Cross Talk

Tag: prayer

  • My New Year’s Prayer: Create in me a Clean Heart

    Today is New Year’s Day. The day we put the past year behind us and look forward to the next year, hoping it will be better than the previous one. Many of us make resolutions and become determined to make…

  • Monday Meditation: Ephesians 4:22-24

    This week’s meditation is on Ephesians 4:22-24: 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness…

  • Monday Meditation: Luke 1:68-69

    This week’s meditation is on Luke 1:68-69: “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,     for he has visited and redeemed his people 69 and has raised up a horn of salvation for us     in the house of his servant David,

  • Monday Meditation: 1 Peter 2:24

    This week’s meditation is on 1 Peter 2:24: 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

  • Monday Meditation: Lamentations 3:22-23

    This week’s meditation is on Lamentations 3:22-23: 22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;     his mercies never come to an end; 23 they are new every morning;     great is your faithfulness.

  • Monday Meditation: John 15:13

    This week’s meditation is on John 15:13: 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. (ESV)

  • Thanksgiving in Christ and Giving Thanks to Christ

    This year I want to focus my thankfulness on God’s faithfulness, because for most of my life I was an apostate. I was one of the people who didn’t understand where my blessings came from. And yet, even though I…

  • Monday Meditation: Psalm 100:4-5

    This week’s meditation is on Psalm 100:4-5: Enter his gates with thanksgiving,     and his courts with praise!     Give thanks to him; bless his name! 5 For the Lord is good;     his steadfast love endures forever,     and his faithfulness to all generations.

  • Monday Meditation: Isaiah 26:3

    This week’s meditation is on Isaiah 26:3: You keep him in perfect peace     whose mind is stayed on you,     because he trusts in you.

  • Monday Meditation: Psalm 143:8

    This week’s meditation is Psalm 143:8: Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love,     for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go,     for to you I lift up my soul.