Simple Short Daily Prayer Books Series Book 2

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Prayer 264: Heavenly Father, grant that all parents would faithfully teach their children Your Word and ways in Jesus' name amen
Read Deuteronomy 4:1–14 and Psalm 119: 9–16.
Keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children. Deuteronomy 4:9.

Passing It Down
Whenever I attend a worship service with my friend Eric and his family there is one part I look forward to the most—the Lord's Prayer. Why? Because Eric's three-year-old daughter always speaks the Lord's Prayer louder than everyone else, and she is always a half-step behind. She may be young, but she has that prayer down, and we all can hear it!
God gives parents a special vocation. He commands them to teach their children about His story, His laws, and His Son. The reason is simple: so they will always remember the Lord their God. Children don't live under the wisdom and guidance of their parents forever. It just may happen that a prayer someone learned as a child from a parent is exactly the right prayer in a time of need when they are older. Or maybe a Bible verse memorized as a child serves as a reminder of God's grace just when they need it most.
The Gospel truths we learn as children stay with us when we are adults. May the Word of the Lord ever rest upon our hearts, all the days of our lives.

Prayer 265: Thank You, Jesus. Though I have failed You many times You have never failed me amen.
Read 2nd Timothy 8–13 and Psalm 136:1–16 & Verses 23–26.
If we are faithless, He remains faithful—for He cannot deny Himself. 2 Timothy 2:13

Forever Faithful
The Book of 2nd Timothy was the apostle Paul's final epistle. As he wrote it from a prison in Rome he was aware that his remaining days were short. Yet Paul still couldn't help but gush to Timothy about the Lord's faithfulness, even as he was bound in chains and facing death! In Paul's eyes, everything he had ever suffered in the name of the Lord Jesus was worth it. He had been baptized into the family of Christ, forgiven of his past of persecuting the Church, and made a new creation by the love of Jesus. It didn't matter what the world did to him, for his Savior was faithful and would raise him to live forever. Full stop.
It is in Jesus' very nature to love His people fiercely, even if they offer Him no love in return. That's just who He is! Our Baptism is a seal, a guarantee, that all of Jesus' promises apply to us. He daily and richly forgives us, He supplies us with everything we need in this life, and He is with us in every moment. And He gives us faith in our salvation and eternal life with Him.
There's nothing you can do and nothing that can happen to you that will make Him change His mind about you.
You are His. You belong to Him. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

Prayer 266: O loving Creator, look with favor upon us.
In Jesus' name and for His sake amen.
Read Job 26 and Psalm 8
Behold, these are but the outskirts of His ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of Him! Job 26:14.
Exploring The Mystery
We live in a world where everything can be explained (correction "'almost everything can be explained in this world" for those of you who read my books of fan fictions especially the Descendants Winx Club Crossover with Uma and Musa I questioned why does Lightning Shimmer? I tried to look up the answer and found no clear answer and what answers I did find were clearly contradicting each other. Even ai doesn't have a single clear explanation for it–Lumna10.)
Ever wonder how airplanes stay up in the sky? A YouTube video can show you how it works. Confused why it's hailing during the summer? A Google search will tell you what's happening in the clouds. When we don't know something, there are resources close at hand to satisfy our curiosity. This is a gift-but it also conditions us with the expectation that we can know everything we want to know.
God is the ultimate check to Google. Job quickly discovered that God is unsearchable and that we catch only glimpses of the smallest of His works and ways. Who could possibly understand the mind of the Creator of all things?
We can't know everything about Him; in fact, we can know hardly anything at all!
But today's psalmist doesn't see that as a bad thing.
He says, "When I look at Your heavens, the work of Your fingers... what is man that You are mindful of him?" (Psalm 8:3-4). This is not a cry for explanation but a shout of joy. He embraces the mystery that God cares for humans.
It fills him with wonder and awe at God's majesty, His mercy. God loves us—that's a mystery we should live in instead of trying to solve!

Like Paul and this anonymous devotions writer I will also say the shimmer of lightning is too far surreal to be an optical illusion or be caused by anything but the hands of God. Yes ai said lightning's shimmer could be an optical illusion but anyone think that in person when standing looking at it from far away distance is always a trickster it's why people have dizzy spells at certain angles of their visual sight. Most of our brain only knows how to activate our visual sight we have to teach the rest of brain to tune into other skills. Our brains due to sin have clung themselves to focusing in on our visual cues and our feelings respond to the visual cues our mind triggers for us this is part of the autopilot brain.
When I was a very young child and my 2nd oldest brother was still in boy-scouts we went to a boy-scout dinner hosted by the boy-scout troop for their family members and them to hang out. It rained outside while dinner occurred. And then my brother and father went to the open door way of the building and I joined them because I had finished eating too and standing between them as it rained outside that building and then zip zip across the sky some were vertical and some were horizontal neither of those flashes of lightning ever reached the ground but their light was so super white and glowey and there were not street parking lots to mess up their glowiness. I cannot recall seeing a prettier thing in my life than the eternal shimmer of a lightning strike, but I will be determined to get that close to a lightning strike again but I know the glow is so surreal to never have been an optical illusion like ai says it could be I had a clear unobstructed view even the clouds of the rain weren't coating it either. Praise the Lord for his amazing handiwork in that powerful lightning danced across the sky and yet also never came close to harming any of my loved ones. –Lumna10.

Prayer 267: Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on us and help us remember you were never to busy to help any one of us sinners in Your name amen.
Read Mark 10:46–52 and Psalm 40:11–17
And Jesus stopped and said, "Call him." And they called the blind man saying to him, "Take heart. Get up. He is calling you." Mark 10:49.

An Important Detour
Jesus was almost there. Almost to Jerusalem, the place of His triumphal entry before His arrest and crucifixion. The reason He had come to earth was so close–He alone knew how vital it was to reach this city.
But there sat Bartimaeus, a man who was blind, on the roadside. Unimportant. Unloved. While Bartimaeus didn't have the sense of sight to see the crowd, his hearing was just fine. By the noise of the crowd, he concluded that Jesus of Nazareth was walking by. Maybe, just maybe, He would have mercy on him and restore his sight. "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!" he cried. "Quiet!" many in the crowd snapped, "Let Him pass." But he cried out for Jesus even louder, hoping against hope Jesus would stop for him.
And He did. Although the weight of the world was on His shoulders, Jesus took a moment to call back to the man who was blind, to converse with him, and to grant him his heart's desire. Jesus' schedule is never too full to help a sinner in need.
You can be assured that, even though Jesus is busy ruling the cosmos by the Father's side, He always has time to spend with you. Take heart! He hears your cries for mercy and You are important to Him as well as (very) loved by Him (too). "Jesus loves you and me this we know'" is far from being an understatement of the centuries; it is the truthest truth ever spoken, sung or written down.

Prayer 268: Dear Jesus, thank You for dying in my place so that I might have access to God in Your name amen I pray.
Read 1st Peter 3:13–18
Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. 1st Peter 3:18.

Prayer 269: Precious Savior, it's hard to express how grateful I am that You suffered, died, and rose again for me. Thank you this I pray gratefully from this heart of mine in Your name please show me how to share this gratefulness to other people within and even outside my church so when I act they may feel the glorifying presence of the Lord that you are through the Holy Spirit amen.