Sunday, May 13, 2012 Prayer Activity Prayer Focus Scripture for meditation Psalm 63:3 Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. Psalm 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." Psalm 139:23-24 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Jeremiah 23:29 Is not my word like fire," declares the LORD, "and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces? Colossians 4:2 Devote yourselves to prayer being watchful and thankful. 1 Timothy 2:1-2 I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone - for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. Matthew 7:7-8 Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. Psalm 100:2 Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Joshua 1:8 Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Renew Spiritual Instruction Ecclesiastes 5:2 Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few. Psalm 52:9 I will praise you forever for what you have done; in your name I will hope, for your name is good. I will praise you in the presence of your saints.
Monday, May 14, 2012 Prayer Activity Prayer Focus Scripture for meditation Psalm 8:1 O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Psalm 4:4 When you are on your beds, search your hearts and be silent. Psalm 15:1-2 Lord, who may dwell in your sanctuary? Who may live on your holy hill? He whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from his heart Psalm 12:5 Because of the oppression of the weak and the groaning of the needy, I will now arise, says the Lord. I will protect them from those who malign them. Matthew 26:41 Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing but the body is weak. Psalm 2:8 Ask of me and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. Psalm 10:17 You hear, O Lord, the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry. Psalm 16:11 You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand. Psalm 30:4-5 Sing to the Lord, you saints of his; praise his holy name. For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime: weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning. Psalm 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord and on his law he mediates day and night. Renew Spiritual Instruction Psalm 23:2-3 He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name s sake. Psalm 22:3 You are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the praise of Israel.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 Prayer Activity Prayer Focus Scripture for Renew Spiritual Instruction Psalm 24:1-2 The earth is the Lord s and everything in it, the world and all who live in it; for he founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters. Psalm 130:5 I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope Psalm 24:3-4 Who may ascend the hill of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear by what is false. Psalm 33:12-15 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance. From heaven the Lord looks down and sees all mankind: from his dwelling place he watches all who live on earth he who forms the hearts of all, who considers everything they do. Psalm 27:4 One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple. Psalm 11:3-4 When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do? The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord is on his heavenly throne. He observes the sons of men; his eyes examine them. Psalm 25:4-5 Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. Psalm 16:7-8 I will praise the Lord who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. I have set the Lord always before me, because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Psalm 33:1-3 Sing joyfully to the Lord, you righteous; it is fitting for the upright to praise him. the Lord with the harp; make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre. Sing to him a new song; play skillfully and shout for joy. Psalm 48:9-10 Within your temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing love. Like your name, O God, your praise reaches to the ends of the earth; your right hand is filled with righteousness. Psalm 24:14 The Lord confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them. Psalm 24:10 All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful for those who keep the demands of his covenant.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Prayer Activity Prayer Focus Scripture for Psalm 27:1 The Lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm 130:6 My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning. Psalm 25:18 Look upon my affliction and my distress and take away all my sins. Psalm 44:23-26 Awake, O Lord! Why do you sleep? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever. Why do you hide your face and forget our misery and oppression? We are brought down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground. Rise up and help us; redeem us because of your unfailing love. Psalm 38: 15 I wait for you, O Lord; you will answer, O my God. Psalm 20:6-7 Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed; he answers him from his holy heaven with the saving power of his right hand. Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. Psalm 20:1 May the Lord answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you. Psalm 21:6 Surely you have granted him eternal blessings and made him glad with the joy of your presence. Psalm 47:5-7 God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the Lord amid the sounding of trumpets. Sing praise to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises. For God is the King of all the earth; sing to him a psalm of praise. Psalm 37:4-5 Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this. Renew Spiritual Instruction Psalm 34:11-14 Come, my children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord. Whoever of you loves life and desires to see many good days, keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking lies. Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. Psalm 29:1-2 Ascribe to the Lord, O mighty ones, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness.
Thursday, May 17, 2012 Prayer Activity Prayer Focus Scripture for Psalm 34:1-3 I will extol the Lord at all times; his praise will always be on my lips. My soul will boast in the Lord; let the afflicted hear and rejoice. Glorify the Lord with me; let us exalt his name together. Psalm 131:2 But I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me. Psalm 51:10-12 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit to sustain me. Jeremiah 29:11-13 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. Psalm 39:7, 9 But now, Lord, what do I look for? My hope is in you I was silent; I would not open my mouth, for you are the one who has done this. Psalm 33:10-11 The Lord foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples. But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations. Psalm 25:20-21 Guard my life and rescue me; let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you. May integrity and uprightness protect me because my hope is in you. Psalm 50:23 He who sacrifices thank offerings honors me, and he prepares the way so that I may show him the salvation of God. Psalm 66:1-3 Shout with joy to God, all the earth! Sing the glory of his name; make his praise glorious! Say to God, how awesome are your deeds! So great is your power that your enemies cringe before you. All the earth bows down to you; they sing praise to you, they sing praise to your name. Psalm 46:10-11 Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Renew Spiritual Instruction Psalm 19:1-4 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where there voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. Psalm 36:5-7 Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the great deep. O Lord, you preserve both man and beast. How priceless is your unfailing love!
Friday, May 18, 2012 Prayer Activity Prayer Focus Scripture for Renew Spiritual Instruction Psalm 67:3-5 May the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise you. May the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you rule the peoples justly and guide the nations of the earth. May the peoples praise you, O God. Psalm 27:14 Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Psalm 139:23-24 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. Ezekiel 36:26-28 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. You will live in the land I gave your forefathers, you will be my people and I will be your God. Isaiah 62:6, 7 I have posted watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the Lord, give yourselves no rest, and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth. Psalm 72:1-4 Endow the king with your justice, O God, the royal son with your righteousness. He will judge your people in righteousness, your afflicted ones with justice. The mountains will bring prosperity to the people, the hills the fruit of righteousness. He will defend the afflicted among the people and save the children of the needy; he will crush the oppressor. Psalm 26:2-3 Test me, O Lord, and try me, examine my heart and my mind; for your love is ever before me and I walk continually in your truth. Psalm 106:1-2 the Lord. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever. Who can proclaim the mighty acts of the Lord or fully declare his praise? Psalm 89:1-2 I will sing of the Lord s great love forever; with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through all generations. I will declare that your love stands firm forever, that you established your faithfulness in heaven itself. Psalm 119: 9, 10 How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Psalm 81:13-14, 16 If my people would but listen to me, if Israel would follow my ways, how quickly would I subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes But you would be fed with the finest of wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you Psalm 90:1-2 Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations. Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
Saturday, May 19, 2012 Prayer Activity Prayer Focus Scripture for Psalm 99:1-3 The Lord reigns, let the nations tremble; he sits enthroned between the cherubim, let the earth shake. Great is the Lord in Zion; he is exalted over all the nations. Let them praise your great and awesome name he is holy. Psalm 33:20-22 We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield. In him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name. May your unfailing love rest upon us, O Lord, even as we put our hope in you. Psalm 101:2-4 I will be careful to lead a blameless life when will you come to me? I will walk in my house with blameless heart. I will set before my eyes no vile thing. The deeds of faithless men I hate; they will not cling to me. Men of perverse heart shall be far from me; I will have nothing to do with evil. II Chronicles 7:14 If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Psalm 105:3 Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice. Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always. Psalm 80:1-3 Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock; you who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth Awaken your might; come and save us. Restore us O God; make your face shine upon us that we may be saved. Psalm 31:15-16 My times are in your hands; deliver me from my enemies and from those who pursue me. Let your face shine on your servant; save me in your unfailing love. Psalm 118:28-29 You are my God, and I will give you thanks; you are my God, and I will exalt you. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever. Psalm 98:1-3 Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things; his right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him. The Lord has made his salvation known and revealed his righteousness to the nations. He has remembered his love and his faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. Psalm 119:147-148 I rise before dawn and cry for help; I have put my hope in your word. My eyes stay open through the watches of the night that I may meditate on your promises. Renew Spiritual Instruction Psalm 95:7-9 Today if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the desert, where your fathers tested and tried me, though they had seen what I did. Psalm 103:1-5 the Lord, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle s.
Sunday, May 20, 2012 Prayer Activity Prayer Focus Scripture for Psalm 104:1-4 the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendor and majesty. He wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters. He makes the clouds his chariot and rides on the wings of the wind. He makes winds his messengers, flames of fire his servants. Psalm 37:7 Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes. Psalm 141:3-4 Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips. Let not my heart be drawn to what is evil, to take part in wicked deeds with men who are evildoers; let me not eat of their delicacies. Matthew 4:4 Jesus answered, It is written, Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. Psalm 119:30-32 I have chosen the way of truth; I have set my heart on your laws. I hold fast to your statutes, O Lord; do not let me be put to shame. I run in the path of your commands, for you have set my heart free. Psalm 122:6-9 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May those who love you be secure. May there be peace within your walls and security within your citadels. For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, Peace be within you. For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your prosperity. Psalm 35:22-23 O Lord, you have seen this; be not silent. Do not be far from me, O Lord. Awake, and rise to my defense! Contend for me, my God and Lord. Psalm 126:1-3 When the Lord brought back the captives to Zion, we were like men who dreamed. Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them. The Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy. Psalm 108:1-5 My heart is steadfast, O God; I will sing and make music with all my soul. Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn. I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations; I will sing of you among the peoples. For great is your love, higher than the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, and let your glory be over all the earth. Psalm 139:16-18 All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How fast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you. Renew Spiritual Instruction Psalm 131:2 But I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me. Psalm 116:1-2 I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live.