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Prayers for Favor from God: For Work, Decisions, Hard Times and Every Day

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Summary

  • Short prayers ask for God’s favor at the start of the day, with God and people, at work or an interview, before a decision, in a hard situation, while waiting, for provision, for healing, in a broken relationship, for humility and to be a light to others.
  • Scripture has its own prayers for favor: Nehemiah 1:11, Psalm 106:4, Psalm 90:17 and the priestly blessing of Numbers 6:25.
  • Psalm 90:17 reads “the beauty of the LORD our God” in the King James Version and “the favor of the Lord our God” in the NIV and ESV.
  • The 1928 Book of Common Prayer’s collect “Direct us, O Lord” asks for God’s “most gracious favour”; Catholics asking a particular favor often pray the Memorare, quoted from the 1888 Manual of Prayers.
  • In the Bible, Noah, Joseph, Samuel, Daniel, Esther, Mary and the first Jerusalem Christians are all said to have found favor, which did not spare Joseph prison or Mary sorrow (Luke 2:35).

Psalm 106:4 asks for God’s favor: “Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation.” In plain words: “Lord, look on me with kindness. Go before me, open the right doors, give me favor with the people I meet, and let everything I do honor you. Amen.” Short prayers for God’s favor At the start of the day Father, thank you for this new day. Go before me into it.…

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  • Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Genesis 6:8; 39:21; Numbers 6:25; 1 Samuel 2:26; Nehemiah 1:11; Esther 2:17; Psalm 30:5; 90:17; 106:4; Proverbs 3:4; 16:3; Isaiah 40:29; Daniel 1:9; Luke 1:30; 2:35, 52; Acts 2:47; 2 Corinthians 12:9; Ephesians 2:8; James 1:5; 1 Peter 5:6). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
  • Psalm 90:17 in the New International Version and the English Standard Version, compared at Bible Gateway. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+90%3A17&version=NIV;ESV
  • The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Prayers, Collects, “Direct us, O Lord,” p. 49. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
  • A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity, prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. The Memorare, “A Prayer ascribed to St. Bernard,” pp. 381–382. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888

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