Prayer about suffering

Dear Lord,

You are good, wise, and all powerful

Even with being perfect in all those attributes it was impossible for you to create a world without intense suffering, pain, foolishness, and evil in them in which we would be free to make moral choices of significance.

You in all of your splendor had to endure the pain of our rebellion and the cross for our redemption.

You knew that in the end, our salvation, our union and communion with you, and the making of the kingdom would be worth the cost. But what a great cost.

Give me wisdom today to understand what suffering is all about.

Please help those who are suffering, enduring, struggling, and hurting.

Help me understand how the random accident is not random. That there is no pain without purpose.

It is a comfort believing all pain is significant but it is hard at times to see how.

Why is suffering a better road? Why are happy endings so few? The why is so hard and I guess I will not really know until I see you face to face.

But maybe I can know the what. What am I to learn because of the suffering and the pain that exists today? Please show me what I am to learn.

Forgive my sins.

For your glory and my good

In the righteousness of Messiah Jesus I pray

Amen

Prayer when feeling weak

Lord, I have become more and more aware of my weakness, sin, and foolishness.

I feel like a person playing in the super bowl of life whose skills are at the flag foot ball league in elementary school.

I should have more skills and wisdom, but somehow I fail to have them and I get sacked over and over again.

Lord have mercy on this sinner today.

Without your grace I have no hope at all.

But with your grace I can still hope

Thank you for your grace

Lord today make be wiser than I have been

Lord today make be more righteous than I have been

Lord help me adapt to the changes of life

Grant to me the ability to do what you have called me to do

Make up for my short comings with your great strength.

For your glory and my good do these things

Amen

Prayer of Adoration

Lord who made heaven and earth

You who are necessary for the Cosmos both in its creation and its preservation

You who designed all order and life

You who are reason, logic, and love all in one

I adore you.

I do not adore you the way I should. I confess my adoration is far less than what it should be. Yet, I do adore you and ask that my adoration for you grow. You are worhty of total adoration. If only I could get my vision of you right. Help me do that.

Help me with the fear that I enter into today with.

There are many things that need to be done and I am not sure I can do them all.

I will end today not getting everything done I should do or at least what I think I should do.

I wonder how you will look at this day. What things do you think I should do? Are they on my list?

Let me try to always have your list on my list. Ideally your list would be my list.

Help me in my weakness and give me grace to face my failures.

Give me comfort about what I have lost.

Let me see all you have given me.

Lord I adore you today for loving me more than I could ever hope.

In Jesus the Messiah's name I pray

Amen