Dear God,

I love you and thank you for the forgiveness and grace you have given me. I sin every day, and I am weak when it comes to specific temptations. With your help I am becoming stronger. I thank you, Holy Spirit, for strengthening me throughout my days.

Thanks for your word, dear God. I see my need for it every day. Thanks also that I get to pray to you in venues such as this one, as well as many others.

Lord, I pray to love myself as you love me. I know that when I pick and cut at myself, I'm being destructive with what you've deemed as wonderful in your sight. Help me to find constructive ways of dealing with stress, anxiety, and the like, which impel me toward such behaviors.

I pray for my family to be dead-set on glorifying you. I want to obey you, and I realize that I've used way too many excuses for not living the life you've called me to live. I will hold to the promise that "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."

Lord, I love you and thank you once more for this opportunity to pray to you. Thank you for letting me be your son.

Love,
Danny

Dear God,

I need to pray to you right now. I feel a whole lot of anxiety welling up inside me. My wife and I are not communicating about important stuff like finances. I am scheduled to work this Sunday, and so is Jennie. No one will be around to watch Keisha. Also, it's the only day I'm scheduled to work this week. I don't like that I was scheduled to work on the same day as church; I really enjoy the fellowship.

I feel like I've blown it again in my relationship with you. Last week I had a birthday moment, and I was feeling that things were going great. Yet I can tell that Satan is right in front of me, accusing me before you, showing you all of my wrongs. I am so tempted to be discouraged and overwhelmed as I see them, and to believe that there's no hope.

I don't like the lack of fruit in my life; other people becoming Christians. I hurt that my wife is not close to you like she once was. I hurt that my daughter is seeing this. I sometimes feel like it's so hard to be spiritual around the rest of my family. I honestly feel fearful and not confident.

I hurt in my heart because the weather's changing. The shorter days... I'm feeling depressed because of them. I feel sad because I feel like my life has no direction. I'm having a hard time seeing anything positive about the near future.

God, tears are welling up in my eyes as I consider how much we've lost these past couple years: job, car, house. My mom... I miss her so much.

I pray to you right now to rid my heart of the anxiety and pain, and so that I won't give in to the self-destructive tendencies I have been prone to. Lord, I want to be free from the need to cut myself.

Please refresh me through your word. Help me to see your wonderful promises; yes, let them lighten my heart and renew my spirit.

God, I miss not talking with and being around brothers and sisters. I hunger for deeper relationships, and I pray that others would reach out to me even as I reach out to them.

I know that my wife and I, that our marriage... I was just thinking that it's been so long since we've been on a date together. I feel that there is a bunch of stuff that Jennie has on her chest that's just going to come out sometime soon. Lord, please free me from the anxiety. Make me into a man that is wild at heart, passionate for you once more.

Thank you, Jesus, as we are approaching the time that the world celebrates your birth. I am so grateful for that time, and I pray to have joy, not cynicism, in my heart. I pray not to get caught up in the materialism of the season, but to really consider how I can give and love others. Help me to see the abundance in my life instead of all that I don't have.

Lord, I am glad that I can even pray to you right now. I'm feeling better already.

Love, you son,
Danny

Dear Awesome God,

I praise you for all of your promises, and I want to trust you. Please forgive me for all the instances that I do not trust in you. I want to change.

Lord Jesus, I pray for my wife Jennie. Her heart is not one that is really set on seeking you right now. I see how far she has turned away from you in her heart. Please help me to be what I need to be for her, and please cut her heart so that she wil want to repent. I pray that she will turn her heart back to you and seek after you with all of her heart.

God, please help me to repent of selfishness, worldliness, and the general lack of love I feel for those around me. I really see that I, too, have turned away from you. I want to change, and I know that you can help me to change.

Thank you so much that I can pray to you whenever I need to.

I pray about our household finances; you know that they are a mess. Help me to be humble and seek help from others. Lord, give me the desire to please you in this area.

I love you, and I thank you for hearing my prayer.

In Jesus, your son's name,
Amen

Dear Lord,

12 years ago today, the blood of your Son Jesus washed away my sins. Thanks!