Dr. Kevin DeYoung

Father, we come now to the reading and the preaching of your word, asking sincerely that you would help us to listen. It’s a narrow word, but it’s a word for all of us. May our hearts not be hard to it. Pray that you would, especially for those who are on the cusp of…

Oh, Father, we have just sung these words, and we trust that we mean them. You have led us. Some of us are here this morning, and we look around and say, “Surely the lines have fallen for us in pleasant places.” Others may feel as if they’re being dragged through the valley of the…

Gracious Heavenly Father, we are so glad that you invite us, command us, to knock, seek, ask, and to call on you as our father. And so as your children, we beseech you that you might speak clearly. We’re hard of hearing. You would speak to our hearts, for we are easily wayward, and you…

Oh Lord, we have just sung these words: “How marvelous, how wonderful, and my song shall ever be. How marvelous, how wonderful is my Savior’s love for me?” May we be impressed once again of your great love for us. May this word now to be preached be the instrument of renewing in us trust…

Father in heaven, we come once again in prayer. We trust not out of mere habit, but asking, believing that you will help us as we come to your word. Teach us what we need to hear. Correct us where we are wayward. Encourage us where we are weak. Lift up Jesus in our midst….

Our Father in heaven, we come before you again asking now directly that you might give us grace to be not only hearers of your word but doers that by the miraculous intervention of the Holy Spirit, though the words will be through very human lips and very imperfect messenger, that yet you might give…

Let’s pray. Gracious heavenly Father, we come each Sunday knowing, hopefully remembering, that we stand in need of your grace. And so, we ask that you would feed us. Feed us now with the Word we will hear and receive through our ears. Then after that, feed us with the Word that we will see,…

Father in heaven, as we come to your Word we ask once again that you would help us to hear, we need ears that we might understand, that we might be open and we might not be distracted and that we would with the eyes of faith hear just what you mean to speak to…

Father in heaven, we ask once again that you would give us grace, that we might have ears to hear and that this poor lisping, stammering tongue would have grace to speak your Word, that we might find challenge and comfort, that you would make sense of what can seem so senseless in our lives…