(Praying you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. For this Christmas season, we are going to provide weekly Advent prayers written by Ashley and Abbi of Deeper Wells. Please set aside time throughout this week to pray and, if you’d like, read, meditate, listen, move and ultimately connect with our Reason for the Season. At the bottom you’ll find a phone screen created by Shauna of Deeper Wells. Enjoy our first week’s prayer. Thank you, Abbi, Ashley & Shauna!)
PRAY
Lord, as we enter into this Advent season of preparation, we pray You would prepare our hearts to receive what You want to impart to us. Let our hope be found in You alone, not in the circumstances around us.
Help us quiet our minds and be still in Your Presence. Give us an authentic desire to just sit with You this year. We pause and ask Lord– would You come encounter us in new ways, beyond what we could ask, think, or imagine this Christmas? (Eph 3:20-21) Will You help us realize and recognize that we can hear Your voice?
Lord, we choose to focus this week on the Living Hope that you bring; a hope so much better than anything the world around us could ever offer. Your Word says that You are our Source of hope! We stand in agreement with Your Truth– we believe You fill us completely with joy and peace as we trust in You. Your Spirit’s power causes us to overflow with confidence, abounding in the hope of Your redemption. (Romans 15:13)
This Advent, we thank You for the hope Your birth introduced into the world, and the hope You are to us today even in the weariness of life. Thank You for the hope You bring our hearts as we look toward eternity with You, Lord. We pray You would help us keep our hopes up as we place our hope in You this year, Jesus. In Your Name we pray. Amen.
READ & MEDITATE
Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Ephesians 3:20-21
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:13
LISTEN
MOVE
Burning Bright! 