One Prayer a Day

A daily prayer blog by Bob Hostetler, the author of The Red Letter Prayer Life and the 31 Ways to Pray for Your Kids iPhone and iPad app. Just one prayer each day. Seldom more. Seldom very long. Sometimes personal. Sometimes original. Always sincere.

Myself

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The pride which leads me to trust in myself and not in you, O Lord, forgive. Amen. (based on a plaque in Coventry Cathedral)

Safe Place

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Not Just

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Not for some promised crown, Nor for your kindness shown; Not for the things you've done, Nor even the victories won; I love you, ...

Process

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God Be In My Head and In My Understanding

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Amazed

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Lord, I'm amazed by you, by the things you do, the way you time things, rhyme things, one with another, to whisper to me that I ...

Actiones Nostras

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We beg You, O Lord, to initiate and anticipate our actions, and help us in them and follow up on them, so that our every service always ...

Prepare a Road

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Omnipotent God, whom through the worship of my heart alone I know, to the wicked unknown, yet known to every devout soul, you are without ...

Thou To Whom I Owe the Gift of This Day's Grace

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O Thou to whom I owe the gift of this day's grace, give to me also, I beseech Thee, the spirit to use it as I ought. Forbid that I shoul...

For Summer

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Abba, thank you for summer, for green grass and honeysuckle, leafy trees running streams bare feet balmy days singing birds laughing...

Committees

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A Prayer of Thanks on Father's Day

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Abba, Father, thank you for being such a good, good father to me: patient, wise, loving, constant, and strong. Thank you for my father...

Praise for Being Always What You Are

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Lord, I praise you for your constancy, for being the same yesterday, today, and forever. I praise your immutability, for being always...

Order All My Doings

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O Holy Spirit of God, abide with me; inspire all my thoughts; pervade my imagination; suggest all my decisions; order all my doings. ...

Heal

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Father, I pray for our current medical system. It seems to require people, often poor and suffering people, to be charged more money th...

Tuning Prayer

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Help

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Lord, save us from haters and baiters and instigators, in Jesus' name, amen.
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To Love Itself

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You who are love itself, give me the grace of love, give me yourself, so that all my days may finally empty into the one day o...
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Thin Place

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O God, make of my heart, and of my marriage, and of my family, and of my home, and of my church, a thin place. Amen. (Based on an ...

Waiting for the Fire

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In full and glad surrender, I give myself to Thee, Thine utterly and only And evermore to be. My all is on the altar, I'm waiting...
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