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Prayers for Good Luck and God’s Favor: For an Exam, a New Start or a Hard Week

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Summary

  • Abraham’s servant prayed, “send me good speed this day” (Genesis 24:12), and Psalm 118:25 asks, “O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.”
  • Ecclesiastes 9:11 says “time and chance happeneth to them all,” and Proverbs 16:33 says the disposing of the lot “is of the LORD”; Christians ask God, not luck, for a good outcome.
  • Short prayers cover an exam, a new venture, a journey, protection, waiting for a result, a run of bad luck, money, peace with others, an open door and thanks.
  • The priestly blessing of Numbers 6:24–26 can be given to a friend who needs good luck.
  • Two collects from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer ask for God’s “gracious favour” and his help “among all the changes and chances of this mortal life.”
  • The Catholic Catechism rejects charms and superstitious prayers (paragraphs 2111, 2117), and the Council in Trullo (692) set penance for fortune-tellers and “amulet-givers.”

For good luck, a Christian asks God: “Lord, go before me today. Give me a clear head and a steady hand, open the right doors and close the wrong ones, and let this go well, if it is your will. Amen.” The Bible’s own prayer for success is Psalm 118:25: “O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.” Prayers for success in the Bible Scripture records people asking God, in so many words, for a good outcome on a particular…

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Bibliography (Click to show)
  • Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Genesis 24:12, 15; 39:21; Numbers 6:24–26; Nehemiah 1:11; Psalm 31:15; 91:4; 118:25; 133:1; Proverbs 10:22; 16:3, 33; Ecclesiastes 9:11; Acts 1:26; James 4:15). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
  • Die Bibel, translated by Martin Luther, revised text of 1912. Psalm 118:25. https://www.bibel-online.net/buch/luther_1912/psalm/118/
  • The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Prayers, Collects, “Assist us mercifully, O Lord” and “Direct us, O Lord, in all our doings,” p. 49. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
  • Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd ed. Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1997. Paragraphs 2111, 2116–2117, https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P7E.HTM; paragraph 2413, https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P8B.HTM
  • Council in Trullo (692), Canon 61. Translated by Henry Percival, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, vol. 14 (1900). https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3814.htm
  • Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. “The Quinisext Ecumenical Council.” https://www.goarch.org/-/the-quinisext-ecumenical-council

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