Prayer of My Heart

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Jesus, thou art everything to me, Jesus, thou art everything to me, All my lasting joys are found in thee, Jesus, thou art everything to me.

Little to Offer

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Bob Hostetler I have nothing to offer, Lord; I have little left to give. But I can get up again tomorrow morning. I can put one foot in fron...

A Prayer of Thomas a Kempis

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Bob Hostetler Lord, make possible for me by grace what is impossible to me by nature. You know that I am not able to endure very much, and t...

Always Near

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Bob Hostetler As the dawn mists over the horizon and the sun closes its evening shade, it's with such certainty I know You are always ne...

Prayer of W. H. Aitken

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Bob Hostetler Lord, take my lips and speak through them; take my mind and think through it; take my heart and set it on fire. Amen.

Shine Your Light

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Bob Hostetler Lord, shine your light into my confusion. Please show me what I need to see. Save me from suspicion or misunderstanding, and l...

My Psalm 43

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Bob Hostetler Stick up for me, O God, and be my hero, my defender, from deceitful, or unjust, or ignorant people. You are my safe place, the...

I Fast

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Bob Hostetler Lord, I fast. I fast to submit my will to yours. I fast to tell you I acknowledge your primacy, your preeminence. I fast to de...

My Weather-Beaten Soul

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Bob Hostetler Bless, O God, bless my weather-beaten soul. (Prayer of an old man, West Indies)

Seek You

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Bob Hostetler God, you are my God, and I seek you this morning; let my prayers rise before you like the morning sacrifice. Please grant that...

Willing to Be Made Willing

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Bob Hostetler Lord God, I confess that I am not often willing to make you my all, to seek you first... but I am willing to be made willing. ...

In this New Year, 2007

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Lord God Adonai, in this new year, 2007, I pray, give me grace to experience more of you, to learn your ways, to drink more deeply of your p...
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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 ...