DayLight Scripture – The peace of Christ must control your hearts—a peace into which you were called in one body. And be thankful people.

Colossians 3:15

DayLight Prayer – Lord, control my peacefulness today. Help me deal with all aggravations that come my way and turn them into the unimportant.  Show me your peace, and bless me with you strength to live in it, through Jesus I pray. Amen.

DayLight Scripture –

You have been a refuge for the poor,
a refuge for the needy in distress,
a hiding place from the storm,
a shade from the heat.

Isaiah 25:4

DayLight Prayer – Holy God, With Christ in you, and Christ in me, help me also to offer a refuge for those who need my help, a shade for a weary soul. Forgive me when I overlook a person who is hurt and struggling while in my haste to take care of myself, to satisfy my own needs, and find my own refuge. Forgive me for Christ’s sake, I pray. Amen.

DayLight Scripture – When you pray, go to your room, shut the door, and pray to your Father who is present in that secret place. Your Father who sees what you do in secret will reward you.

Matthew 6:6

DayLight Prayer – Lord, As I enter into a Holy Lent this day, may my heart be open to you. Help me to reflect, consider, and think deeply about my life, including issues that upset me, people who bedraggle me, and how I consider them. Help me to hear your council. Help me to gain wisdom from your word. Help me understand how to carry a penitent attitude for Christ’s sake. Amen.

DayLight Scripture – Night and day in the tombs and the hills, he would howl and cut himself with stones.

Mark 5:5

DayLight Prayer – Lord, Today my prayer is for the many people who live with mental illness and for those who care for them. May they be healed by your touch that comes in the form of unconditional love and compassion by those you have so gifted. Thank you for people who are your hands and feet to those not in a right mind.  May they be blessed by what they do. Amen.

God withheld rain from you when there were still three months to the harvest.
God allowed no rain to fall on one city,
no rain to fall on another city.
One field was rained on,
and the field dried up where it didn’t rain.

Amos 4:7

DayLight Prayer – Lord, I think that I am glad that I do not control the weather. I don’t know if I could pour rainy days in the right sequence, or limit the sunny days without causing a drought. Better that you send the sun and rain, and I thank you for that mercy. I bless the name of the Lord…for life-giving rain…and for life giving sunshine. Amen.

DayLight Scripture – God created people male and female. He blessed them and called them humanity on the day they were created.

Genesis 5:2

DayLight Prayer – Lord, I don’t think that I thank you very often for the other humans you have created. But if they were not here with me, I would despair in my loneliness. So thank you for the people you have given me in my life. Because of them, my world if full and overflowing. Thank you, Lord.  Amen.

DayLight Scripture – “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “the one who is and was and is coming, the Almighty.”

Revelation 1:8

DayLight Prayer – Lord, When I am feeling less that perky…ah you know, a little down, I am so thankful to know that I am protected and cared for by the eternal one; my God, my Lord and my savior.  Amen.

DayLight Scripture – Hate stirs up conflict, but love covers all offenses.

Proverbs 10:12

DayLight Prayer – Gracious Lord, Come to me when I am conflicted. Assist me to allow love to cover all offenses I may want to give and all that I feel against me. Amen

DayLight Scripture – Hard work is worthwhile, but empty talk will make you poor.

Proverbs 14:23

DayLight Prayer – Gracious Lord, Thank you for giving me work, and for the strength and presence of mind to accomplish the things I need to. Thank you too for times of leisure, which refresh my spirit. Amen.

DayLight Scripture – Noah was six hundred years old when he went into the boat to escape the flood, and he did everything the Lord had told him to do. His wife, his sons, and his daughters-in-law all went inside with him.

Genesis 7:5-7

DayLight Prayer – Lord, I thank you for every single day you have given me to live. Some have been more enjoyable than others, but each one has carried a blessing of some kind. Your generosity is overwhelming and I love you. Amen.