Personal Prayer
This week, meditate on Psalm 42 each day. Today, praise God as the one who quenches your deepest spiritual thirst (42:1-2). Thank him for being the living water in your life. Confess times in your life when you’ve passed by God’s streams of water and settled for Satan’s stale pond instead. Commit yourself to quenching your thirst in the living God alone. Ask him to meet with you in prayer today.

For Your Family and Friends
Pray that your family will be a refreshing oasis of hospitality and warmth as you open yourselves to the needs of others.

For the Church
Do the members of your congregation thirst for God as they come to worship? Pray that they will. Pray also for God to prepare your own heart as you join with others in God’s house this Sunday.

For the Kingdom
Pray for missionaries in many countries who share with hurting people not only the bread of life, but also cups of cold water in the name of Christ. Ask God’s blessing on their labors.

For People to Know Jesus
Pray that your own thirst for a closer relationship with God might draw others to him. Ask God to get you out of the way so that they might see Jesus clearly and drink deeply of him.

Prayer Pointer
“Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom.” —Charles H. Spurgeon