A Prayer for When Storms Arise

"Build a boat." It was a quiet word received during prayer, mysterious enough that Tammy Darling joked it might mean a cruise was on the horizon. Weeks passed with no further clarity — and then the storm hit. Her husband's diagnosis of thyroid cancer arrived suddenly, and what had seemed like a cry…

A Prayer for Refreshment in God’s Presence

Weariness has a way of brewing just below the surface — quiet enough to ignore for a while, but persistent enough that it eventually makes itself known. In this tender and soul-nourishing episode, Keri Eichberger gives voice to a longing most of us carry but rarely stop to name: the deep, aching de…

A Prayer for Carrying More Than You Were Made to Carry

In this raw and deeply personal episode, Rachel Wojo shares the moment something inside her broke. Not because God hadn't made her strong enough, but because she had been carrying things He never handed her in the first place. Moses found himself in the same place in Exodus 18, judging every dispu…

A Nation's Prayer for Its Flag

In this prayerful episode for Flag Day, Lynette Kittle reflects on what the American flag has meant to generations of citizens who have lived under its colors, fought beneath it, and looked to it as a symbol of the freedoms they hold dear. Adopted by the Continental Congress in 1777, the flag has w…

A Prayer to Manage Anger in a Way That Glorifies God

Red-faced, tie askew, and ready to sound the alarm at a moment's notice — Disney Pixar's "Anger" from Inside Out is a surprisingly accurate picture of what it feels like when that emotion takes the wheel. In this practical and grace-filled episode, Vivian Bricker uses that familiar character as a j…

A Prayer to Not Fret in Confusing Times

Imagine a seasoned grandfather pulling up a chair beside his restless, frustrated grandchildren — children upset about the apparent success of dishonest people and the seemingly unchecked wrongdoing in the world — and offering them hard-won, life-tested wisdom: don't fret. That is precisely the spi…

A Prayer for the One Who Is Afraid of God’s Glory and Power

A brave little dog who faced down strangers and cornering praying mantises without flinching — brought to trembling terror by the sound of thunder. Sophia Bricker uses that tender image as a doorway into one of Scripture's most overwhelming encounters: the prophet Ezekiel falling facedown before th…

A Prayer to Lean into Sanctification

Scrolling through old birthday photos, watching her boys grow from newborns into the children they are today, Emily Rose Massey noticed something she hadn't expected to see in those pictures — her own transformation. Because while she was busy raising four boys, God was quietly, faithfully doing a …

A Prayer for When Victory Is Needed

The year was 1809. The world had its eyes fixed on Napoleon Bonaparte and the sweeping battles of the War of the Fifth Coalition. But while the nations watched the conflict, heaven was watching something else entirely — the births of Abraham Lincoln, Alfred Tennyson, Louis Braille, and others whose…

A Prayer to Embrace Imperfection

Isn't it oddly freeing to be humbled? To be gently caught in a blind spot and brought back down to solid ground? In this warm and disarming episode, Lia Girard invites us to reconsider our relationship with imperfection — not as something to be ashamed of or frantically fixed, but as part of God's …