60 Days of Prayer

Each issue of 60 Days of Prayer is filled with reflections and prayers that will help quiet your mind and prepare your heart for prayer.

A Note from the Editor • As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease. GENESIS 8:22 (NIV)

A Prayer for August

Harvesting Wisdom • He who gathers crops in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son. PROVERBS 10:5 (NIV)

Shaped in His Hands • Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. ISAIAH 64:8 (NIV)

Promise of His Return • And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. JOHN 14:3 (NIV)

The Strength in Serenity • Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes. PSALM 37:7 (NIV)

Listen to the Call of Wisdom • A fool spurns a parent’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction show prudence. PROVERBS 15:5 (NIV)

Peace in Life’s Shadows • Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. PSALM 23:4 (NIV)

Embrace Your Age • So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 2 CORINTHIANS 4:16 (ESV)

Turn to God • When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. ISAIAH 43:2 (NIV)

All Fall Short, All Receive Grace • For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. ROMANS 3:23 (NIV)

Midnights Praises • At midnight I rise to give you thanks for your righteous laws. I am a friend to all who fear you, to all who follow your precepts. PSALM 119:62-63 (NIV)

The Wealth of Inner Peace • But godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 TIMOTHY 6:6 (NIV)

Finding Refuge • But the Lord has become my fortress, and my God the rock in whom I take refuge. PSALM 94:22 (NIV)

A Tomorrow Free of Pain • Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat down on them, nor any scorching heat. REVELATION 7:16 (NIV)

The Unearned Blessing of Salvation • For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast. EPHESIANS 2:8-9 (NIV)

Shine Bright, You Righteous Ones • So may all your enemies perish, Lord! But may all who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength. JUDGES 5:31 (NIV)

Savor the Present Moment • Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. JAMES 4:14 (NIV)

The Freedom of the Spirit • Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 2 CORINTHIANS 3:17 (NIV)

The Reward of Trust • Whoever gives heed to instruction prospers, and blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord. PROVERBS 16:20 (NIV)

Power in the Lord • Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. EPHESIANS 6:10 (NIV)

Heaven-Sent Stressbuster • From His fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. JOHN 1:16 (ESV)

Truth as a Guide • How long, Lord? Will you forget me forver? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thought and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my my enemy triumph over me? PSALM 13:1-2 (NIV)

A Symphony of Praise from Dawn to Dusk • From the rising of the sun to the...