A Prayer to Be Patient with Your Progress
1 Corinthians 13 is most often read at weddings, held up as the standard for the love we give away to another person. And it is all of that....
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Every morning, the team of women behind iBelieve.com bring you a devotional and prayer to help you start your day in conversation with God. The Bible tells us to bring our prayers and petiti...
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20 of 2,395 episodesA Prayer for Noticing More
Most of us move through the world on autopilot — not because we are incapable of noticing, but because we have stopped choosing to. We...
A Prayer Because the Silence Is the Hardest Part
A seventeen-year-old in a dorm room, alone for the first time, with a rule she had made for herself: no calling home before Friday. She woul...
A Prayer to Forgo Comparison
Scrolling through social media on a day that already feels heavy is one of the fastest ways to make a hard day harder. A friend's vacation p...
A Prayer for the Woman Waiting, Whispering Prayers, and Wanting a Child
God sees the woman who is aching for a child. He sees her in the middle of the night, in the quiet places where the longing is too heavy to...
A Prayer of Repentance Without Condemnation
Repentance has a reputation problem. For many people, the word carries a weight of shame, punishment, and finger-pointing that makes it some...
A Prayer to Recharge
A camera battery that is allowed to run completely down takes far longer to recharge than one that is topped up consistently after a few use...
A Prayer to Appreciate Labor Day
Work is not a consequence of the Fall. It is a gift that preceded it. Before sin entered the world, before anything broke or became difficul...
A Prayer When Your Mind Feels Pulled in Every Direction
The more we divide our attention, the more scattered our thoughts become — and yet the pressure to multitask, to keep every plate spin...
A Prayer for the Basket Season of Your Adult Child
Jochebed, the mother of Moses, understood what it means to do everything you possibly can for a child and then face the moment when your han...
A Prayer for Joy That Feels Blocked by Burdens
We know the reasons to be grateful. We know we have the Lord. And still, circumstantial burdens seem to block the joy we are reaching for. P...
A Prayer to Let God’s Joy Lead Your Heart
When God's people had just finished rebuilding the broken walls of Jerusalem and gathered to hear the law read aloud, they were moved to tea...
A Prayer to Live from Victory and Not Defeat
Defeating thoughts have a way of quietly backing us into a corner. Resistance at every turn, mundane tasks that start to feel monumental, we...
A Prayer for Our Labors Outside the Church Walls
Matthew 9:35-38 shows Jesus going throughout cities and villages, not staying in one place, moved by compassion for people who were harassed...
A Prayer to Choose Your Thoughts Wisely
Paul wrote his letter to the Philippians while under arrest in Rome, expecting to be executed by his enemies. He had every reason to ruminat...
A Prayer Expressing Anger at Injustices in the World
Quaker preacher John Woolman once experienced a vision of slaves producing the very goods he used in his daily life, and the weight of that...
A Prayer for Helping Someone with a Broken Heart
When you are the one who shows up in the darkest moments, physically or virtually present in a time of genuine crisis, you have an opportuni...
A Prayer When You’re in a Bible-Reading Funk
Bible-reading funks are more common than most people admit, and they arrive for all kinds of reasons. A busy season of life, a complicated h...
A Prayer to Pull Away to a Quiet Place Before Autumn Hits
The calendar is about to fill back up. New school schedules, new work projects, church commitments, and the steady accumulation of fall's de...
A Prayer to Turn to Jesus When You’re Too Tired
Sometimes exhaustion goes so deep that even turning to God feels like more than the body and spirit can manage. Not a crisis of faith, not a...