HINTSGood day. Welcome to Day 2 of 10 Daily Prayers. I pray you got a great deal out of Day 1 and that you will get even more out of this day.
I wanted to share some hints with you before we begin, with the hopes it will help you to get a great deal out of 10 Daily Prayers. The first hint I want to share is if you read the prayers I have written out, please read them all the way through. I guarantee something will speak to you in the prayer. Then, turn it into a through, slow cooker prayer that applies to your life or someone else's. Or, maybe you know someone else the prayer I wrote is for someone else in your life. Pray that prayer on their behalf.
Another hint, if there was prayer from yesterday you want to pray again or continue, do so now or in the section of the 10 Daily Prayers in which each belongs. Also, no one ever said you have to move to the next day of prayer now. If you feel compelled to pray again from the previous day in its entirety, do so.
I will share more hints as we continue. I hope it helps you to get even more out of 10 Daily Prayers and Your own personal prayer life and prayer journaling.
10 Daily Prayers :1 SelfGood morning, Lord. You are my One and Only. You are my Comforter and Strength. You are my Refuge and are the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
Thank You for yesterday and for this new day.
Lord, I must confess that I didn't pray yesterday as I could or should. Sigh. Pause. Please forgive me and help me to make today a better day. Teach me, Abba, how to pray and how to do so without ceasing.
Almighty God, I realize how much I need prayer (to be prayed for and to pray) and I realize the same can be said about everyone else. Help me to pray for everyone I can. Help me to pray faithfully and thoroughly the 10 Daily Prayers. This is the best way for me to pray. It gets me to pray for everyone I can, even if it is at least a quick popcorn pray, where I pray it really quick, and move on. Popcorn prayers are far better than none. But, help me to do more thorough, slow cooker prayer than popcorn prayer. Help not neglect anyone or anything in my prayers. To You be the glory.
Lord, I woke up fast and didn't slow myself long enough to pray to You first or read Your Word today. Forgive me. Now, please, help me to stop and turn all of myself to You now. Help me to let go of all thoughts, feelings, distractions,my to do list, the disturbing news and current events I read this morning when i should have turned to You first, etc. Help this be all about You, none about me. So, I will pray this verse and then the 9 Prayer Points over my life so I can let go and turn to praying about others.
Lord, You gave me this verse this morning to pray and it really moved me when I first read it and prayed it:
2 Peter 3:9 Living Bible (TLB)
9 He isn’t really being slow about his promised return, even though it sometimes seems that way. But he is waiting, for the good reason that he is not willing that any should perish, and he is giving more time for sinners to repent.
Living Bible (TLB). The Living Bible copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
Lord, I understand why You haven't returned yet. This sure helps.
And, I so understand what this means for me. I believe wholeheartedly, without hesitation or reservation in my Lord Jesus Christ. I have no idea how on earth I would be able to get through one day without Him. Life can be challenging at times. Knowing Jesus makes those challenges a great deal more bearable.
I understand and hear You, Lord. You want me to pray for the lost... Those unsaved and those who are not walking as closely to You and are not in Your Word or praying as they could or should (that could be said about all of us, me included this day, but know who I mean). The lost who never found you nor have lost their way and doubt You and or Your ways. The lost are those I should pray for most. They do know fully know You.
Lord, help me, and all of us, to know You more with each passing moment and day.
Lord, I pray this for my life, for the saved, and for the lost:
Philippians 1:9-11 New Living Translation (NLT)
9 I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding. 10 For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until the day of Christ’s return. 11 May you always be filled with the fruit of your salvation—the righteous character produced in your life by Jesus Christ—for this will bring much glory and praise to God.
New Living Translation (NLT). Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright© 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
Now, I will pray the 9 Prayer Points over my personal life.
9 Prayer Points for Each of the 10 Daily Prayers:
A Worship
B Thanks
C His Will
D Ask: Needs and Wants
E News
F Confession
G Lead and Guide
H Deliver from Evil
I Thanks
2 House and HomeLord, my home is a refuge. It is meant to be a House of Prayer above all else. I realize the Church is supposed to be a House of Prayer. However, in today's world, we have forgotten this. And, in the world today, there will be less and less churches if we keep failing to pray. Terrorism, a modern holocaust, greed, selfishness, and sin is making it where there are less going to a formal type of church. Therefore, each of our homes must at least live that command by Jesus that His house is a House of Prayer. He referred to the synagogue, which is the equivalent of the Church today, but our homes are miniature representations of that. If our homes are not first a House of Prayer, then we miss the mark. God has given us our homes for this reason. They are His and are to be used as His, not as ours.
Lord, help me to make my home a House of Prayer first and foremost. I will not nag my husband and make sure he does the same. (I know he does!) I also will not be hard on myself when I fail. But, I will make each day count in my home and pray 247365. I will make each moment count and make my first and foremost priority and concentration to prayer.
I will read Matthew 21:1-13 now.
I will then focus on this verse:
Matthew 21:13Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
13 And He said to them, “It is written, My house will be called a house of prayer. But you are making it a den of thieves!”
Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB). Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville Tennessee. All rights reserved.
My home is not mine at all. You, Lord, allows me to live in it so I can then make the choice to live it in prayer or in other ways. Lord, how am I stealing from You in my home? What am I stealing from You? And, how is my home not a house of prayer?
I will now pray the 9 Prayer Points over my home as a whole, then everyone in it as a whole, then everyone individually, then everything as a whole, then for the plumbing, electricity, roof, foundation, and exterior then interior walls.
9 Prayer Points for Each of the 10 Daily Prayers:
A Worship
B Thanks
C His Will
D Ask: Needs and Wants
E News
F Confession
G Lead and Guide
H Deliver from Evil
I Thanks
PRAYER HINTS AND TIPS: PRAYER FOR A NEW HOMEAs you look for a new home, pray to find the House of Prayer, the House of God, not for you. Ask for His guidance.
Then, pray for Him to bless it and protect it every step along the way as you try to find it and rent it or purchase it.
Then, before you even move one item into your home... Before you cross the threshold, stop. Put your hands on the door and on the house and pray.
Lord, bless this home and everything and everyone in it. Help this house to be a House and Home of Prayer first and foremost in all we do. This home is Yours, Lord, not ours. We pray this in Jesus's name.
Then, have someone else walk in before you and pray over every room before you even step in your home.
Bring nothing into the home as you now go in with them and pray with them. (Ladies, don't even bring in your purse or bag.)
Dedicate your home first, without exception, to Him and prayer. Then, move in.
Make it the Lord's home first and make it always a House of Prayer in every moment.
3 Family and FriendsLord, I pray this verse now over my family and friends, then I will pray it for the Daily Prayers 4-10. Now, for my family's friends collectively, myself included, I pray:
1 John 3:18 Living Bible (TLB)
18 Little children, let us stop just saying we love people; let us really love them, and show it by our actions.
Living Bible (TLB). The Living Bible copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
Saying I love someone is not enough. It is a start, sure. But, it is just that. If my actions do not show my love, then do I really really love them? Do my actions show I love them? Lord, teach me to show my family and friends love... collectively and individually.
God, I pray for my family and friends to live this verse. I pray that their love grows for those in their lives. I pray Your love grows in them and through them as well. Lord, help them to show Your love to those in their lives more and more. I pray this for my family and friends as a whole. I pray all of this for my family as a whole. I pray this for all of my friends. I pray this for the following individuals as well...
Now, I pray those 9 Prayer Points for them as a whole and then individually:
9 Prayer Points for Each of the 10 Daily Prayers:
A Worship
B Thanks
C His Will
D Ask: Needs and Wants
E News
F Confession
G Lead and Guide
H Deliver from Evil
I Thanks
4 Block and Neighborhood Lord, I realize every prayer I pray for someone else, I need to pray first in my own life. I do not want to judge them in any way and not look in the mirror first. Also, my prayers will be far more effective if I analyze and pray over my life first. I pray for self first so that my prayers will be more powerful and effective for them. They deserve nothing less from me.
I pray this over my life:
John 15:9-13 GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)
9 “I have loved you the same way the Father has loved me. So live in my love. 10 If you obey my commandments, you will live in my love. I have obeyed my Father’s commandments, and in that way I live in his love. 11 I have told you this so that you will be as joyful as I am, and your joy will be complete. 12 Love each other as I have loved you. This is what I’m commanding you to do. 13 The greatest love you can show is to give your life for your friends.
GOD’S WORD Translation (GW). Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. Used by permission of Baker Publishing Group.
Verse 12 is the key verse and is my focus verse:
John 15:12 GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)
12 Love each other as I have loved you. This is what I’m commanding you to do.
Father... Gulp! This is a large expectation. I do not know how to love someone fully with my own love, let alone Yours. This seems intimidating to love another as You have loved me, for I cannot even begin to comprehend or grasp Your love for me. You have an unconditional love that is full and forgiving and it keeps no record of wrong. Your love doesn't have unreasonable expectations. You love fully, thoroughly, completely, knowing my warts and all, my weaknesses, my errors, my misunderstandings, the things I accidentally overlook, etc. You love me anyway. You love me because you enjoy me and like to commune and hang out with me. You love to talk with me. You hold me up when I am weak. You are not argumentative with me. You do not gossip about me or complain about me.
Oh, what we could learn from you. And, I can only imagine how our personal lives, homes, blocks, neighborhoods, churches, towns, cities, states, denominations, nations, the Church as a whole, and world as a whole would be different.
9 Prayer Points for Each of the 10 Daily Prayers:
A Worship
B Thanks
C His Will
D Ask: Needs and Wants
E News
F Confession
G Lead and Guide
H Deliver from Evil
I Thanks
5 City or TownPray
John 15:9-13 over your city or town. 9 Prayer Points for Each of the 10 Daily Prayers:
A Worship
B Thanks
C His Will
D Ask: Needs and Wants
E News
F Confession
G Lead and Guide
H Deliver from Evil
I Thanks
6 Your Church and Denomination
9 Prayer Points for Each of the 10 Daily Prayers:
A Worship
B Thanks
C His Will
D Ask: Needs and Wants
E News
F Confession
G Lead and Guide
H Deliver from Evil
I Thanks
7 StateI pray this for my state:
Psalm 138:8 Living Bible (TLB)
8 The Lord will work out his plans for my life—for your loving-kindness, Lord, continues forever. Don’t abandon me—for you made me.
Living Bible (TLB)
The Living Bible copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
9 Prayer Points for Each of the 10 Daily Prayers:
A Worship
B Thanks
C His Will
D Ask: Needs and Wants
E News
F Confession
G Lead and Guide
H Deliver from Evil
I Thanks
8 NationPsalm 2 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
2 Why are the nations in an uproar
And the peoples devising a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth take their stand
And the rulers take counsel together
Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,
3 “Let us tear their fetters apart
And cast away their cords from us!”
4 He who sits in the heavens laughs,
The Lord scoffs at them.
5 Then He will speak to them in His anger
And terrify them in His fury, saying,
6 “But as for Me, I have installed My King
Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”
7 “I will surely tell of the decree of the Lord:
He said to Me, ‘You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.
8 ‘Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance,
And the very ends of the earth as Your possession.
9 ‘You shall break them with a rod of iron,
You shall shatter them like earthenware.’”
10 Now therefore, O kings, show discernment;
Take warning, O judges of the earth.
11 Worship the Lord with reverence
And rejoice with trembling.
12 Do homage to the Son, that He not become angry, and you perish in the way,
For His wrath may soon be kindled.
How blessed are all who take refuge in Him!
New American Standard Bible (NASB). Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation
9 Prayer Points for Each of the 10 Daily Prayers:
A Worship
B Thanks
C His Will
D Ask: Needs and Wants
E News
F Confession
G Lead and Guide
H Deliver from Evil
I Thanks
9 The Church as a Whole and All BelieversThis is my prayer for the a church as well...
Psalm 2 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
1 Why do the nations rebel
and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth take their stand,
and the rulers conspire together
against the Lord and His Anointed One:
3 “Let us tear off their chains
and free ourselves from their restraints.”
4 The One enthroned in heaven laughs;
the Lord ridicules them.
5 Then He speaks to them in His anger
and terrifies them in His wrath:
6 “I have consecrated My King
on Zion, My holy mountain.”
7 I will declare the Lord’s decree:
He said to Me, “You are My Son;
today I have become Your Father.
8 Ask of Me,
and I will make the nations Your inheritance
and the ends of the earth Your possession.
9 You will break them with a rod of iron;
You will shatter them like pottery.”
10 So now, kings, be wise;
receive instruction, you judges of the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with reverential awe
and rejoice with trembling.
12 Pay homage to the Son or He will be angry
and you will perish in your rebellion,
for His anger may ignite at any moment.
All those who take refuge in Him are happy.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB). Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville Tennessee. All rights reserved.
9 Prayer Points for Each of the 10 Daily Prayers:
A Worship
B Thanks
C His Will
D Ask: Needs and Wants
E News
F Confession
G Lead and Guide
H Deliver from Evil
I Thanks
10 The WorldPsalm 2 Expanded Bible (EXB)
2 Why ·are the nations so angry [do the nations rage/or conspire]?
Why ·are the people making useless plans [do the people plot in vain]?
2 The kings of the earth ·prepare to fight [L take their stand],
and their leaders ·make plans [plot] together
against the Lord
and his ·appointed one [anointed; Messiah; C the king, ultimately Jesus; Acts 4:25–28].
3 They say, “Let’s break ·the chains that hold us back [L their chains/bonds]
and throw off ·the ropes that tie us down [L their ropes/cords from us].”
4 But the one who sits in heaven [C God] laughs;
the Lord ·makes fun of [ridicules; derides] them.
5 Then the Lord ·warns them [L speaks to them in anger]
and frightens them with his ·anger [fury].
6 He says, “I have ·appointed [installed; set] my own king
over my holy mountain, Zion [C the location of the Temple in Jerusalem; 9:11; 48:2, 11; 50:2; 1 Kin. 8:1].”
7 Now I will ·tell [recount to] you what the Lord has ·declared [decreed]:
He said to me, “You are my son.
Today I have become your father [2 Sam. 7:14; Matt. 3:17; Mark 1:11; Luke 3:22; Acts 13:32–33; Heb. 1:5].
8 ·If you ask me [L Ask of me], I will give you the nations as your inheritance;
all the ·people on [L ends of the] earth will be ·yours [L your possession].
9 You will rule over them with an iron ·rod [scepter; C a symbol of royal authority; Rev. 12:5; 19:15].
You will ·break [dash] them into pieces like pottery.”
10 ·So [Now], kings, be wise;
·rulers [L rulers/judges of the earth], ·learn this lesson [be warned].
11 ·Obey [Serve] the Lord with great fear.
·Be happy [Rejoice], ·but tremble [L with trembling].
12 ·Show that you are loyal to his [L Kiss the] son,
or ·you will be destroyed by his anger [L he will be angry and you will perish on the way],
because he can quickly become angry.
But ·happy [blessed] are those who ·trust him for protection [find refuge in him].
Expanded Bible (EXB). The Expanded Bible, Copyright © 2011 Thomas Nelson Inc. All rights reserved.
9 Prayer Points for Each of the 10 Daily Prayers:
A Worship
B Thanks
C His Will
D Ask: Needs and Wants
E News
F Confession
G Lead and Guide
H Deliver from Evil
I Thanks
