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Daily Prayer – Pray ACTS 

Day 11

“Let me experience your faithful love in the morning, for I trust in you.
Reveal to me the way I should go because I appeal to you.”

God, You are our refuge and strength.
Our stronghold.
Our fortress.
We praise You that we can trust You to protect us from danger,
for Jesus can rescue us from Your anger and judgment at our sin.
We praise You that in You we have protection from all our enemies and have no need to be afraid of them.
For You hold us fast, giving us the assurance that no power of hell or scheme of man will be able to every pluck us from Your strong hand.
We praise You that You can give us the help we need in times of trouble,
ensuring that everything works for our good to make us more like Christ,
and that the work that has already begun in us is brought to completion.
Amen.

We confess to You, loving Lord God, that we rely on our own understanding and do not acknowledge You in all our ways.
We foolishly do not trust in You with all our hearts and move off the narrow way that is best for us.
We are proud and think more highly of ourselves that we should.
We return to You now, because You are the One who has redeemed us,
and we beg of You not to let our sin ruin us,
for You are able to save us from all our sins and all their consequences.
We give You our thanks, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who purifies us from all sin,
for giving us new birth in a living hope through His resurrection from the dead.
In this we greatly rejoice.
Amen.

Help us to have no other gods before You.
To not put anything or anyone in Your place, for You alone are our Creator and our Redeemer.
Help us to worship You, to adore You, to listen to You, to trust You, to obey You, to serve You, and to live for You more than anything else.
Give us the strength we need to resist the schemes of the devil which would have us makes other things –
our possessions, wealth, hobbies, interests, talents, family members and friends – as more important than You.
Today may we eagerly seek You and love You above all things.
Amen.

Lord, save, bless, shepherd, and carry us forever.
Provide for all our physical and spiritual needs.
Give today, the daily bread we need: the gifts, time, resources, energy, and health we need to live for Your glory.
Protect us from the evil one and from giving into the temptation to sin.
Amen.

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Daily Prayer – Pray ACTS 

Day 10

“Let me experience your faithful love in the morning, for I trust in you.
Reveal to me the way I should go because I appeal to you.”

Loving Lord God,
We come to You who are love.
There has never been a time when You have not been love.
For You, God the Father, have always loved the Son and the Holy Spirit.
And You, God the Son, have always loved the Father and the Holy Spirit.
And You, God the Holy Spirit, have always loved the Father and the Son.
You are love and we praise You that Your love is so great that it overflowed to create this world where Your love could be enjoyed by others.
And we praise You that even after creation, Your love continued to overflow,
because though all humanity rejected Your love,
You continued to love them and made this known by sending Your Son to be our Saviour,
to be the propitiation for us,
that sacrifice which turns away the wrath we deserve because of our sin.
How great Your love for us must be that You would do this for us, and then give to us the faith to believe in Christ so that we can be called Your children.
Help us to love You in return with all our hearts and soul and mind and strength.
Amen.

Forgive us, Father, we pray.
Have mercy on us, sinners, for we have sinned against heaven and before You, and have not honoured You as we should.
We have not obeyed the laws which You have set before us in Your Word even though they are holy, righteous, and good.
As we acknowledge our transgressions, which are many, wash us and we will be whiter than snow.
Hide Your face from looking on our sins and blot out our iniquities.
Thank You that in Jesus, we are justified freely from all our sins because we could never be justified from them by keeping the law.
What a great Redeemer He is and what great deliverance He gives to us.
Amen.

Thank you, Lord, for the wisdom You generously and ungrudgingly give to all who ask You for it.
We pray that we would be those who seek it and put our energy into knowing You more deeply and Your ways more clearly.
Help us to treasure the truth found in Your Word.
Give us insight and understanding of what it means so that we make wise choices and walk in a manner which pleases you.
With many voices competing for our attention today, enable us to discern what is true wisdom that comes from You, and what is of the world.
Amen.

Lord, save, bless, shepherd, and carry us forever.
Provide for all our physical and spiritual needs.
Give today, the daily bread we need: the gifts, time, resources, energy, and health we need to live for Your glory.
Protect us from the evil one and from giving into the temptation to sin.
Amen.

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Daily Prayer – Pray ACTS 

Day 9

“Let me experience your faithful love in the morning, for I trust in you.
Reveal to me the way I should go because I appeal to you.”

God, we praise You, that You are a jealous God.
You are jealous when we give to created things that which belongs to You, the Creator.
For it is You who deserve our glory and praise because it is You who has made us, and everything comes from You.
We thank You that You are jealous when we do not give You the honour You are due,
when we worship other gods or bow down in our hearts to idols because it shows how passionately You care for us and how You want what is best for us.
You know how dangerous it is for us to not be part of Your family because towards those outside of this, You are a consuming fire.
So, we praise You that having set Your love upon us and chosen us,
in Christ, you are not just our Maker but our Saviour,
and in Your jealousy will not let us be completely led away from You, though we do at times find ourselves straying.
Amen.

It is to our shame our Lord, that before we were justified by Christ and sanctified by Your Spirit, we were foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaves to various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, and hated by and hating others.
But to our continued shame we admit that though a great change has happened in our lives, it not a full and complete change, as these are sins we still are tempted by, and struggle with.
We thank You for the kindness You have already shown to us,
a kindness that is meant to lead us to repentance,
so, we repent now of the sins we continue to commit,
and ask You to hear us, and forgive us, and teach us the good way in which we should walk.
Amen.

Thank you, merciful God, that a day is coming when this present age will be over, and our present struggle to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives will be over.
As we wait for Jesus to appear, grant to us the grace we need, and the power of the Holy Spirit to be self-controlled.
To keep on resisting the temptation to sin, even when it feels like we’ve reached our limits.
Give us the strength we need to keep saying “No” to our sinful desires and to grow in our heart a godly self-restraint, so that our impulsive reactions to situations and events are how you would want them to be.
Amen.

Lord, save, bless, shepherd, and carry us forever.
Provide for all our physical and spiritual needs.
Give today, the daily bread we need: the gifts, time, resources, energy, and health we need to live for Your glory.
Protect us from the evil one and from giving into the temptation to sin.
Amen.

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Daily Prayer – Pray ACTS 

Day 8

“Let me experience your faithful love in the morning, for I trust in you.
Reveal to me the way I should go because I appeal to you.”

Our God,
There is so much about You that we are not able to know.
You are beyond our knowledge and understanding.
And yet in Your grace You have not hidden Yourself from us but made Yourself known.
We praise You that You have spoken.
You have spoken in creation, declaring Your glory, and revealing Your majesty to us through what You have made,
so that we can know that You exist,
that You are eternal and all-powerful,
wise and good,
and worthy of our worship.
You have also thankfully spoken through Your Word which is perfect, sure, right, pure, clean, true, and righteous.
Because without this, our knowledge would be limited, and we would still be in dark concerning how we can be saved by Jesus, our Rock and Redeemer,
and live a life that is acceptable to You.
Amen.

Forgive us all our trespasses Lord, for each day we sin against You in our thoughts, our words, and our deeds.
Especially we have sinned in the area of sexual immorality.
We are convicted by the weight of those words which You have spoken, that there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, that it is Your will, our sanctification that we abstain from it.
Yet we do not control our own bodies in holiness as we should.
We lust after what we should not.
We thank You that there is forgiveness available for us because we have a High Priest, who though tempted in every way did not sin, and did not like other high priests, need to offer sacrifices for his own sins and then for the sins of the people.
We thank You that when Jesus offered Himself up for us on the cross, He did so once for all time, and by doing so, has made us holy and blameless in Your sight.
Amen.

May, loving Father, our gentleness be evident to all, as we bear with one another in love.
Give us a heart like Christ’s who was gentle in heart and would this lead to serving others in a gentle manner, not treating them harshly but blessing them.
Remind us to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good, to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and always to be gentle towards everyone, especially with our words that we find easy to put down others with.
Holy Spirit give us the strength we need to be gentle in how we respond to those who oppose us.
Amen.

Lord, save, bless, shepherd, and carry us forever.
Provide for all our physical and spiritual needs.
Give today, the daily bread we need: the gifts, time, resources, energy, and health we need to live for Your glory.
Protect us from the evil one and from giving into the temptation to sin.
Amen.

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Daily Prayer – Pray ACTS 

Day 7

“Let me experience your faithful love in the morning, for I trust in you.
Reveal to me the way I should go because I appeal to you.”

Holy, Holy, Holy, are You O Lord Almighty.
You are high and exalted.
Your Name is holy and awesome.
There is no one holy like You.
There is no one besides You.
Your ways are holy and just.
Your deeds and works are holy and perfect in every way.
There is no unrighteousness found in You.
And though Your eyes are too pure to look on evil and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing, You have made us Your holy people.
Choosing us from before foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in Your sight.
We praise You.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus.
Help us to be holy as You our God are holy.
We pray “Hallowed be Your Name.”
Amen.

Our God, how slow of heart we are to understand and believe all that Your Word says.
We have not made the progress in following Christ that we should have done by now.
We are still needing to be taught the basic principles of Your revelation again, because we are not mature enough to cope with the solid food in Your Word.
We hear what You have said, yet we often don’t listen.
Our hearts are distracted by the things of this world.
Forgive us and may we hear afresh Jesus say to us, “Friend, your sins are forgiven,” because You have given to us the faith to believe in Him.
We give You thanks and praise that through His blood shed on the cross, we have redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.
Amen.

Faithful and unchanging God, we pray that we would Your faithful people.
We thank You for the examples in Scripture, and the lives of those we know who have proved themselves faithful to Jesus, and we ask for Your Spirit’s help in following their footsteps by running with perseverance the race marked out for us.
Give us the strength to resist anything that would distract us from following Christ and would pull our hearts away from wholehearted devotion to Him.
Help us to be trustworthy and dependable, those whom others can rely on, and to be faithful stewards of the gifts You give to us to serve others with, so that in the future we might hear You say to us “Well done, good and faithful servant.”
Amen.

Lord, save, bless, shepherd, and carry us forever.
Provide for all our physical and spiritual needs.
Give today, the daily bread we need: the gifts, time, resources, energy, and health we need to live for Your glory.
Protect us from the evil one and from giving into the temptation to sin.
Amen.

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