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 • And I will make them and the places all around my hill a blessing, and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing. EZEKIEL 34:26 (ESV)

A Prayer for October

Courage in Hope • Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord. PSALM 31:24 (NIV)

The Almighty's Breath • By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast. JOB 37:10 (ESV)

Guidance from Above • I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. PSALM 32:8 (NRSVA)

God's Unfailing Presence • Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life. You stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes; with your right hand you save me. The Lord will vindicate me; your love, Lord, endures forever—do not abandon the works of your hands. PSALM 138:7–8 (NIV)

Divinely Valuable • For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. EPHESIANS 2:10 (NIV)

Hospitality's Call • Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. 1 PETER 4:9 (ESV)

Call unto Him • Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. JEREMIAH 33:3 (KJV)

Walk Humbly • He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. MICAH 6:8 (NIV)

Life's Vanity • They will join those who have gone before them, who will never again see the light of life. PSALM 49:19 (NIV)

The Power of His Word • The Word gave life to everything that was created, and his life brought light to everyone. JOHN 1:4 (NLT)

Quest for Tranquility • All a person's ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the Lord. PROVERBS 16:2 (NIV)

Healing Grace • If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 JOHN 1:9 (NIV)

Eternal Companionship • And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. MATTHEW 28:20 (NIV)

The Word of Life • We proclaim to you the one who existed from the beginning, whom we have heard and seen. We saw him with our own eyes and touched him with our own hands. He is the Word of life. 1 JOHN 1:1 (NLT)

Open Heart, Open Home • When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home. “If you consider me a believer in the Lord,” she said, “come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us. ACTS 16:15 (NIV)

Practicing Kindness in Every Season • A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed. PROVERBS 11:25 (NIV)

God's Hand in Your Life • The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord. PROVERBS 16:33 (ESV)

Walking in the Light • But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 JOHN 1:7–9 (NIV)

Renewed Strength and Comfort • I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint. JEREMIAH 31:25–26 (NIV)

Worthy of Worship • Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. REVELATION 4:11 (KJV)

A Compassionate Heart • Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other,...