For the next few weeks all of our home study will be based on the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church's 50-day Prayer Journal

Monday – Read Psalm 145:1-2

Home many times in these verses does David promise to extoll or praise the name of God?

Extoll means to glorify or make known. List three reasons God is deserving of your worship.

How might it change each day if you started by reflecting on God and extolling Him? Take time to do that each day.

Tuesday – Read Psalm 145:3-7

Do you spend time each day praising and extolling God?

What can you do to help the “next” generation to know God?

Take time to pray for our children and youth (at MFC and in NWYM) and the people who work with them.

Find a way to share God’s truth with some who is younger than you.

Wednesday – Read Psalm 145:8-12

How is God described here, what stands out to you?

Do you think this is how most people view God? Why or why not?

How have you experienced God’s grace and compassion in the last year? The last month? The last week? Today?

Ask God to prepare you to speak of Him to someone today.

Thursday – Read Psalm 145:13-16

What are some ways that God has provided for you?

Verse 15 speaks to God meeting needs in the proper time, remember some times when God’s timing was perfect in meeting your needs.

Take time to remember what God has done in your life and give Him thanks.

Friday – Read Psalm 145:17-21

What stands out to you in this passage?

Name at least five promises found in this prayer.

How have you seen these promises to be true in your life?

Take some time to pray these promises for yourself and for someone else who you know needs them.

Saturday – Read Luke 3:15-20

Monday – Read Exodus 4:18-23

In verse 22 how what does God call His people Israel?

What then is His relationship to them?

What does this passage tell us about how God cared for His children Israel?

What does it tell us about how God cares for us today?

Tuesday – Read Psalm 68:1-6

What do these verses tell us about the power of God?

Why may we who know and follow God rejoice?

How does God become a father to the fatherless?

What hope does this give you?

Wednesday – Read Jeremiah 3:14-20

In verse 19, what kind of relationship does God say that He wants with His people?

According to verse 20, how did His people respond?

How can we avoid being unfaithful to God as our Father?

How does this passage challenge you?

How will you respond?

Thursday – Read Romans 8:12-17

How do we become children of God?

How should that impact and change our lives?

What is the difference between being a slave and being a child?

As heirs of God, with Jesus, what do we have to look forward to in our lives on earth and in eternity?

How should that impact how we live?

Friday – Read Matthew 6:5-15

How does Jesus describe God here?

What hope does this give us as we pray?

What warning does God give us in verses 14 and 15?

How should this passage change the way that you view God, yourself and others?

Saturday – Read Luke 3:1-20

Monday – Read Acts 4:8-12

What does verse 11 mean?

Why is salvation found in no one else but Jesus?

What happens if a person is trusting in anything else to save them?

How is Jesus challenging you?

How will you respond?

Tuesday – Read I Peter 1:17-21

What price was paid for our redemption?

When did God develop His plan to redeem and save humankind?

What is significant about that?

What does this mean to your life?

Wednesday – Read Romans 1:14-17

To whom does the good news of the gospel apply?

According to verse 17 how are we saved and how are we to live?

How does this challenge you?

What will you do?

Thursday – Read Matthew 4:12-17

Here Jesus is applying a passage from the prophet Isaiah to Himself.

What is meant here by the “shadow of death?”

Who is the light?

How does the light chase away the shadow?

What hope does this give you?

Friday – Read Zechariah 12:10 and Romans 11:25-26

In these days, why has God kept the Jewish people from seeing Jesus as the Messiah?

What difference did it make in your life when you received Jesus as your Savior?

What will happen when the Jewish people finally recognize Jesus as the Messiah?

Pray for the people in your life who need to accept Jesus and for God’s plan of Salvation for all people to be fulfilled.

Saturday – Read Luke 2:41-52

Monday – Read Matthew 5:17-20

What is the difference between Jesus fulfilling the Law and the Prophets rather than abolishing them?

Since we can’t fulfill the Law and the Prophets on our own, how can we enter the kingdom of heaven?

Is this a message of discouragement or hope?

How do these words challenge you?

How will you respond?

Tuesday – Read Genesis 17:9-15

How important was it to God to have a lasting sign of the covenant that He was making with Abraham and his descendants.

How can you tell?

What covenant Has God made with the followers of Jesus?

What sign has He given us? (See Ephesians 1:13-14)

Wednesday – Read Deuteronomy 30:6

Who is the only person who can circumcise our hearts? Why?

What is to be the end result of this work in our hearts?

How does this keep us better connected to God?

How does this verse challenge you? What will you do?

Thursday – Read Exodus 13:1-2 and 11-16

Why were the Israelites called to give over to the Lord the first born male of humans and animals?

In verse 13 what are parents called to do with the first born sons they commit to the Lord?

How can we commit our children to the Lord today?

Why is this important?

Friday – Read Romans 12:1-2

What does it mean to be a living sacrifice to God?

Why are we to offer ourselves as living sacrifices to God?

How do we do that?

What difference does it make in our lives?

Take time to commit yourself to God and His plan for you.

Saturday – Read Luke 2:25-39