Daily Prayer for May 22
I will declare your name to my brothers; in the congregation I will praise you. Psalm 22:22, NIV Lord our God, Almighty Father in heaven, we stand before you as your children, whom you want to protect through the need of our time, through all sin and death. We praise you for giving us so much peace in an age full of trouble, and for granting us the assurance of your help. Even when we suffer, we do not want to remain in the darkness of suffering but want to rise up to praise and glorify you. For your kingdom is coming; it is already at hand. Your kingdom comforts and helps us and points the way for the whole world, that your will may be done on earth as in heaven. Amen. Recent articles on Plough Everyone Belongs to God Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove The hope of the world does not rest on our ability to recruit others into a religion. Read now PloughCast 82: Regenerative Agriculture in the Lake District James Rebanks, Helen Rebanks, Peter Mommsen and Susannah Black Roberts Bestselling authors James and Helen Rebanks talk about raising sheep and cattle – and a family – in the Lake District. Read now The Penderwick Family Honor Jeff Reimer Jeanne Birdsall’s Penderwick novels probe the tension between happiness and loss. Read now Nature Is Obsessed with Me Annemarie Konzelman Spiders, wasps, and mold – they’re my neighbors, but can I love them? Read now The Mystery of the Early Church Eberhard Arnold An early Plough article looks at the implications of what happened at Pentecost. Read now
Daily Prayer for May 21
I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” Romans 1:16-17, NIV Lord our God, you have revealed your righteousness to us in the gospel, your righteousness that comes to us through faith and continues in faith. Grant that we may understand your righteousness and live by it even in a crooked generation. Then to our joy the gospel will bear fruit. Protect us in the midst of temptation and conflicting opinions so that we are raised above them and remain free, with our thoughts on you and your true and loving righteousness. Your righteousness gives us hope for the many, many people who still need help to realize that their lives are not of passing value but of eternal worth. Amen. Recent articles on Plough PloughCast 82: Regenerative Agriculture in the Lake District James Rebanks, Helen Rebanks, Peter Mommsen and Susannah Black Roberts Bestselling authors James and Helen Rebanks talk about raising sheep and cattle – and a family – in the Lake District. Read now The Penderwick Family Honor Jeff Reimer Jeanne Birdsall’s Penderwick novels probe the tension between happiness and loss. Read now Nature Is Obsessed with Me Annemarie Konzelman Spiders, wasps, and mold – they’re my neighbors, but can I love them? Read now The Mystery of the Early Church Eberhard Arnold An early Plough article looks at the implications of what happened at Pentecost. Read now Earthworks Urban Farm Casey Kleczek At a community garden in Detroit, kids grow food to supply a soup kitchen. Read now
Daily Prayer for May 20
Such prayer is right, and approved by God our Saviour, whose will it is that all men should find salvation and come to know the truth. 1 Timothy 2:3-4, NEB Lord our God, give us your Spirit, we pray, that we may learn to understand what we are and what tasks you have set for us. We thank you for all the light you give us. Grant that we and many others may come closer to knowledge of the truth and be at peace about all that belongs in your hands, our Father in heaven. Keep us now and forevermore in your almighty hand. May we know your goodness and the blessing it brings. For through your goodness we can endure even the hardest days and be victorious in the battle of life. Amen. Recent articles on Plough The Penderwick Family Honor Jeff Reimer Jeannie Birdsall’s Penderwick novels probe the tension between happiness and loss. Read now Nature Is Obsessed with Me Annemarie Konzelman Spiders, wasps, and mold – they’re my neighbors, but can I love them? Read now The Mystery of the Early Church Eberhard Arnold An early Plough article looks at the implications of what happened at Pentecost. Read now Earthworks Urban Farm Casey Kleczek At a community garden in Detroit, kids grow food to supply a soup kitchen. Read now Hummingbirds Are Wondrous Zito Madu Everyone who has admired the hummingbird has one particular bird in mind. My hummingbird came to me in Los Angeles four years ago. Read now
Daily Prayer for May 19
I love you, Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. Psalm 18:1-2, NIV Lord our God, we thank you that we have often felt you close to us. We thank you that you are near us and that you strengthen the weak. Remember us and give each one the help he needs to be true to his calling. Remember all humankind and grant that we may go forward in spirit and in truth. Give new light to the peoples who are still in great darkness. Let your kingdom and your reign be revealed and your name at last be honored by all. Amen. Recent articles on Plough Nature Is Obsessed with Me Annemarie Konzelman Spiders, wasps, and mold – they’re my neighbors, but can I love them? Read now The Mystery of the Early Church Eberhard Arnold An early Plough article looks at the implications of what happened at Pentecost. Read now Earthworks Urban Farm Casey Kleczek At a community garden in Detroit, kids grow food to supply a soup kitchen. Read now Hummingbirds Are Wondrous Zito Madu Everyone who has admired the hummingbird has one particular bird in mind. My hummingbird came to me in Los Angeles four years ago. Read now Refugee Letters Emmy Barth Maendel At the height of World War II, three women flee Europe with their community for a pioneer life in South America. Read now
Daily Prayer for May 18
And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs – heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. Romans 8:15b–17, NIV Lord our God, Father of us all, grant that we may know something of you in our hearts. Each one of us is different, with his own particular needs, but we are all your children and should all become children of your Spirit. Then even in the difficulties of life, in the many struggles, temptations, and sorrows, we can keep up our courage and remain in the Spirit, who is victorious in every aspect of life. Protect and strengthen us on all our ways. We praise you for all you have done and for all the help you have given us. Amen. Recent articles on Plough The Mystery of the Early Church Eberhard Arnold An early Plough article looks at the implications of what happened at Pentecost. Read now Earthworks Urban Farm Casey Kleczek At a community garden in Detroit, kids grow food to supply a soup kitchen. Read now Hummingbirds Are Wondrous Zito Madu Everyone who has admired the hummingbird has one particular bird in mind. My hummingbird came to me in Los Angeles four years ago. Read now Refugee Letters Emmy Barth Maendel At the height of World War II, three women flee Europe with their community for a pioneer life in South America. Read now Tim Keller: New York’s Pastor Susannah Black Roberts The quintessential Manhattan pastor held the door open to everyone. Read now
Daily Prayer for May 17
Let us, then, hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we have a great High Priest who has gone into the very presence of God – Jesus, the Son of God. Our High Priest is not one who cannot feel sympathy for our weaknesses. On the contrary, we have a High Priest who was tempted in every way that we are, but did not sin. Hebrews 4:14-15, TEV Dear Father in heaven, we look to Jesus Christ, who is at your right hand, through whom you have promised help for the whole world. Unite us with him so that we may receive authority to help all people according to your will. May your name be kept holy among us, for your children have every reason to rejoice in the Savior you have given them. We thank you for everything you have shown to those who believe in you. We pray to you, hasten the time when your day shall come with glory, the day when you will give the glory to Jesus Christ, when he will reign and triumph over all evil and bring the peace you have always wanted to give the world. We wait and long for this. Amen. Recent articles on Plough Earthworks Urban Farm Casey Kleczek At a community garden in Detroit, kids grow food to supply a soup kitchen. Read now Hummingbirds Are Wondrous Zito Madu Everyone who has admired the hummingbird has one particular bird in mind. My hummingbird came to me in Los Angeles four years ago. Read now Refugee Letters Emmy Barth Maendel At the height of World War II, three women flee Europe with their community for a pioneer life in South America. Read now Tim Keller: New York’s Pastor Susannah Black Roberts The quintessential Manhattan pastor held the door open to everyone. Read now Sell Me Marriage Daniel N. Gullotta Brad Wilcox makes the case for marriage in his new book Get Married. Read now
Daily Prayer for May 16
Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. John 17:3, NIV Lord God, we thank you that you have revealed life in Jesus Christ. Grant that we may enter this life through the grace you have given us to recognize Jesus Christ as our Lord, to believe in him, and to hope for all the good still to come as the fruit of his suffering and resurrection. May the glory of the Living One be revealed to the dead throughout the whole world so that even the dead and the unbelieving may be awakened and see his life. Keep us true to what you have given us. Strengthen our faith and endurance in all our trials. Let your name soon be honored among all people so that hatred may cease and the coming of your great day may be foretold in changed hearts and changed thoughts. Protect us this night. Bless us and help us again and again as you have promised. Amen. Recent articles on Plough Hummingbirds Are Wondrous Zito Madu Everyone who has admired the hummingbird has one particular bird in mind. My hummingbird came to me in Los Angeles four years ago. Read now Refugee Letters Emmy Barth Maendel At the height of World War II, three women flee Europe with their community for a pioneer life in South America. Read now Tim Keller: New York’s Pastor Susannah Black Roberts The quintessential Manhattan pastor held the door open to everyone. Read now Sell Me Marriage Daniel N. Gullotta Brad Wilcox makes the case for marriage in his new book Get Married. Read now When Our Walls Fall Dwight Lindley We hide our true selves from the world. But sometimes the façade collapses. Read now
Daily Prayer for May 15
Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Psalm 100:3, NIV Father in heaven, may we recognize and acknowledge that you are God. You have made us, and not we ourselves, to be your people and the sheep of your pasture. Baptize us with the truth we need throughout our lives. Give us the gift to discern who we are and what we should become. Free our eyes from all deception so that we can no longer delude ourselves with short-lived, earthly things. Clear our eyes to see what is eternal in and around us. Make us children, true children, who awake to exult and rejoice in what is childlike and who give thanks to you, O God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Recent articles on Plough Refugee Letters Emmy Barth Maendel At the height of World War II, three women flee Europe with their community for a pioneer life in South America. Read now Tim Keller: New York’s Pastor Susannah Black Roberts The quintessential Manhattan pastor held the door open to everyone. Read now Sell Me Marriage Daniel N. Gullotta Brad Wilcox makes the case for marriage in his new book Get Married. Read now When Our Walls Fall Dwight Lindley We hide our true selves from the world. But sometimes the façade collapses. Read now The Chocolate Ice Cream Clarice Lispector In two vignettes, a mother delights in her son’s joy and remembers her own childhood happiness. Read now
Daily Prayer for May 14
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Romans 5:1-2, NIV Lord our God, almighty and holy One, whose glory shines upon the earth so that we may find joy in you and may live rejoicing in all your loving-kindness, spread out your hands in blessing over all people. Spread your blessing over the happy and the sad, over the courageous and the weak. Shepherd them in your love, in the great grace you have given through Jesus Christ, confirmed in us through the Holy Spirit. Do not let us remain degraded and worthless. Lift our hearts above what is transitory, for you have given us something eternal to live by. Help us every day so that we can reach the goal you have set for us, for many others, and finally for all peoples of the earth. Amen. Recent articles on Plough Sell Me Marriage Daniel N. Gullotta Brad Wilcox makes the case for marriage in his new book Get Married. Read now When Our Walls Fall Dwight Lindley We hide our true selves from the world. But sometimes the façade collapses. Read now The Chocolate Ice Cream Clarice Lispector In two vignettes, a mother delights in her son’s joy and remembers her own childhood happiness. Read now GEDs for Myanmar Migrants Rebecca Newton Partners Relief & Development is working to establish a new educational program in Thailand. Read now The Wardens and the Poachers Kevin LaTorre A shared love of North Carolina’s wild places and game animals unites hunters and law enforcement, leading to successful conservation. Read now
Daily Prayer for May 12
Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.” John 14:23, NIV Lord our God, we thank you that we can be children of your Spirit. We thank you that because you have called us, we receive eternal gifts that enable us to stand firm even when many sorrows and burdens weigh us down. For you are our life, and in all the darkness, even that of death, you give us light and strength and joyful hope. Keep these alive in us. May an ever brighter light shine on all that you have already put into our hearts, on all that draws us daily to you. Amen. Recent articles on Plough When Our Walls Fall Dwight Lindley We hide our true selves from the world. But sometimes the façade collapses. Read now The Chocolate Ice Cream Clarice Lispector In two vignettes, a mother delights in her son’s joy and remembers her own childhood happiness. Read now GEDs for Myanmar Migrants Rebecca Newton Partners Relief & Development is working to establish a new educational program in Thailand. Read now The Wardens and the Poachers Kevin LaTorre A shared love of North Carolina’s wild places and game animals unites hunters and law enforcement, leading to successful conservation. Read now When the Lord Ascends Adrienne von Speyr With the Ascension, a connection is torn asunder and our souls are freed – a freedom whose source is the ascending Son, a freedom toward God. Read now