Prayer of the Day

Father, thank You for this new job. I asked, You opened the door, and tomorrow I walk through it.

Calm my first-day jitters — the new badge, the new names, the new coffee machine I won't know how to work.

Help me learn fast and ask questions without shame. Give me favor with my new coworkers and patience with myself while everything is still unfamiliar.

Let me become, in time, the person there that others are glad to see walk in.

This job was Your gift, Lord. Help me treat it that way.

In Jesus' name, Amen.

Lord, be with me tonight.

The day took more than I expected, and I'm coming to You with what's left of me — which isn't much. You've never asked for more than that.

Whatever tonight holds — quiet or chaos, a full house or an empty one — be in it with me.

Guard my home while the lights go out. Guard the people I love, near and far, under whatever roof they're sleeping tonight.

Take tonight's worries — the ones about tomorrow, the ones about money, the ones about people — and hold them until morning. If they still matter then, we'll talk. Most of them won't.

Give me peace tonight, Lord. Not because everything is settled, but because You are here, and You are good, and You'll still be both when the sun comes up.

In Jesus' name, Amen.