Category Archives: Daily Prayers

Reading: Proverbs 7-9; Psalm 150

Father, let everything that has breath praise you! Let every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth praise you in your sanctuary. Let every musician make a beautiful melody lifting up your greatness. There is wisdom in knowing your greatness and giving you praise. Wisdom is not hidden from us, for you have revealed it through your Word and your world. It is worth more than any treasure in this world. Fear of you is hatred of evil, pride, and arrogance. This fear leads to wisdom, which you make available to anyone who seeks it diligently. Wisdom has existed since before the world was created, and it is woven into the fabric of creation. Wisdom is the way to life, and to forsake it is to embrace destruction. Lord, let me receive instruction humbly and learn from the wise and righteous. But let me carefully discern between wisdom and folly. Both offer rewards, but folly offers hers in exchange for nothing. This is a sure sign of poor advice that can’t be trusted, for everything costs something. Wisdom costs learning and training in the way of righteousness. Folly claims to cost nothing, but ends up costing your life.

Reading: Proverbs 4-6; Psalm 149

Father, may your people sing to you a new song! May their praise and worship lead them to make new and beautiful art. Lord, you take pleasure in your people – you actually like them. You love them, but you also accept them. It is the humble you adorn with salvation, those lowly enough in Spirit to see they need you. Make me a man of wisdom so that I can pass down sound instruction to my children. Give me wisdom, give me insight, and show me the path of life. I want to be able to tell my children to remember my words and instructions to find the path to life. I want them to see that righteousness leads them down the path that gets brighter and brighter. Father, guard my eyes and my heart from wandering from my wife. Let me never be enticed by a woman with evil intentions. Thank you, Lord, for keeping me faithful to her thus far. Let me never forget that nothing is hidden from you, Lord. You see all and ponder all that I do, think, and feel. Help me see your commandments and rules as the path to life. 

Reading: Proverbs 1-3; Psalm 148

Father, all of creation exists because you commanded it with a word. Therefore, the stars, trees, oceans, creatures, and people should all praise you with all their energy. You alone are worthy of praise, God. You raised up a horn in Jesus who brought us victory over death. O death, where is your sting! Christ has taken away the power of sin by conquering death, ushering his people to victory. Lord, make me wise so that I can increase in knowledge and understanding. Show me what it means to fear you that I might be wise beyond my years. Let me not take counsel with those who would entice me into sin. Those who try to get rich unjustly end up robbing themselves of life. Open my eyes to the wisdom that’s available all around me. Lord, I want your wisdom more than money, more than treasure. I know you will give it to me if I set my heart on finding it. I don’t want to follow my heart or look inside myself for truth because I am not able to understand everything like you are. My heart is clouded by sin, but yours is pure and incorruptible. Let not my wisdom stay simple knowledge, but let it flourish by changing how I live.