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Prayer Guide.Pray the Word.

This is not a prayer list that never changes. Each series gives us a direction to pray in. We pray the book we are preaching. When Malachi tells a weary people that God still loves them, still keeps covenant, and is still coming, we pray it back, for ourselves, for our families, and for Cleburne.

Three movements. Take one a day and cycle through the week, or pray all three in one sitting. There is no wrong way. The point is that your praying and your hearing are pointed at the same thing.

Malachi · The Coming Messenger · Oct 25 to Nov 22 2026

For yourself

Malachi 1:2 · Malachi 3:2 to 3, 6

Malachi opens with four words from God, I have loved you, and a people too tired to believe it. They answer, How have You loved us? And when love gets questioned, worship turns into leftovers. The blind animal, the lame one, whatever was left at the end of the week.

So begin where God begins. He has loved you, and He does not change. Then let Him sit at the fire. He refines like silver, not to burn you up, but to burn you pure. Ask Him to show you where He has been getting your leftovers, and bring Him your first and your best again, your time, your gifts, and your giving, as worship and not as fear.

Father, You have loved me, and You do not change. Forgive me for the tired worship and the leftover hours. Sit as the refiner over my life and burn me pure, not to ash. I bring You my first and my best, because You are a great King and You are worthy of it.

For your family

Malachi 2:10, 14 to 15 · Malachi 4:6

Malachi tells us the LORD stands as witness to the promises made in our homes. The kitchen table and the altar are wired together, and how we keep covenant with one another is part of how we worship Him. Then the Old Testament closes with a promise, that God would turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers.

Pray this over the people in your home by name. For faithfulness that keeps its word when it would be easier to walk away. For grace over every place a promise has already broken. And for hearts turned back toward one another, especially between the generations, the parent and the child, the grandparent and the grandchild.

Lord, You are the witness in this house. Guard our hearts so that we keep faith with one another. Where promises have been broken, bring Your mercy and Your healing. Turn the hearts of the parents to the children and the hearts of the children to the parents, and let this home be faithful to You and to each other.

For Cleburne

Malachi 1:11 · Malachi 3:16 to 18

In the middle of a rebuke, God makes a promise. From the rising of the sun to its setting, My name will be great among the nations. And at the end of the book, when people said it was vain to serve God, those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and He listened, and He wrote their names in a book of remembrance.

So pray for the city around you. For the neighbor who has quietly decided that serving God does not pay. For the people of God across Cleburne to keep speaking to one another with faith instead of complaint. And pray that the difference between serving God and not serving Him would be plain to see, because His name is meant to be great in this city too.

God, let Your name be great in Cleburne, from the rising of the sun to its setting. Where people have decided it is vain to serve You, show them Your faithfulness. Make Your people here a people who speak life to one another, and let this city see the One who is coming, the Sun of Righteousness, with healing in His wings.
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