P.R.A.Y

PAUSE

REJOICE & REFLECT

ASK

YIELD

Personal Worship

We close the week by finishing out Psalm 3.

Together we will pray (P.R.A.Y.) each day – ‘P’: Pausing to be still as we come into the presence of the Lord. ‘R’: Rejoicing as we remember who our God is and what He has done, and Reflecting on His word. ‘A’: Asking God to help us and others. And ‘Y’: yielding to His will in accordance with His word.

Pause

As I come before you to pray, I still my thoughts and quiet my mind. I seek to make you the center of my focus.

Prayer of Approach

Lord, as I enter into this time today, would you allow me to lay down all fears, worries, and anxieties at your feet? Allow me to set this time apart as a space to meet with the God who created all things and loves me personally. Fill me with your Spirit and give me eyes to see what you have for me in your Scripture today.

Rejoice and Reflect

I choose to rejoice, with all God’s people, in the powerful promise that God gives us in Romans 8…

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:27-29

As you read the passages below, ask the Lord to cause a word or phrase to stand out to you.

I lay down and slept;
I woke again, for the Lord sustained me.
I will not be afraid of many thousands of people
who have set themselves against me all around.
Arise, O Lord!
Save me, O my God!
For you strike all my enemies on the cheek;
you break the teeth of the wicked.
Salvation belongs to the Lord;
your blessing be on your people!

Psalm 3:5-8

As I reread the passage, I reflect on the questions, “How is my life touched by this word?” and “How does this passage connect with my life?”

Psalm 3:5-8

David’s trust in the Lord brings rest and not anxiety. He believes and lives out the truth that he can fall asleep in moments like this because the Lord sustains him. He is not afraid of anyone. He calls on God to handle his adversaries. He ends not in doubt and anxiety, but by blessing others!

Ask

Lord, fill me with your Holy Spirit and give me a deep trust that you sustain me today.

What would it look like for me to “lie down and sleep” in trust, even when life feels unsafe or uncertain?
Where have I experienced God sustaining me through seasons of weakness or exhaustion?
How can remembering that “salvation belongs to the Lord” free me from trying to control outcomes?
In what ways might my confidence in God become a blessing or encouragement to others?

Lord, revive us! Pour out your Holy Spirit on your Church and make those who are asleep come alive. Do the impossible in this world and make it your own. Our hope is in you.

Yield

As I read the passage for the final time, I listen to how the Lord is inviting me to respond to him. Where in my life do I need to yield in obedience to what he has for me?

Psalm 3:5-8

Yielding Prayer

Lord, you sustain me when I cannot sustain myself. I yield my need for control and my restless striving into your hands. Teach me to rest in your strength, to wake each day with faith instead of fear, and to remember that victory and salvation belong to you alone. Let my trust in you overflow in peace and blessing to those around me.

Yielding Promise

And now, as I move into the day ahead, the Lord who loves me reminds me in John 14…

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

John 14:27

Closing Prayer

Lord, enable me, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to love you today with all of my heart, soul, mind, and strength; and to serve you today, by loving and caring for others as I do my own self; and, to exalt you today, by telling the people in my world about the abundant and eternal life found only through faith in Jesus