Pocket Prayers for Graduates: 40 Simple Prayers that Bring Hope and Direction
By Max Lucado
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About this ebook
Celebrate one of life's most important milestones with Scripture readings and guided prayers for graduates.
Graduation is one of life's most exciting occasions. It can also be a source of uncertainty and anxiety.
- What comes after graduation day?
- More education?
- A career?
- Starting a family?
Often this time in life can bring more questions than answers, but Max Lucado offers hope and direction by pointing to the Answer to all of life's question. Pocket Prayers for Graduates includes:
- 40 Scripture readings covering important truths and promises from God's Word
- Guided prayers written especially for those considering their futures post-graduation
Pocket Prayers for Graduates offers encouragement and hope for those in the middle of one of life's most pivotal moments. Give your graduate the gift of wisdom from God's Word that they need as the begin this new chapter of their journey.
Max Lucado
Since entering the ministry in 1978, Max Lucado has served churches in Miami, Florida; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and San Antonio, Texas. He currently serves as the teaching minister of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio. He is the recipient of the 2021 ECPA Pinnacle Award for his outstanding contribution to the publishing industry and society at large. He is America's bestselling inspirational author with more than 150 million products in print. Visit his website at MaxLucado.com Facebook.com/MaxLucado Instagram.com/MaxLucado Twitter.com/MaxLucado Youtube.com/MaxLucadoOfficial The Max Lucado Encouraging Word Podcast
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Pocket Prayers for Graduates - Max Lucado
The Pocket Prayer
Hello, my name is Max. I’m a recovering prayer wimp. I doze off when I pray. My thoughts zig, then zag, then zig again. Distractions swarm like gnats on a summer night. If attention deficit disorder applies to prayer, I am afflicted. When I pray, I think of a thousand things I need to do. I forget the one thing I set out to do: pray.
Some people excel in prayer. They inhale heaven and exhale God. They are the SEAL Team Six of intercession. They would rather pray than sleep. Why is it that I sleep when I pray? They belong to the PGA: Prayer Giants Association. I am a card-carrying member of the PWA: Prayer Wimps Anonymous.
Can you relate? It’s not that we don’t pray at all. We all pray some.
On tearstained pillows we pray.
In grand liturgies we pray.
At the sight of geese in flight, we pray.
Quoting ancient devotions, we pray.
We pray to stay sober, centered, or solvent. We pray when the lump is deemed malignant. When the money runs out before the month does. When the unborn baby hasn’t kicked in a while. We all pray . . . some.
But wouldn’t we all like to pray . . .
More?
Better?
Deeper?
Stronger?
With more fire, faith, or fervency?
Yet we have kids to feed, bills to pay, deadlines to meet. The calendar pounces on our good intentions like a tiger on a rabbit. We want to pray, but when?
We want to pray, but why? We might as well admit it. Prayer is odd, peculiar. Speaking into space. Lifting words into the sky. We can’t even get the cable company to answer us, yet God will? The doctor is too busy, but God isn’t? We have our doubts about prayer.
And we have our checkered history with prayer: unmet expectations, unanswered requests. We can barely genuflect for the scar tissue on our knees. God, to some, is the ultimate heartbreaker. Why keep tossing the coins of our longings into a silent pool? He jilted me once . . . but not