DayLight Scripture – Who can endure the day of God’s coming? Who can withstand God’s appearance? God is like the refiner’s fire or the cleaner’s soap.
Malachi 3: 2
DayLight Prayer – Great God, Let me this day rejoice to know that you are coming, and I pray, coming soon. I am blessed to know that because of Jesus, I can be clean and presentable to you. I am blessed to be represented by the Holy One and through his grace I am refined. Lord I bless your name. Amen.
DayLight Scripture – All you people: Trust in God at all times! Pour out your hearts before him! God is our refuge!
Psalm 62:8
DayLight Prayer – Lord, Today I pray for persons who are facing a difficult time ahead, those whose futures seem bleak and uncertain, those whose security is threatened by loss of employment, those who have lost a love one, those who are in the midst of divorce, and those who are in prison…anyone who is struggling with life. Lord as they pour their hearts out before you, seeking refuge in you, let them know that you are there; that they are not alone. Amen.
DayLight Scripture – This saying is reliable and deserves full acceptance: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—and I’m the biggest sinner of all.
1 Timothy 1:15
DayLight Prayer – Lord, Help me today to recognize my own sinfulness. We are all sinners, and I thank you that you came to save us! Amen.
DayLight Scripture – All who are led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons and daughters.
Romans 8:14
DayLight Prayer – Lord, I rejoice that your spirit lives within me. I pray for you to help me to be led by your Spirit so that my life reflects your wisdom, commitment, love and generosity. Amen.
DayLight Scripture – Jesus saved us because of his mercy, not because of righteous things we had done. He did it through the washing of new birth and the renewing by the Holy Spirit.
Titus 3:5
DayLight Prayer – Lord, My thoughts today are for people who believe they have to be good before they can be God’s. Help them Lord to understand that the being good can only happen when they are God’s. Thank you for loving me as I am. Thank you for the grace I have because of your mercy. Amen.
DayLight Scripture – Never be rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be quick to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven, and you upon earth; therefore let your words be few.
Ecclesiastes 5:2
DayLight Prayer – Lord, Help me today to offer the prayers of my heart with as few words as possible. Even if they come in sighs and tears only, I know you hear and understand. Amen.
DayLight Scripture – All the leaders and all the people rejoiced and brought their money and dropped it into the chest until it was full.
2 Chronicles 24:10
DayLight Prayer – Lord, As we begin this new year, I pray for all those who will face the year in poverty. I pray that you will use the generosity of others to make provisions for those who have little. All of 2015, instill in me the generous heart of Jesus, who gave freely for us to live . Amen.
DayLight Scripture – Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name; make his deeds known to all people! Sing to God, sing praises to him; dwell on all his wondrous works!
1 Chronicles 16: 8-9
DayLight Prayer – Lord, As one day turns to the next, as one year turns to the next, I want to say thank you for this year of transition. You have helped us all in the changes taking place, set us in a good place, and given us the abundant life that you promised. For those who have had a difficult year, a year of loss, a year of struggle, a year of pain, I pray for their spirits’ healing. Instill in them the hope of your presence, and let them know that the best is still to come. Amen.
DayLight Scripture – God named the dry land Earth, and he named the gathered waters Seas. God saw how good it was.
Genesis 1:10
DayLight Prayer – Awesome creator, today I marveled as I watched the geese take flight from the pond across the field in my back yard, how each bird knows how to fly in sync, wings together, chattering to one another like friends. God, this world you have made is glorious. I praise you for your great powers of creation. Create in me the spirit of Jesus today. Amen.
DayLight Scripture – So the Egyptians enslaved the Israelites. They made their lives miserable with hard labor, making mortar and bricks, doing field work, and by forcing them to do all kinds of other cruel work.
Exodus 1: 13-14
DayLight Prayer – Lord, Today my prayer is for people who live in various places of slavery. Even now, women, children and men are enslaved by people groups, governments, family situation, terrorists, addictions, misery, mental and emotional diseases, debt and illness. Have mercy on them Lord, and come quickly to their rescue. I pray through Jesus who frees us. Amen.
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