SkiesPrayer
A prayer for today
A short prayer for today, rooted in today’s Bible passage. It changes every day.
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 7:7–12
Today’s prayer is rooted in Matthew 7:7–12, the passage in today’s reading in Skies. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus talks about prayer by pointing to something every parent knows: what to hand a hungry child.
Pray
Father in heaven, I come like a child asking for bread. Here is what I need today. Teach me to keep asking, seeking, and knocking, and to give good things to others as you give to me. Amen.
Make it your prayer
Read the passage first, slowly. Then pray the prayer once as it is, and once in your own words. Add the name of one person you will see today.
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Where does today’s prayer come from?
It is the prayer from today’s reading in the Skies app: written by our editorial team to pray today’s passage back to God.
