Prayer of the Day

Father, I need Your forgiveness. I am not here to explain myself or to make my case. I am here because I was wrong.

You know what I did. You know what I said, and how I said it. You know the things I should have done and didn't — the kindness withheld, the truth avoided, the person passed by.

I have carried this long enough to know I cannot wash it out myself. So I bring it into the light, where You are.

Forgive me, Lord. Not because I have earned it — I haven't — but because You are merciful, and because Jesus paid for the mercy I am asking for.

Make me clean. Make me new. Where I have hurt someone, give me the humility to say so to their face. And when the shame comes knocking tomorrow, remind me that You have already answered this prayer.

In Jesus' name, Amen.

Lord, give me sleep tonight — real rest, the kind You designed my body to need and my heart to receive.

Slow my breathing. Loosen my shoulders. Take the day's noise out of my ears.

You give sleep to those You love, so I'll stop trying to earn it and simply receive it.

Watch over me until morning.

In Jesus' name, Amen.