Prayer for Guidance
A Listening Heart
1 min · Good for: Seeking, Distant
Every prayer is read aloud in the Near to God app. Close your eyes and listen, even with your screen locked.
Father,
quiet the noise within me so I can listen well.
Free me from hearing only what confirms what I already want.
Make me receptive to correction, attentive to wisdom, and sensitive to the needs around me.
Help me distinguish urgency from importance.
Guide my thoughts and desires until my choices reflect love, truth, humility, and faithful courage.
Let my listening lead to action, not merely reflection.
Once the path becomes clear enough, help me move with courage while remaining teachable along the way.
As I seek direction, align my motives with love and truth.
Keep me teachable after I make a choice, willing to correct my course, and attentive to the consequences my decisions create for others.
Thank You for receiving me as I am, not only as I hope to become.
Let Your patient love steady me, and help me extend that same patience and kindness to the people I encounter.
Amen.
Bible verses to pray with it
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.”
“I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.”
“But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.”
“Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.”
Reflect
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