NIV, DayBreak Prayers for Believers

By Lawrence O. Richards and David Carder

Look no further for hope and prayer in your times of need. This DayBreak Prayers for Believers ebook has topically arranged Scripture verses and prayers from the NIV Bible to help you when you most need it.

For every season of life, God has promises that offer direction, peace, wisdom, and perspective. The DayBreak Book series is a collection of 5 ebooks, each offering unique prayers or promises from NIV Scripture. Topically arranged, each book is categorized into sections for quick, easy searching.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Release date: Dec 25, 2012
• ISBN: 9780310421573

Lawrence O. Richards

Lawrence O. Richards wrote over 200 Christian books, including commentaries on every book of the Bible, features for the bestselling Adventure Bible®, and features for the Teen Study Bible, which he wrote with his wife, Sue.          

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PART ONE

PRINCIPLES FOR INTIMACY IN PRAYER

When you trusted Jesus you entered the closest relationship with God possible. You became a child in the family of One who is Father. As God’s child you are invited to come to him with every need and joy. Scripture is filled with wonderful reassurances that prayer is not a spiritual exercise performed according to easily-broken rules, but the reaching of a child to its Father … a Father lovingly eager to hear.

COME TO GOD AS LORD

PSALM 77:10–14

Then I thought, To this I will appeal: the years when the Most High stretched out his right hand. I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago. I will consider all your works and meditate on all your mighty deeds. Your ways, God, are holy. What god is as great as our God? You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples.

2 CHRONICLES 20:6

And said: LORD, the God of our ancestors, are you not the God who is in heaven? … Power and might are in your hand, and no one can withstand you.

PSALM 89:5–8

The heavens praise your wonders, LORD, your faithfulness too, in the assembly of the holy ones. For who in the skies above can compare with the LORD? Who is like the LORD among the heavenly beings? In the council of the holy ones God is greatly feared; he is more awesome than all who surround him. Who is like you, LORD God Almighty? You, LORD, are mighty, and your faithfulness surrounds you.

NEHEMIAH 9:5–6

And the Levites — Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah — said: Stand up and praise the LORD your God, who is from everlasting to everlasting. Blessed be your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise. You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.

COME TO GOD AS FATHER

LUKE 11:1–4

One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples. He said to them, When you pray, say: ‘Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread. Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation.’ "

ROMANS 8:14–17

For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs — heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

EPHESIANS 3:14–16

For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray …

GALATIANS 3:26; 4:4–6

So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith … God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father."

COME TO GOD IN JESUS’ NAME

JOHN 16:23–24

In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.

JOHN 14:13–14

And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

PHILIPPIANS 4:19

And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.

HEBREWS 10:19–22

Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that