jesus is the Word of God,
His much-loved, only Son,
Who comes to live with us on earth
And make all people one.
2. Jesus is the bread of God,
Who comes to feed each soul,
To heal in body, heart and mind
So we can be made whole.
3. Jesus is the Lamb of God,
Who comes to pay the price
For all our sins and weaknesses:
A perfect sacrifice.
4. Jesus is the Love of God,
His unveiled, human face,
Who comes to live within us all,
For Jesus is God’s grace.
References
1. He wore a robe dipped in blood and his title was the Word of God (Revelation 19:13; NLT).
This is my dearly loved Son (Mark 9:7; NLT).
I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one (John 17:22; NLT).
2. The true bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world (John 6:33; NLT).
He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5; RSV).
3. John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world!” (John 1:29; NLT).
By the power of the eternal Spirit, Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins (Hebrews 9:14; NLT).
4. Nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:39; NLT).
God, who said, “Let there be light in the darkness,” has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 4:6; NLT).
Then the veil of the temple was torn from top to bottom (Mark 15:38; NKJV).
When the Roman officer who stood facing him saw how he had died, he exclaimed, “This man truly was the Son of God!” (Mark 15:39; NLT).
Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us (Colossians 3:11; NLT).
God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that was his plan from before the beginning of time – to show us his grace through Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 1:9; NLT).
1. Help me lean towards you, Lord,
Closer to your thoughts,
So I may glimpse the wisdom
Of your mind.
2. Help me grow towards you, Lord,
Closer to your heart,
So I may share your love
For humankind.
3. Help me move towards you, Lord,
Closer to your soul,
So I may leave
My sinful self behind.
4. Help me run towards you, Lord,
So we may reunite,
For you have promised:
Seek, and you will find.
References
1. Come closer and listen to the words of the Lord your God (Joshua 3:9; CSB).
2. God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16; NLT).
3. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you (James 4:8; CSB).
Get rid of your sins, and leave all iniquity behind you (Job 11:14; NLT).
4. Let us run with endurance the race God has set before us (Hebrews 12:1; NLT).
If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me. I will be found by you (Jeremiah 29:13-14; NLT).
Seek and you will find (Matthew 7:7; NIV).
You are the temple of the living God
(Luke 17:21; NKJV).
1. We look for you
In heaven above,
And on the earth below.
2. We seek you, Lord,
In all we meet,
Including every foe.
3. We search for you
In life and death,
In love, and even sin.
4. We seek you, Lord,
Beyond ourselves,
But find you deep within.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you (Matthew 7:7; NIV).
1. All I need to do, Lord,
Is to seek you.
2. All I need to do
Is ask the way.
3. All I need to do, Lord,
Is to knock on my soul’s door,
4. Until you throw it open,
Every day.
5. For you are waiting there, Lord,
Always present,
6. Just to hear me say:
Forgive my sin.
7. Then we reunite, Lord,
As one spirit,
8. And dwell in love together,
Deep within.
References
1. Keep on seeking, and you will find (Matthew 7:7; NLT).
If you seek him, you will find him (1 Chronicles 28:9; NLT).
2. Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for (Matthew 7:7; NLT).
Ask for the old, godly way, and walk in it (Jeremiah 6:16; NLT).
3. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you (Matthew 7:7; NLT).
4. Never stop praying (1 Thessalonians 5:16; NLT).
5. The Lord must wait for you to come to him so he can show you his love and compassion (Isaiah 30:18; NLT).
6. Forgive us our sins as we have forgiven those who sin against us (Matthew 6:12; NLT).
7. I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one (John 17:22; NLT).
8. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them (1 John 4:16).
