A prayer for a grieving friend, the Hebrew behind Psalm 34:18, and what Jesus asked of his own friends in Gethsemane: not to fix it, but to stay.
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Prayer for My Husband Going Through a Hard Time: Two Kinds of Burden
A prayer for my husband going through a hard time, and the two Greek words for burden in Galatians 6: the weight a wife can share, and the load only he can carry.
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Thanksgiving Prayer: How Short Is a Grace Allowed to Be?
A Thanksgiving prayer can be one sentence. Jesus’s shortest recorded thank-you prayer is nine words, and the Bible’s thank offering was eaten the same day.
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Prayer for My Son’s Protection: Where You Can’t Follow Him
A prayer for my son’s protection, and the word Psalm 121 repeats six times: shamar, to keep watch. The same word Cain refused, and the guard Philippians posts on a parent’s own heart.
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Prayer for a High-Risk Pregnancy: When You’re Told to Rest and Wait
A prayer for a high-risk pregnancy, and the frightening pregnancy Genesis records in plain words: Rebekah, twenty years of waiting, and the question she took straight to God.
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Did Elijah Have Depression? What God Did First
Did Elijah have depression? He asked God to end his life in 1 Kings 19. God’s first answer was not a sermon. It was a meal, sleep, and then a second meal.
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Prayer Before a Diagnosis: The Morning You Go In to Be Told
A prayer before a diagnosis, and the setting of Psalm 56:3 — a psalm whose own heading places it at Gath, after David had already been seized there.
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How to Repent in Prayer: Psalm 51 Asks More Than It Apologizes
How to repent in prayer when you run out of words: Psalm 51 names the sin in three verses and spends eleven asking God for things – including joy back.
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Prayer Candle Color Meaning: It’s a Calendar, Not a Code
What prayer candle colors actually mean in Christian worship: a calendar, not a code. Where the colors came from, why the rules are about cloth not wax, and the one place the Bible puts a color on a person.
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A Prayer for Grief: The Psalm That Never Gets Better
A prayer for grief, and the one psalm in the Bible that ends in the dark with no turn to praise. Why God kept it, and what it frees you to pray tonight.