There is something about October that pulls my heart back to simple prayers. I suppose it might be because my wandering heart has been tuned to this song of lament over and over again.
A few years ago I started writing Threadbare Prayers on my blog during a wilderness season. It all began with..
Psalm 23:1
1 Peter 5:7
2 Chronicles 20:12
Nahum 1:7
Deuteronomy 32:10
These were the pages in my Bible where my heart had lingered. I did not have a plan for these prayers, except to write and share them here, as they bubbled up in my own heart.
In the Fall of 2019 I sent this thread of an idea to my agent. She sent them to a publisher. And a month later I was sitting in random coffee shops around town wrestling out 95 more Threadbare Prayers writing the book.
I could not have guessed when I was writing it, that this tiny prayer book would come out in 2020—a year that marked us all in an extraordinary way. Or that it would resonate so deeply.
Along the way I’ve learned so much about the faithfulness and sovereignty. I’ve also learned…
Prayer is how I hold onto Jesus and push back fear.
Lament is a journey and 100 prayers only scratches the surface.
Simple prayers based on Scripture are enough.
Unlikely people can be prayer warriors.
God has asked me to write and speak on prayer because I am a control freak and prayer is an act of surrender.
I realized that last one a few weeks ago. Apparently God is not finished with me yet. And maybe that is the greatest lesson of all. Prayer has formed me in a way that I had not expected. And by his constant grace, God is still using it to take my threadbare heart and make it like his.
Looking forward,
Stacey
P.S. You can find Threadbare Prayer wherever books are sold. For more details about this and my other books click here.
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