From the Apple of Your Eye

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Bob Hostetler Abba, one prayer (among others) that I have prayed roughly 365 times in 2006: Keep me as the apple of your eye, and hide me un...

Give Me Yourself

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Bob Hostetler God, give me yourself--nothing less than your salvation, your holiness, your mercy, your kindness, your magnanimity, your love...

My Psalm 42

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Like a deer panting for streams of water, so my soul yearns for you, O God. My soul thirsts for you, my God, living God, Abba Father....

Praise and Petition

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Bob Hostetler To God be glory; to the angels honor; to Satan confusion; to the cross reverence; to the church exaltation; to the departed qu...

A Prayer of Ignatius

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Bob Hostetler Loving God, teach us to be generous Teach us to serve You as You deserve. To give, and not count the cost To fight, and not he...

The Feast of Stephen

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Bob Hostetler Father, on this feast of Stephen, the first martyr of your church, I pray for all those among my brothers and sisters who toda...

Prayer for Christmas

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Bob Hostetler The day of joy returns, Father in Heaven, and crowns another year with peace and good will. Help us rightly to remember th...

A Psalm for December 24

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Bob Hostetler Swing wide, O you gates; be lifted up, you great doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of ...

Nativity Approaches

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Lord Jesus, the day of your nativity approaches, the day on which we commemorate your birth, your condescension, your humble incarnation. Pl...

Prayer for a Grandchild

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Abba, on this child growing inside my dear daughter-in-law, Lord, have mercy. On this child, whom you are forming and fashioning as you form...

Daily Discovery

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Bob Hostetler Give us this day our daily discovery, in Jesus' name, amen. (Prayer often used by Dr. Rendell Harris)

A Poor Pastor's Prayer

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Bob Hostetler A prayer of a pastor, from the George McDonald book, The Curate's Awakening : Yes, master, when you come you shall find A ...

Kingdom Come

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Bob Hostetler Lord, help me to receive your kingdom--daily--as a little child. Help me to trust you explicitly, love you passionately and su...

Prayer Suggested by Mary Oliver

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Bob Hostetler Lord of honeysuckle, Lord of melons; Lord of sweetness, Lord of starfire, Lord of wheatfield, Lord of desert, Lord of plenty, ...

Baruch atah Adonai

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Bob Hostetler Blessed art Thou, O Lord, who didst create the firmament of heaven, the heavens and the heaven of heavens, the heavenly powers...

Sleep and Surrender

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Bob Hostetler Abba, I lie down tonight. As I surrender to sleep, let me surrender to you, wholly, wholly, wholly, Lord God almighty, in Jesu...

My Psalm 41

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Bob Hostetler Bless me, LORD, with regard for the weak, so I may know your deliverance in times of trouble. Protect me, LORD, and pr...

Prayer for Concentration

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Bob Hostetler God help my thoughts! They stray from me, setting off on the wildest journeys. When I am in church, they run off like naughty ...

WOW

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Bob Hostetler Wow, Lord. Wow. You are amazing. You have done marvelous things. You make pathways in the wilderness, and lead your people fro...

Teach Me to Care, and Not to Care

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Bob Hostetler Lord, Adonai, in Eugene Peterson's words, "Teach us to care, teach us to use all these occasions of need that are the...