Wednesday Night
Prayer
As this day comes to a close, I quiet the noise of my thoughts and my efforts, and seek you in the stillness.
Refrain for the Evening
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
1 John 4:4
Am I going into this evening carrying anxiety or worry in my heart? Lord, I open my hands now and give you all of the things that have me anxious. Having laid my burdens at your feet, I receive the peace that comes from trusting you with them. You have promised me that your steadfast love endures forever. (Psalm 136:2)
Refrain for the Evening
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
1 John 4:4
Am I going into this evening fearful over something in my life? I take a deep breath now and consciously choose to trust you in this moment with my life and all I hold dear, knowing that your word to me is “fear not,” because you are the one who helps me. (Isaiah 41:13)
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:8
As I go to sleep, my Father, I praise you for sustaining me this day, and thank you for your blessings in it. Show me now where you have been answering prayers or how you were at work in my life today.
Evening Scripture
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died–more than that, who was raised–who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, ‘For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.’ 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 8:31-39
And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
1 John 3:3
Father God, I come to you for purification. Show me the ways I have sinned against you today so that I can confess them to you now.
Thank you Lord, that you have told me that there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. (Romans 8:1) I trust now that I am forgiven.
Refrain for the Evening
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
1 John 4:4
Closing Prayer
In peace I now lie down and sleep, for you alone, Lord, make me dwell in safety. (Psalm 4:8) Grant rest tonight, I pray. And grant that tomorrow I would again seek your Kingdom and your glory in all the earth. Amen.