DayLight Scripture – “I tell you, my friends, don’t be terrified by those who can kill the body but after that can do nothing more.  I’ll show you whom you should fear: fear the one who, after you have been killed, has the authority to throw you into hell. Indeed, I tell you, that’s the one you should fear.

Luke 12: 4-5

DayLight Prayer – Lord, Today I pray for all those who have suffered losses. I pray that you carry them within your gentle grace. May they be counted among the ones who are blessed in the midst of their grief because they can see you. Amen.

DayLight Scripture -Persia’s King Cyrus says: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has commanded me to build him a house at Jerusalem in Judah.

Ezra 1:2

DayLight Prayer – Lord, Today I pray for your Church. Let us who are your people be assured that your Church will never die, though it may change in form, tradition, or size. In Jesus we live and have our being. I am blessed to know that in you, I am and the Church is eternal. Amen.

DayLight Scripture – A joyful heart brightens one’s face, but a troubled heart breaks the spirit.

Proverbs 15:13

DayLight Prayer – Gracious Lord, Today I pray for people whose hearts are troubled. I know many of them, and many I do not.  Send your joyful Spirit to minster to the joyless and open their minds to possibility, wonder, and hope.  Amen.

DayLight Scripture – With God’s knowledge, the watery depths burst open, and the skies drop dew.

Proverbs 3:20

DayLight Prayer – Lord, I am amazed that even in the midst of your busyness, you know when the dew falls. How awesome! Let me  always remember the dew drops, so that I will recall that nothing that effects this earth is outside of your knowledge. Amen.

DayLight Scripture –  No temptation has seized you that isn’t common for people. But God is faithful. He won’t allow you to be tempted beyond your abilities. Instead, with the temptation, God will also supply a way out so that you will be able to endure it.

Corinthians 10:13

DayLight Prayer – Lord, stand by me when temptations assail me. Give me strength to be angry and not sin, to be hurt and not retaliate, be to embarrassed and not hate. Let your strong arm hold me back from my own injurious desires.  Amen.

DayLight Scripture – Who is wise? And who knows the meaning of anything? A person’s wisdom brightens the expression; it changes the hardness of someone’s face.

Ecclesiastes 8:1

DayLight Prayer – Wonderful Lord, I pray today for wisdom so that I can see the traps that evil sets before me. You know that I am blind to them most of the time. Help me to seek your council before I fall in. Amen.

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.