Prayer focus from Romans 12:12 "Lord, help us to always turn to you in every circumstance, in our hopeful rejoicing, in our trying times, knowing that you are working all things to the good of us whom you love."
1 1 Peter 3: 17-18 NASB “For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong. For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit. . .” Father God, You provided in Jesus the ultimate example of how we should live. Doing right does not always guarantee that the world will recognize the rightness of our decisions and actions. Grant us courage to do right when the consequences go counter to what we think we deserve. Lord God, You are our Sovereign God, Lord of all things!
2. Matthew 10: 19-20 NASB “But when they hand you over, do not worry about how or what you are to say; for it will be given you in that hour what you are to say. For it is not you who speak, but it is the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.” Father God, these words of Jesus give us courage to speak or remain silent according to what You, Holy Spirit, tell us to do. How good to realize that our lives are in Your hands, Your words in our mouths and Your peace in our hearts.
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