Catch Us!

Let us pray together:

Eternal God, thank you for being the source of all beginnings and all endings. In the morning you cradle the world and in the evening you heal our wounds so we can fight another day; You are the morning dew and the evening mist; You are the early morning sun kissing the potential of a new day and you are the twilight whispering promises that are yet to come.

We sing of sorrows and laugh at mistakes; we dance in the rain and laugh at the wind; we dream of things yet to come and believe the things we hope for, the evidence of thing unseen.

When our faith falters and our hopes crash upon the craggy rocks of ambition, renew our strength; let us be caught into your loving arms when we faint and lifted up as we struggle to rise above circumstances that seek our demise. You are a great and mighty God who helps us to live above our circumstances.

It is in the name of Gratitude we pray, Amen.

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YOUR MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT PRAYER ASSIGNMENT:

Pray for those who by personality or profession are mediators. Pray for those who find themselves in a position to mediate and reconcile persons of opposing opinions. Grant them wisdom and courage!

Guiding Light

“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;

I will counsel you and watch over you.”

Psalm 32:8

Lord, we come to you today asking you to show us the way to go when it is hard to see the road ahead. Help us to know when you are guiding us and when we are holding on too long to wrong assumptions and answers. Show us the best way to follow your voice, how to wait until the time you choose to answer our prayers and how to move forward with confidence when the answer arrives.

Help us to be more like You. Help us in the midst of this uncertain season to be quick to love and slow to anger. Help us to love each other better beyond what we speak to what we do. In Jesus name, help us to choose wisely our actions today whether it is deciding to work or play, shop or study, sleep or start a project, leave or go, pray or procrastinate. Amen.

YOUR MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT PRAYER ASSIGNMENT: Today pray for all houses of worship and where the Word of God is preached and taught. As this is the AME Church Connectional Day of Prayer, pray for our Zion.

PRAYCATION LENT 2011 CONFERENCE CALL

Remember to call tomorrow, Thursday morning at 6 AM Central/ 7 AM Eastern for prayer, study and testimony for the Praycation Lent Prayer Conference Call. Just call 1-218-936-2800, access code 812713 and invite others to do the same!

Pray for Our Sons

God please keep your hand on our sons….

Jesus be a fence around them and keep them from hurt, harm or danger.

Help us as we build your young boys.

Give us the strength to nurture, love and encourage them.

Give us the character to be living examples of your risen son Jesus.

Give us patience.

Give us wisdom.

Give us discernment.

Give us your power.

Give us your grace.

Bless the work of our hands and make us prosperous.

Set our sons hearts on fire for you.

In Jesus Name, Amen.

Rev. Jay Gamble

www.lifechangeame.com

YOUR MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT PRAYER ASSIGNMENT:

Pray today for our sons. Pray for our sons by birth, blood, and spiritual or by choice. Pray for the sons in your home, church, on street corners and at school.

REMEMBER:

This is the Lenten season. Strive to increase your prayer time to three times daily - Morning, Noon and Night. Invite others to follow this prayer discipline. Strive to join the Daniel Fast. Information about the fast can be found at www.thisisyourwakeupcallonline.com in the Read Section archives on the home page. Read through the Bible in 90 days or one year. If you are following the one year plan, the Bible verses are on the right side of this blogs home page. If you haven't started, start now. If you started and stopped, try, try and try again!

The Work is all Divine

Father God,

Your work is all divine. I thank you for all the work you have done on me and through me. I truly desire to pursue my purpose to your honor and your glory. I thank you dear Lord that you know my heart, you know my desires, and you know your plans for my future.

I will keep on pressing to reach the place where you want me to be. I have made mistakes. I have done and said the wrong things at times in my life. I have gotten off track. I thank you that I can hear your voice when you call me back on track. I pray that all of the women of God will answer when you call them to their purpose.

I bless your name as I walk in the authority you have bestowed on me. I ask you God for your blessings, your guidance, and your supernatural power as I pursue my purpose in life. Grant me the clarity to recognize that you are preparing me to step into the fullness of my purpose. I pray that you grant me the steadfastness and the fortitude to not turn back.

Lord, please strengthen me in my weak places, heal me in my broken places, and deliver me from my sinful nature. Where there is fear Lord, I ask that you replace it with power, love, and a sound mind. Knowing the depth of your love for me, there is no way I want to cause you grief by being stubborn or disobedient.

I love you and I thank you for sending your best to me, Jesus the Christ. And so, I commit to giving my best to you. I commit myself to the building of your kingdom on earth as it is in Heaven. Lord, thank you for giving me a purpose. In Jesus’ name I say thank you.

In Jesus’ name I pray.

Amen.

This Reflective Prayer was taken from Chapter 1 of “Our Savior, Our Sisters, Ourselves” Biblical Teachings & Reflections on Women’s Relationships written by Rev. Dr. Jo Ann Browning, Co-Pastor of Ebenezer A.M.E. Church, Fort Washington, MD.

YOUR MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT PRAYER ASSIGNMENT

Pray today for those who must make critical decisions that could change their future and/or the future of a community, culture or country.

Hot And Fresh!

Let us prayer together:

Gracious Lord and lover of my soul,

Let hope so infuse my life that all I am, all I think, and all I do is a testimony to your power in my life. Help us to stop long enough to smell the flowers and then give flowers to the unsung heroes who don't have a reality television show, a book deal or a street named after them.

Let us face the challenges of the day discerning your guiding hand; Let us face the world's problems or those just in our neighborhood with a fresh vision, passion, energy and the perspective of the one who knows that you are the hope of the world. For in this hope we are saved.

In Jesus name, Amen

Romans 8: 18-25

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YOUR MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT PRAYER ASSIGNMENT:

Pray today for those who work to clean up after other people. Pray for custodians, housekeepers, maids, butlers, janitors, garbage collectors and others.

OPEN DOORS

Let us pray together:

Lord, I am waiting on the Season of The Open Door. As I wait
I cast all of my cares on you

For I know you care for me
My Ears are open
My Heart is receptive
As I wait…
Straining to hear your “YES”
Knowing that it is coming
For I know—and believe--that
You have a good plan for me
Not to harm me
But to give me a future
And a hope.
So here I am Lord
Searching
Knocking
Asking
Savoring
the great expectation
of Your good gift
for me.
I live in trust
Walk by faith
It is…
ENOUGH.

Inspired by: Luke 11:5-13 (NRSV)
Rev. Yolanda D. Lehman
Publisher, Ainta That Good News?!: A daily online Christian devotional that makes Good News easy to read and fun to share! © 2009
http://aintathatgoodnews.blogspot.com/

MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT PRAYER

Your Morning, Noon and Night Prayer Assignment for Saturday, April 2nd: Pray today that the Lord will show you the beauty of waiting upon the Lord so that you can move forward in full strength. Pray for those who need to learn how to wait patiently.

“But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength…” Isaiah 40: 31

Singing In The Rain

Let us pray together:

Thank you Lord for being all beginnings and all endings. In the morning you cradle the world and in the evening you heal our wounds so we can fight another day; You are the morning dew and the evening mist; You are the early morning sun kissing the potential of a new day and you are the twilight whispering promises yet to come.

We sing of sorrows and laugh at mistakes; we dance in the rain and laugh at the wind; we dream of things yet to come and believe the things we hope for, the evidence of thing unseen.

When our faith falters and our hopes crash upon the craggy rocks of ambition, renew our strength; let us be caught into your loving arms when we faint and lifted up as we struggle to rise above circumstances that seek our demise. You are a great and mighty God who helps us to live above our circumstances.

It is in the name of Gratitude we pray, Amen.

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MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT PRAYER ASSIGNMENT

Pray today that love with guide and shape your conversations.

Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. Ephesians 4: 15

PRAYCATION LENT 2011 CONFERENCE CALL ON THURSDAY

Remember that the Praycation Conference call is this morning, Thursday, March 31st at 6 AM Central/ 7 AM Eastern. Call 1-218-936-2800, access code 812713. It is our time of prayer and study. Join us and invite others to do the same. You can also click on the follower’s icon on the right side of the home page to receive new prayers when they are posted in your email inbox.

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Open Eye Thanksgiving

"O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good; for his loving-kindness endures forever."

Psalm 118:29

Open our eyes today to see all that we should be thankful for even if at the present moment our problems, pain or need might lead us to believe that we have no thanksgiving. Open our eyes to your unfailing goodness. Help us to see that you are working behind the scenes of our lives to usher us into a season of restoration and reconciliation... and for this, we are thankful. Enter our hearts and clear away anything that prevents an attitude of gratitude.

With eyes wide open we see that we have been blessed with every spiritual blessing. Every good and perfect gift has graciously come from your hand. Thank you Lord, for all you have done for us. In Jesus Name, Amen.

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MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT PRAYER ASSIGNMENT:

Pray today for your enemies, those who curse you and those who persecute you.

But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which spitefully use you, and persecute you;

Matthew 5: 44

On the Road Again

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope that I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and will never leave me to face my perils alone.

Prayer of Thomas Merton

MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT PRAYER ASSIGNMENT:

Pray today that signs and wonders will follow the preached Word of God!

Call And Response

“I love he Lord, because he heard my voice and my supplications. Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I love.

Psalm 116: 1-2

We stop long enough today to remember that you have been kind enough to hear our voices lifted in prayer and petition. At times our voices were amazed at the unprecedented opportunities you sent in our direction. Our voices were sometimes filled with awe and wonder as we considered your great majesty. Our voices were angry because of some difficulty and you responded with patience.

We praise you, Maker and Ruler of all, for your listening ear. Forgive us when we called on others before we called you. Grant us this day to no only call but spend time in your presence listening for Your still small voice whispering the mysteries of the universe.

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MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT PRAYER ASSIGNMENT:

Your prayer assignment today is to pray for caregivers. Pray for those who see to the needs of ailing loved ones or those with diminished capacity at home.

On Guard!

“He guards you when you leave and when you return, he guards you now, he guards you always.”

Psalm 121: 8

Great God of Creation, call us today to a greater devotion to love and serve you.

Help us to turn away from impulses that dishonor your glory.

Help us to resist the temptations that distract us from our spiritual disciplines.

Help us to deny the fear that if we give what we have we will have less.

Help us to discern that by giving we shall receive more.

Help us to discover a richer faith that holds up under pressure, high gasoline prices, unemployment, and deployment, mortgage and nuclear reactor meltdowns, polluted water and soil, infants, adolescents and aging parents.

Let each step taken today lead us to know that we are preserved by You, accompanied by You, ruled by You, and guarded by You, now and forever more, in Jesus name, Amen.

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MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT PRAYER ASSIGNMENT

Today pray for your co-workers. Pray for those who share responsibilities with you to achieve goals at work. Pray for their health, safety and wellbeing.

Enough is Enough

“You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north,”

Deuteronomy 2: 3

Awaken us, to this new day of opportunity. We confess that we have become complacent walking around our mountain of challenges and change. We have made the wilderness a comfort zone. We have made honest labor and its rewards our security blanket. We have become so obsessed with evil in high places that we no longer recognize it in all places. Forgive us when we’ve allowed the madness of the rich and famous to control our viewing habits and influence the definition of success.

Awaken us O God. We have been marking time in this border country long enough. You are calling us forward to possess the land of your promise. Help us today to dream new dreams, discover and mobilize overlooked resources, stir up the spiritual gifts within us, and show us the way forward.

In Jesus name, we pray for one another along this journey. Help those whose faith has faltered or for whom trust is a distant memory. We pray that the strength of your love will transcend the brokenness of body, mind and spirit. Amen

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MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT

Join in prayer three times today in the morning, in the middle of the day and at night. As we touch and agree in prayer, we believe that God will hear and honor our prayer. Today your Morning, Noon and Night prayer assignment is to pray for those who are far away from home. Pray for those serving in harms way in strange and unfamiliar lands.

PRAYCATION LENT 2011 CONFERENCE CALL

Remember to call in early this morning, Thursday, at 6 AM Central/ 7 AM Eastern for prayer and study. Call 1-218-936-2800, access code 812713

Seek and Ye Shall Find

Early we seek you this morning to pause in your presence; to breath out impurities and breath in whatsoever is kind, good, and lovely, to think on these things before the intrusion of whatsoever is deep, dark and real.

Strengthen us for the journey ahead; equip us to stand before our adversaries as we humble ourselves before you.

Lift us up to live the abundant life you came to give us and help us to lift others, the lonely, least and left out so that they may have a vision beyond what their eyes can see to what is promised in Your word.

In the name recognized in heaven, earth and hell, Amen.
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MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT

Pray for those who must beg for food today. Pray for those who beg for food at traffic stops, dig in dumpsters, or ask friends or neighbors for food.

PRAYCATION LENT 2011 CONFERENCE CALL ON THURSDAY

Remember that the Praycation Conference call is tomorrow, Thursday, March 24th at 6 AM Central/ 7 AM Eastern. Call 1-218-936-2800, access code 812713. It is our time of prayer and study. Join us and invite others to do the same. You can also click on the followers icon on the right side of the home page to receive new prayers when they are posted in your email inbox.

Being with God

Let us pray this personal petition together:

O God, I rejoice today that I can spend time just being with you. No matter how much I love those you placed in my life, I love being alone in your presence for this moment. Let me fall into your arms, again. Let me taste and see that you are good, again. Let me drink deeply from your refreshing pools of living water, again. Feed me, O bread of heaven until I want no more.
Keeping company with you, the source of all wisdom, knowledge and power, leads to a greater revelation beyond human achievement.
Tutor my spirit, when I need to be challenged
Assure my heart when fear seeks to overtake my faith; and
Satisfy our hunger for certainty and control.

Just being with you helps us to entrust our lives to you more and more each day realizing that you are closer to us than we are to ourselves.
In Jesus name,
Amen
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MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT

Your prayer assignment for today: Pray for people who are estranged from each other. Pray for reconciliation for family members and friends.

What About the Children?

O sing unto the Lord a new song, sing unto the Lord, all the earth. Psalm 96:1

Let's sing a song today filled with the melodies of faith not fear and hope not harassment.

Today, we lift our voices for the young. Lord, help them as they aspire to make this a better world. We lift our voices for our sons and daughters. We pray that their zeal and idealism will be nurtured towards responsible action. We pray for the mature. Our prayer is that they fulfill their purpose in the uniqueness of their personalities and responsibilities. We pray for those who need sustenance and provision. We pray for those who cannot grow beyond sorrow and for the sick in body, mind or spirit that they may prosper and be in good health according to your word.

Yes, let us continue to sing new songs, filled with praise and thanksgiving!

In the name of Jesus, Amen

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MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT

Your Morning, Noon and Night Prayer assignment for today: Pray for children all over the world. Pray that they will have a safe place to live, nourishing food, fresh water, clothes to protect the body, health care and an education to prepare them for leadership.

PRAYCATION LENT 2011

Conference call on Thursdays at 6 AM Central/7 AM Eastern time. Call 1-218-936-2800 access code 812713. Join us for prayer and study.

You Have Not Because You Ask Not

"You want what you don't have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can't get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don't have what you want because you don't ask God for it."

James 4:2

Lord, forgive us for being so busy we fail to ask you for what we want and need. Forgive us for depending upon human effort and strength to obtain the desires of our hearts. Forgive us for developing schemes to undermine the efforts of others because we want to take their place or we want what they have. Forgive us for coveting our neighbors stuff to point where we are willing to do emotional or bodily harm to take it away from them. Thank you Lord, that after we have confessed you are faithful to forgive.

We come humbly now knowing you are the supplier of all our needs. We come repentant realizing that you are the one who grants us the desires of our hearts. We come to you now remembering that you are the source of every good a perfect gift. We ask now in Jesus name that we may be empowered to bring forth fruit for your glory and not for our self-satisfaction. In Jesus name, Amen.

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MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT

During this season of Lent, you are encouraged to increase your prayer time and join the Daniel Fact. Information about he Daniel Fast is found at www.thisisyourwakeupcallonline.com in the Read Section archives on the home page. As Daniel prayed three times daily in the face of great opposition, so we are praying morning, noon and night.

Your prayer assignment today is to pray for nuclear and environmental scientists and ecologists today who impact all of creation.

PRAYER BANS

One way to remind us to pray three times daily is by wearing a purple "prayer ban" with Morning, Noon and Night and Daniel 9:3 written on it. You can order them 5 for $7.00 and 10 for $14.00. Send check or money order to Praycation, 500 8th Avenue South Suite 201, Nashville, Tennessee 37203. You can always email us at praycation2@gmail.com for more information.

We Need You Now!

Gracious God, Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We need you. We need you in our homes. We need you in our schools, we need you at our jobs. We need you in our neighborhoods. We need you in our relationships. We need you in our churches. We need you on our military bases.

Lord, we need you to come into our lives and reign over us and through us. We have not been who you have called us to be. We have become anxious and we are even becoming weary in well doing. Lord, we need more than mere words can say. Lord we need healing in our nation and in our world, in our bodies and in our minds. Lord, we need peace that surpassess all our understanding. Lord, still our hearts, ease our troubled minds and instill in us your righteousness that our living will not be in vain.

Teach us what it means to comfort and show compassion to our neighbor. Instill in us a new walk and a new talk that we are able to effectively articulate your power through our actions.
In the name of Jesus we pray.

Toni Belin Ingram

Atlanta, Georgia

MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT

Your Morning, Noon and Night prayer assignment for Wednesday, March 15, 2011: Pray for those who choose violence as a strategy to solve disagreements on the battlefield of human interaction.

One Day At A Time

Gracious Lord, help us to live one day at a time with a fresh plan of fulfillment. Help us to reflect upon your will and your Word in everything that we do today and then act upon what we have learned. Let others see Jesus in our lives as we strive to live, serve and tell others about our Lord.

Empower us to act on your divine ideas that we receive in moments of prayer and inspiration. Send these through wholesome, positive thoughts, so they won't get lost in the the uncertainty of the times. Help us to use creative thinking to build upon divine ideas as our activities become more dynamic and our abilities are enhanced. Therefore, we enter this new day with optimism, joy and enthusiasm. In Jesus name, Amen.

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This is your Morning, Noon and Night prayer assignment for Tuesday, March 15, 2011: Pray for those who exercise leadership over us so that we can live in peace!

Counting on God

“I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.

Romans 7: 15

O God, we come today confessing that we can count on you more than you can count on us. We can count on you to deal with us according to your mercy and not according to our sins. We can count on you to forgive after confession. We can count on you to be with us, never leaving nor forsaking us even when we tend to stray like sheep.

Forgive us O God because no matter how hard we try, we do what we don’t want to do and don’t do what we should. We truly and earnestly repent of our sins and are heartily sorrow for these our transgressions. Renew right spirits. Create clean hearts.

Enable us to move beyond our past sins and embrace the future with renewed hope and confidence. We give ourselves to you again. In Jesus name, clothe us in your light, for we would be children of light. Amen

MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT

This is your Morning, Noon and Night prayer assignment for Monday, March 14, 2011: Pray, Lord change me.

Early Will I Seek Thee

"O God, Thou art my God. Early will I seek thee…"

Psalm 63:1

O God, I come to you in the darkness of the morning
I come just as I am starting to hear the birds singing praise to you
I come before the phone starts to ring, before messages are texted or tweeted
I come to You, O God, before the flood of emails and voicemails
I come before I remember tasks left undone from yesterday
I come before the uncertainty of tomorrow becomes fear
I come before I try to live out my own plan
I come before temptation ripens
I come to You, O God, before competing voices can influence
I come before I can mistake my thoughts for Your voice
I come before I can remember all I want from you and all I want you to do for me
I come, early in this morning, to say I love You and I thank You for loving me
Thank you for giving me this day – now, I give it back to you: live today in me live through me love through me bless through me empower through me rescue through me give joy through me O God, I come to you in the darkness of the morning, like Jesus did, to make your will my will.
In His name, AMEN
Roderick Dwayne Belin

www.ibelin.me

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Saturday, March 12, 2011

"Be patient, therefore beloved, until the coming of the Lord."

James 5: 7

Today, pray for those who are waiting for an answer.

Sunday, March 13, 21011

"...Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison..."

Matthew 25: 44

Today, pray for those who are in prison and waiting for someone to visit.