121 Days of Prayer

Take Up His Cross and Follow Me

The purposes of this prayer are: Ability/Success and Perseverance.

Heavenly Father, please give us the ability and the determination to take up our crosses and follow Jesus. Jesus said, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.” Matthew 16:24–27 (ESV). Lord, keep us on the narrow path, we pray. Amen.