Prayer of the Day

Father, You have forgiven me. Why can't I?

I keep replaying it — what I did, what it cost, who it hurt. The voice in my head reads the charges again every time I start to feel free.

But Lord, You do not read old charges. You dropped them. As far as the east is from the west — that is where You put my sin. Who am I to go dig it back up?

So teach my heart to sign the same pardon You signed. When the accusing voice starts tonight, let Your voice be louder, and kinder, and final.

In Jesus' name, Amen.

Lord, give me sleep tonight — real rest, the kind You designed my body to need and my heart to receive.

Slow my breathing. Loosen my shoulders. Take the day's noise out of my ears.

You give sleep to those You love, so I'll stop trying to earn it and simply receive it.

Watch over me until morning.

In Jesus' name, Amen.