TOPICS
Prayer
Do You Forget to Thank God When You Pray?
I’m quick to take my needs to Christ in prayer but almost as equally quick to forget to thank him for the blessings in my life. Here’s why our hearts should overflow with thanksgiving any time we bow our heads in prayer.
Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about God’s Providence
The providence of God reveals his infinite wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy. Nothing can thwart his plan. Here is a prayer to help you meditate upon God’s providence.
Lord’s Days 45-52: 10 Q&As from the Heidelberg Catechism Every Christian Should Know
What belongs to a prayer that pleases God and is heard by him? Find out in our final installment of 10 Q&As from the beloved Heidelberg Catechism, used by more than one million Christians globally!
Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about God’s Creation
God made the earth by his power, established the world by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his understanding (Jer. 10:12). Here is a prayer to help you meditate upon God’s creation.
A Psalm for Restful Sleep
The busier life gets, the more tired we are, and yet the harder it is to get good rest! In Psalm 127 we find much needed wisdom for getting a good night’s sleep.
Why Do Christians Pray, “And Lead Us Not into Temptation, But Deliver Us from Evil”?
“Has God really commanded that?” We are constantly and fiercely tempted to break God’s commands in the same way that Adam and Eve were. We are like bunnies in the jaws of the lion, in desperate need of God’s deliverance.
Why Do Christians Pray, “Forgive Us Our Debts”?
The sinful woman in Luke 7:37-50 crumpled herself before the Lord, against whom she had ultimately rebelled. We see her love for Jesus welling up from her deepest soul. Why do Christians pray, “Forgive us our debts?”
“Forgive Us Our Debts”: Getting Specific When Confessing Our Sins to God
Are you spiritually “asleep at the wheel” when it comes to recognizing certain patterns of behavior and seemingly mundane thoughts and actions that actually transgress God’s law?
Counting Our Blessings: A Prayer about Free Will
Here is a prayer to help you meditate on the free will and natural liberty God gave to man in his state of innocency “to do that which was good, and well pleasing to God” (WCF 9.1-3).