Cultivate Prayer

FOCUS Psalm 40:6, MSG: Doing something for you, bringing something to you, that’s not what you’re after. Being religious, acting pious that’s not what you’re asking for. You’ve opened my ears so I can listen. ADORATION Psalm 38:15-16, MSG: What I do, God, is wait for you, wait for my Lord, my God you will answer! I wait and pray

FOCUS 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 NIV: He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties.

FOCUS 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, NIV: Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since

FOCUS Psalm 33:18-19, MSG: Watch this: God’s eye is on those who respect him, the ones who are looking for his love. He’s ready to come to their rescue in bad times; in lean times he keeps body and soul together. ADORATION Luke 1:30-33, MSG: Mary, you have nothing to fear. God has a surprise for you: You will become

FOCUS 2 Corinthians 1:5: NLT: For the more we suffer for Christ, the more God will shower us with his comfort through Christ. ADORATION 2 Corinthians 1:3-4: NLT: All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. He comforts us in all our troubles so that we

Feeling distracted, lost your focus, in need of help or rescue? Take this to heart. FOCUS 2 Samuel 22:47-49, NLT: 47 “The Lord lives! Praise to my Rock! May God, the Rock of my salvation, be exalted! 48 He is the God who pays back those who harm me; he brings down the nations under me 49 and delivers me

FOCUS Nehemiah 1:3-4, NLT: They said to me, “Things are not going well for those who returned to the province of Judah. They are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem has been torn down, and the gates have been destroyed by fire.” When I heard this, I sat down and wept. In fact, for days I mourned,

FOCUS Luke 19:41-44, NLT: Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem – But as they came closer to Jerusalem and Jesus saw the city ahead, he began to weep. “How I wish today that you of all people would understand the way to peace. But now it is too late, and peace is hidden from your eyes. Before long your enemies will build

FOCUS Psalm 22:30-31, MSG: Our children and their children will get in on this as the word is passed along from parent to child. Babies not yet conceived will hear the good news that God does what he says. ADORATION Psalm 22:23-24, MSG: Shout Hallelujah, you God-worshipers; give glory, you sons of Jacob; adore him, you daughters of Israel. He

FOCUS Matthew 23:1-3, MSG: Now Jesus turned to address his disciples, along with the crowd that had gathered with them. The religion scholars and Pharisees are competent teachers in God’s Law. You won’t go wrong in following their teachings on Moses. But be careful about following them. They talk a good line, but they don’t live it. They don’t take