60 Days of Prayer

Each issue of 60 Days of Prayer is filled with reflections and prayers that will help quiet your mind and prepare your heart for prayer.

A Note from the Editor • A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away. ECCLESIASTES 3:6 (KJV)

A Prayer for October

Just for Today • Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. MATTHEW 6:34 (ESV)

Fully Face Your Fear • The Lord is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid? PSALM 27:1 (NIV)

Get to Know God • Those who know your name trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you. PSALM 9:10 (NIV)

Bless the Animals • So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. GENESIS 1:21 (NIV)

Forgive One Another and Yourself • For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. MATTHEW 6:14 (NIV)

Grow in Patience • God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. PSALM 46:1 (NIV)

God Is with You • The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. DEUTERONOMY 31:8 (NIV)

Love Your Life • For anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his. HEBREWS 4:10 (NIV)

Trust His Power and Goodness • The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still. EXODUS 14:14 (NIV)

Blessed with Purpose • That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers. PSALM 1:3 (NIV)

Let Go of Jealous Thoughts • Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other. GALATIANS 5:26 (NIV)

The Abundance of His Provision • For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. ECCLESIASTES 3:1 (ESV)

Face Uncertainties • “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” JEREMIAH 29:11 (NIV)

Be Kind to the Unkind • Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. ROMANS 12:21 (NIV)

Release Old Hurts • The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners. ISAIAH 61:1 (NIV)

Trust His Plan • Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant my desire. JOB 6:8 (NIV)

Sing a New Song • Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. PSALM 96:1 (NIV)

For Such a Time as This • For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?” ESTHER 4:14 (NIV)

Use Problems as Stepping Stones • Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. JAMES 1:2–3 (NIV)

Vanity of Vanities • Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. ECCLESIASTES 1:2 (ESV)

Glory to His Name • Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for his name’s sake. ROMANS 1:5 (NIV)

Overcome Temptation • Because he...