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God’s Help for Your Every Need: 101 Life-Changing Prayers

God's Help for Your Every Need written by Mark Gilroy

101 Life-Changing Prayers

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

—Hebrews 4:16 NKJV

Prayer is much more than the words you say to God. Prayer goes back to the beginning of time, to the Garden of Eden, where God walked and talked with Adam and Eve daily, making it crystal clear for all of us to understand and see, He desires fellowship with us.

Prayer is God’s invitation for us to enter into his presence with confidence, not timidity. It is his invitation to us to speak our hurts and needs and worries. Prayer is God’s antidote to the toxins of fear, cynicism, skepticism, and self-centeredness. Prayer is the wonderful opportunity for us to grow in faith and attitude as we express our love, gratitude, and praise to God. Prayer is the place to find forgiveness and begin repentance as we confess our sins to God.

You have been given a tremendous gift, rooted in God’s desire to spend time with you. It is called prayer. Respond to this gracious invitation to experience more fully the peace, joy, purpose, wisdom, and power of knowing God.

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INSIDE THE BOOK

God’s Help for Your Every Need is divided into six sections – they are listed below with samples of the prayer topics. Click on highlighted topics to read samples that have been shared on blogs.

Home and Family

  • There Is Conflict in My Home
  • Guard My Children from Bad Influences
  • Bless My Spouse
  • My Child Is Struggling and I Don’t Know How to Help
  • My Parent’s Health Is Deteriorating

Attitudes and Emotions

  • I Need Courage
  • A Friend Has Betrayed Me
  • I Lack Confidence
  • I Am Struggling with Anger
  • I Feel So Alone

Work and Finances

  • I Need a Job
  • My Company Is Struggling
  • I Am Being Sued
  • I Want a Job Promotion
  • I Am Being Asked to Compromise My Character
  • I Need to Live Within My Means

Spiritual Growth

  • I Am Struggling with Temptation
  • I Have Drifted Spiritually and Need to Come “Home”
  • I Need to Forgive
  • I Need to Simplify My Life
  • Renew My Strength
  • I Have Doubts

My World and Nation

  • Bless My Country
  • Give Wisdom to Our Leaders
  • Establish Racial Harmony
  • Protect Our Soldiers
  • Help Me Speak the Good News

Mission and Service

  • I Want to Be A Blessing
  • I Am Bored and Lack Purpose
  • I Want to Share My Faith
  • I Need Hope for the Future
  • Loving My World

 

You Don’t Always Know What You Need Until You Get It

what do you need in your life right now?

I got invited to a men’s Bible study about four months ago. I didn’t know what I was missing.

You don’t always know what you need until you experience what you’re missing from your life. This point hit me straight in the heart recently.

Four months ago I got invited to start attending a men’s small group Bible Study on Wednesday mornings. How long is it, I asked. About 90 minutes, sometimes two hours. Hmmm. I’m a working man. Do I have that much time?

I’ve gone to church every week for my entire life. I taught teen and then young adult Sunday School for more than 20 years. I’m not a Bible scholar, but I do have a seminary degree, and what with working in Christian publishing most of my adult life … how do I say this without sounding like a jerk … I’ll just say it … I feel like I know the Bible pretty well without adding another study. I always have something to learn, but I often get that through reading or sermons. It’s always felt like enough. [Read more…]

USA TODAY Review: Cuts Like a Knife

Mystery, suspense, touches of romance and a hearty dose of wry humor fill the action-packed pages of M.K. Gilroy's debut novel, Cuts Like a Knife.

Mystery, suspense, touches of romance and a hearty dose of wry humor fill the action-packed pages of M.K. Gilroy’s debut novel, Cuts Like a Knife.

A look back at the first national review of my debut novel!

Review: ‘Cuts Like a Knife’ by M.K. Gilroy

By Serena Chase, USA TODAY [LINKED TO USA TODAY]

The sitch: Kristen Conner is a tough police detective who coaches her niece’s soccer team, spends a lot of time with her family – even when things are tense, which is most of the time – and goes to church on Sunday – except when family things are tense or she’s busy with work, which is a lot of the time, lately. She’s a good cop who has risen through the ranks quickly – too quickly some think, crediting her dad’s legacy in the department more than her skill set.
Though she can’t hit the proverbial barn with a bullet, she’s got great detective instincts and is all aces in hand-to-hand combat, a skill that protects her in the field but garners the attention of Internal Affairs when a knife-wielding punk cries “excessive force” upon his arrest.
Narrowly avoiding a suspension, Kristen is assigned to a hush-hush joint task force of the Chicago P.D. and the FBI to catch the serial killer known as the Cutter Shark. Desperate to catch the killer before he does his grisly work on another young Chicago woman, Kristen goes undercover in hopes of drawing him out. But the Cutter Shark has had Detective Conner in his sights all along … and he’s closer than she thinks. [Read more…]