DayLight Scripture –   Jacob said, “No, please, do me the kindness of accepting my gift. Seeing your face is like seeing God’s face, since you’ve accepted me so warmly.

Genesis 33:10

DayLight Prayer – Lord, Thank you for the love that you give between friends. I pray that you encourage all my friends who are doubting themselves today. I pray that you will made inroads into their hearts and pour your sweet loving kindness into them until they feel the power of your Holy presence! Amen. 

DayLight Scripture –   We escaped like a bird from the hunters’ trap; the trap was broken so we escaped!

Psalm 124:7

DayLight Prayer – Lord, My prayer today is for anyone who is feeling trapped in a situation, whether that situation is of their own choosing or not. I pray that you enable them to see the way out that you are providing, and give them the strength to step out of the snares that hold them. Amen.

DayLight Scripture –   Don’t be ashamed of the testimony about the Lord or of me, his prisoner. Instead, share the suffering for the good news, depending on God’s power.

2 Timothy 1: 8

DayLight Prayer – Holy Lord, Today I pray for those in the world who are suffering in terrible ways because of the testimony that they share about you and your power. Let them be encouraged through your spirit, and by this prayer. Strengthen them for the work that they are doing, and answer their prayers with power and amazing grace. Amen. 

DayLight Scripture –   If I speak in tongues of human beings and of angels but I don’t have love, I’m a clanging gong or a clashing cymbal.

1 Corinthians 13:1

DayLight Prayer – Lord, In this world there are so many tongues, so many words, and so few of them speak of peace and love. They are cymbals for sure, clanging in the winds of discord, oppression, bigotry, unforgiveness and hate. Forgive us Lord. Fill us with your love and help us speak in ways that are caring. Amen.

DayLight Scripture –   God said, “Let there be light.” And so light appeared.

Genesis 1:3

DayLight Prayer – Lord, I am so grateful for the light that you speak into my life. I need your help every single day to survive in some of the dark places I yet see in this world. Keep me filled with your light, and let it be spoken through me. Amen.

DayLight Scripture –   Now hurry, go and tell his disciples, ‘He’s been raised from the dead. He’s going on ahead of you to Galilee. You will see him there.’ I’ve given the message to you women to go and tell.”

Matthew 28:7

DayLight Prayer – Lord, With happiness I celebrate your resurrection. I thank you for what you have done on my behalf and for all people. Once we were slaves, but now we are free. God be with us all as we live into being Easter people. Amen.

DayLight Scripture – Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had carved out of the rock. After he rolled a large stone at the door of the tomb, he went away.

Matthew 27:59

DayLight Prayer – Lord, On this the Holy Saturday of your passion, help us to feel the depth of your sacrifice. Give us strength, power and willingness to walk the way of Jesus, to love and to serve others. Lord have mercy. Amen.

DayLight Scripture –   Carrying his cross by himself, he went out to a place called Skull Place (in Aramaic, Golgotha). That’s where they crucified him—and two others with him, one on each side and Jesus in the middle.

John 19:17-18

DayLight Prayer – Lord, Help me to think on your great love. A love that died for me. Amen.

DayLight Scripture –   “I’m not praying only for them but also for those who believe in me because of their word. I pray they will be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. I pray that they also will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.

John 17: 20-21

DayLight Prayer – Lord, I am always awed by your priestly prayer that you prayed the night before your passion. I ask you to strengthen us for being who you pray us to be. Show us how to be one, and how to tell the world of your great love. Lord have mercy. Amen.

Susan Clark, Artist

DayLight Scripture –  Fools say in their hearts, There is no God. They are corrupt and do evil things; not one of them does anything good.

Psalm 14:1

DayLight Prayer – Lord, Forgive the silly games we play, and how they take our minds and our attention away from you and your mission in the earth. You have given us each a mission and a purpose, but instead of seeking it and living into it, we play. And people are lost, hurting, and left out. Lord, have mercy. Amen.