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Morning Prayer – Encouraging Bible Verses

The morning time is the best opportunity to connect with and relate to God in the Bible and prayer – super encouraging Bible verses.

Idaho Sunset

The morning time is the best opportunity to connect and relate with God in the Bible and prayer – super encouraging Bible verses

Just before the day gets going, the crazy things start coming,  worry, threats, coffee not ready, stresses come, the emails come, a software update, a software bug, the twitters come, furnace stops working,  Facebook is calling  and then the other billion things that fill a day.  Take time in the morning before other crazy things to connect, relate and talk to God the source of our life and our strength. He is the one to enlarge us, prepare us and strengthen us through the whole day.

Consider these wonderful super encouraging Bible verses on prayer in the morning.

Revelation 2:28 and I will give him the morning star. (Once the sun comes up or we answer two emails, the star cannot be seen)

Psalms 30:5 For his anger is but for a moment,and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night,but joy comes with the morning.

 Mark 1:35  Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed. Jesus really liked the morning time for prayer and Bible reading. Notice Jesus got up before the sleepy sun got up.

Canon Beach, Haystack Rock

Evening and morning and at noon I will pray — Canon Beach, Haystack Rock

Psalms 55:17 Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, And He shall hear my voice.

p.s. The first picture above that looks like a sunrise, is actually a sunset in the Pacific Northwest – Idaho.

Never Give Up

Never give up in praying to God. Never give up in reading the Bible.

A Lake in Montana

A Lake in Montana

He is always there to listen and answer.   The best Bible verse is Luke 18:1  And he spoke also a parable to them to the purpose that they should always pray and not faint,  So the Lord does not want us to give up, even when it seems impossible or have asked and asked and it seems like nothing has happened.  God is always there and hears, He just has His timing for answers.

A Lake in Montana

A Lake in Montana

Morning Time

Time alone with God every morning before you start the day can make a big difference.

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

The morning time is the best time to connect with God. Lets all concerns and fears be ignored. Just come to God with prayer, Bible reading, devotional reading, or anything that inspires you to touch and contact God. Some mornings can be difficult because of things that just bother us. Life is full of anxieties and things that just upset us. Some concerns just do not go away.  Right in the middle find a way to pray what God is praying. Don’t fret, just pray. Spending time with God helps us trust Him.

Psalms 57:7
My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast;
I will sing and give praise.

Life and Peace

In Romans chapter 8 we come to a great verse on life and peace. After Paul in Romans spends many chapters on God’s condemnation of sinful man, and the justification only available through what God did in Jesus, we now come to chapter eight, a chapter about living in the Spirit. No matter what man could do to rescue himself, only God’s work could do this. Man with his great desire to please God, just cannot satisfy God’s requirement. Only the work that Jesus did on the cross could satisfy what God requires.

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

So in Romans chapter eight we come to: Romans 8:6  For the mind set on the flesh is death; but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace. This means to walk in the Spirit by following the Lord brings peace in our life. So peace comes by walking with the Lord.

Columbia River, railroad tracks

Columbia River, railroad tracks

Come Lord Jesus

This is the prayer at the end of the Bible. It is the last prayer in the whole Bible. It is the second to the last verse of the Bible. It is the last prayer and almost the last verse in the book of Revelation. It is the finale, the last prayer made by God in the Bible. The final prayer “Come Lord Jesus”. What a conclusion to invite the Lord Lesus into everything in our life. Not just for Him to come again, as He will one day in His second coming, but to actually let Him be Lord in our lives. So let Him come in and bring our lives back to what He wants to do in us and through us.

Spokane River near Downtown in Spring

Spokane River near Downtown in Spring

God is real, a living person, the creator of the universe, the designer of the atom and DNA. He designed every solar system and every living thing on the earth. So He has plans for our life and what we do. So just pray this final prayer in the Bible from Revelation 22:2o  “Come Lord Jesus”

Revelation 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. 21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

To get a few more points on this topic, see the blog article on Jonah – When God speaks, He eventually gets His way.

Encouraging Morning Prayer – Bible Verses

Here is two wonderful encouraging Bible verses on prayer in the morning.

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

Morning time is the best time to connect with God in the Bible and prayer – encouraging Bible verses – Multnomah Falls

Psalm 5:3 O Lord, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice; In the morning will I order my prayer unto thee, and will keep watch.  Notice the word “voice” in this verse. Sometimes we just can pray with our voice, we are not sure where our heart is nor what is the will of God.

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

Multnomah Falls, Oregon


Psalm 88:13 But unto thee, O Lord, have I cried; And in the morning shall my prayer come before thee.

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

These verses should be great encouragements for us to take the morning time to connect and contact God through prayer. Morning time is the best time to connect with God in the Bible and prayer

Martin Luther on Prayer

During the reformation, where people came back to the Bible, Martin Luther comments on the subject of prayer. Prayer had to be big in that day because of all the strong religion pulling people away from the Bible. I am sure Luther prayed much.

But the principle went still further; for it vindicated for the laity the possession of spiritual faculties and powers the same in kind as those of the clergy. All Christian men are admitted to the privilege of priesthood, and are “worthy to appear before God to pray for others, and to teach one another mutually the things which are of God. — from First Principles of the Reformation (95 Theses)

So too His priesthood does not consist in the outward display of vestments and gestures, as did the human priesthood of Aaron and our ecclesiastical priesthood at this day, but in spiritual things, wherein, in His invisible office, He intercedes for us with God in heaven, and there offers Himself, and performs all the duties of a priest; as Paul describes Him to the Hebrews under the figure of Melchizedek. Nor does He only pray and intercede for us; He also teaches us inwardly in the spirit with the living teachings of His Spirit. Now these are the two special offices of a priest, as is figured to us in the case of fleshly priests, by visible prayers and sermons.
— from: First Principles of the Reformation (95 Theses)