8at8

Dear friends,

As we consider the work God has done in and through this prayer community over the past two years, we are amazed and grateful. Since its inception in March of 2020, 8@8 expanded to over 12,000 people around the world. How beautiful to see how God drew so many to himself through a daily practice of scripture-informed prayer!

We created a short video expressing our gratitude to each of you for your involvement in 8@8 and our encouragement to continue to seek the Lord in the pages of scripture and in prayer!

Though our online offerings are now at an end, please consider continuing this practice using our book, On the Eighth Day, a yearly guide to prayer with our 8@8 reflections ordered around the church calendar year.

It is our hope and prayer that this book will be good company for you as you continue to pray the scriptures in community and find daily sustenance in Christ.

We are thankful for each one of you. May the Lord bless you richly as you continue to rest in his grace and find strength in his presence!

In Christ,

The 8@8 Team (Sally, Willa, Madison, & Kari)

Thank you to our 8@8 community! As we consider the work God has done in and through this prayer community over the past two years, we are amazed and grateful.You can find more information a...

In our call to prayer this evening, Madison Perry reminds us that though there is much to lament in the world and in our own hearts, yet we can still rejoice. "We know how the story ends." May you rest in that promised fulfillment tonight as you pray!

802 - Psalm 14 — 8@8 We know how the story ends.

In our call to prayer this evening, we contemplate the command to praise God. ". In this psalm, we are charged to praise God because of both his surpassing greatness and his acts of power." May you find hope in God's greatness and power, and may you praise him tonight in prayer!

801 - Psalm 150 — 8@8 In this psalm, we are charged to praise God because of both his surpassing greatness and his acts of power.

"Ask for his Spirit to give you fresh insight into his perfect power, his tender care and his abiding love for you." May you be at peace this evening as you come before the Lord in prayer!

800 - Psalm 147:1-11 — 8@8 Ask for his Spirit to give you fresh insight into his perfect power, his tender care and his abiding love for you.

As you come to pray this evening, be encouraged. Our God "remains through our doubts, through our struggles and through our fears. He will remain to the end, until we no longer need eyes of faith, for we will behold his kingdom in its fullness." May you rest in our faithful God tonight in prayer!

799 - Psalm 145:9-16 — 8@8 He remains through our doubts, through our struggles and through our fears. He will remain to the end, until we no longer need eyes of faith, for we will behold his kingdom in its fullness.

In our reflection this evening, Brandon James Nelson Walsh urges us: "As you pray, ask your Father to make you a witness to Jesus." May you become more and more a witness to Christ as you pray!

798 - Acts 1:15-26 — 8@8 As you pray, ask your Father to make you a witness to Jesus

In our reflection this evening, Brandon James Nelson Walsh encourages us: "The Lord is teaching us what it means to live in light of the Resurrection, in light of the Kingdom he has already inaugurated and will one day fulfill." May you hope in this reality tonight as you pray!

797 - Acts 1:1-14 — 8@8

"As you pray, open your mouth and taste, open your eyes and see the goodness of God. Run to him and be blessed." Thank you, Willa Kane, for this reflection! May each of you know the goodness of the Lord tonight as you pray!

796 - Psalm 34 — 8@8 As you pray, open your mouth and taste, open your eyes and see the goodness of God. Run to him and be blessed.

As you come to pray this evening, consider: "At every moment of your life, you can live firmly ensconced in God’s kingdom." Thank you, Madison Perry, for this reflection! May each of you hope in this truth tonight in prayer!

795 - Psalm 29:9-10 — 8@8 At every moment of your life, you can live firmly ensconced in God’s kingdom.

In tonight's reflection, Sally Breedlove reminds us: "Paul makes it clear that love is fundamental; it is the one thing we need." May you ask the Lord to enable you to walk in the way of love tonight!

794 - Colossians 3:12-25 — 8@8 Paul makes it clear that love is fundamental; it is the one thing we need.

"Praise God as you pray. It is his life in you that will remake you. Join him in the work he is doing." Thank you, Sally Breedlove, for this reflection! May you trust in & join in God's remaking work tonight as you pray!

793 - Colossians 2:20-3:11 — 8@8 Praise God as you pray. It is his life in you that will remake you. Join him in the work he is doing.

In tonight's reflection, Sally Breedlove encourages us: "Thank your Father God that you belong to Jesus, to his family and to his grand purposes in this world." May you hope in that deep belonging this evening as you pray!

792 - Colossians 2:8-19 — 8@8 Thank your Father God that you belong to Jesus, to his family and to his grand purposes in this world.

In our call to prayer this evening, Sally Breedlove give us this beautiful encouragement: "We can wake up tomorrow morning trusting that Jesus is the center of the universe and that he holds all things together." May you rest in this reality tonight as you pray!

791 - Colossians 1:21-2:7 — 8@8 We can wake up tomorrow morning trusting that Jesus is the center of the universe and that he holds all things together.

In tonight's call to prayer, Sally Breedlove urges us to contemplate the larger story that God is telling in our world: "In Jesus, God is rescuing people who will join him in this work of reestablishing the rightful rule of King Jesus." May you hope in this reality as you pray!

790 - Colossians 1:1-20 — 8@8 In Jesus, God is rescuing people who will join him in this work of reestablishing the rightful rule of King Jesus.

In tonight's reflection, Sally Breedlove highlights the reasons we have to rejoice: "Not everything in our story is good, but it is all held in the hands of the good and beautiful God." May you rest in his goodness as you pray!

789 - Philippians 4 — 8@8 Not everything in our story is good, but it is all held in the hands of the good and beautiful God. 

In our call to prayer this evening, Sally Breedlove encourages us: "Our real joy is that we are citizens (already!) of heaven, and we are waiting for our Savior King to arrive." May you hold to this hope tonight as you pray!

788 - Philippians 3 — 8@8 Our real joy is that we are citizens (already!) of heaven, and we are waiting for our Savior King to arrive. 

As you come to pray this evening, "Hold to Jesus, and more importantly, know that he holds you." May you know his nearness tonight in prayer.

787 - Philippians 2:12-18 — 8@8 Hold to Jesus, and more importantly, know that he holds you.

"Fruit is a sign of rich soil, of deep roots, of true life, of a wise and worthy gardener. The fruit of righteousness in our lives comes through the power of the Lord Jesus as we continually bow our knee to him and his kingdom rule, to the glory and the praise of God." May you rest in this truth tonight as you pray!

786 - Philippians 1:27-30 — 8@8 Fruit is a sign of rich soil, of deep roots, of true life, of a wise and worthy gardener.

As you come to pray this evening, consider: "The only thing that makes death bearable is our Savior standing on the other side of it, holding the keys to the grave." May you rejoice in our Savior who has overcome death!

785 - Philippians 1:18b-26 — 8@8 The only thing that makes death bearable is our Savior standing on the other side of it, holding the keys to the grave.

"Will you ask for the faith to peer past what you are experiencing and hope in the deeper things that God promises to work in your life?" May you lean into the hope God holds out to you this evening as you pray!

784 - Philippians 1:12-18 — 8@8 Will you ask for the faith to peer past what you are experiencing and hope in the deeper things that God promises to work in your life?

God will be faithful to grow the seeds he has planted in us. We can pray with this same kind of joyful confidence in God’s commitment to our wholeness, our flourishing, our maturity as his people.

783 - Philippians 1:3-11 — 8@8

"What really matters, John writes, is fidelity to the truth of the gospel, walking in this truth, and offering oneself to it in word and deed." Thank you, Gayle Heaslip, for this call to prayer based on 3 John!

782 - 3 John — 8@8 What really matters, John writes, is fidelity to the truth of the gospel, walking in this truth, and offering oneself to it in word and deed.

In our call to prayer this evening, Madison Perry urges us: "Plead for God’s will to be done, not only in the world outside, but in our own lives." May you find rest in God's rule tonight as you pray!

781 - Psalm 20 — 8@8 Plead for God’s will to be done, not only in the world outside, but in our own lives. 

In tonight's reflection, Sally Breedlove asks: "How is the Spirit calling you to receive the restrictions that shape your own life right now? How is he inviting you to see your minutes and hours as a gift?" May you hope in the Lord's kind leading tonight as you pray!

780 - Ephesians 6:13-18 — 8@8 How is the Spirit calling you to receive the restrictions that shape your own life right now? How is he inviting you to see your minutes and hours as a gift?

In tonight's call to prayer, Gayle Heaslip asks us to consider the love of God: "he relates to us only in love and exercises his authority for the sake of love." May you lean into that love tonight as you pray!

779 - Ephesians 6:1-12 — 8@8 he relates to us only in love and exercises his authority for the sake of love.

In our reflection this evening, Gayle Heaslip encourages us: "As you pray, ask the Lord to fill you with longing for his goodness and truth."

778 - Ephesians 5 — 8@8 As you pray, ask the Lord to fill you with longing for his goodness and truth.

"For in Christ there is abundant light, light that makes clear to us what true righteousness and holiness looks like as we gaze on him whose life is the light of men, shining in the darkness." Thank you, Gayle Heaslip, for this reflection! May each of you live as children of the light tonight as you pray!

777 - Ephesians 4:17-32 — 8@8 For in Christ there is abundant light, light that makes clear to us what true righteousness and holiness looks like as we gaze on him whose life is the light of men, shining in the darkness.

In our call to prayer this evening, Gayle Heaslip asks: "As we sit among the fragments of shattered dreams, do we dare to envision the healing presence of God’s kingdom as a growing reality?" May you hope in the healing presence of the Lord tonight as you pray!

"God’s power is marked by love. It takes the shape of the cross. It moves in the illuminating and empowering wind of the Holy Spirit." Thank you, Elizabeth Gatewood, for this beautiful reflection! May each of you know the love of God this evening as you pray!

775 - Ephesians 3:14-21 — 8@8 God’s power is marked by love. It takes the shape of the cross. It moves in the illuminating and empowering wind of the Holy Spirit.

In our call to prayer this evening, Elizabeth Gatewood urges us to remember: "God has given each of us a particular vocation and a particular place within God’s big story." May you rest in God's kindness toward you and purpose for you tonight as you pray!

774 - Ephesians 3:1-13 — 8@8 God has given each of us a particular vocation and a particular place within God’s big story.

As you prepare to pray this evening, consider this encouragement from Willa Kane: "Jesus himself is our peace, even when all hope for reconciliation seems lost." May you press into the peace of Christ tonight as you pray!

773 - Ephesians 2:12-17 — 8@8 Jesus himself is our peace, even when all hope for reconciliation seems lost.

In our call to prayer this evening, Willa Kane reminds us of this beautiful reality: "We were hopeless, helpless and alone. But God, rich in mercy, made us alive together with Christ!" May you rest in this truth tonight as you pray!

772 - Ephesians 2:1-8 — 8@8 We were hopeless, helpless and alone. But God, rich in mercy, made us alive together with Christ!

In our call to prayer this evening, we consider the mystery of God's power at work in us. "God’s spirit indwells us and his power is in us—made perfect, in fact, in our very weakness." Thank you, Elizabeth Gatewood, for this beautiful reflection!

771 - Ephesians 1:15-23 — 8@8 God’s spirit indwells us and his power is in us—made perfect, in fact, in our very weakness.

In our call to prayer this evening, Elizabeth Gatewood asks us to contemplate: "What would it look like to be so rooted in God's story and so saturated in thankfulness that we simply could not help joyfully recounting a list of all of the rich blessings that God has given us?" May you know this rootedness in the Lord tonight as you pray!

In our call to prayer this evening, Brandon James Nelson Walsh reminds us: "Beyond anything else, Christ’s greatest gift to the Church is himself, his own life which is the light of men." May you draw near to this life and light tonight as you pray!

"Be still and know that the Lord is God." Thank you, Brandon James Nelson Walsh, for this beautiful reflection. May each of you know the peace of Christ this evening as you pray!

768 - Psalm 46:4-11 — 8@8 Be still and know that the Lord is God.

As you prepare to pray this evening, contemplate these words by Madison Perry: "Jesus reigns now and forever, even now in the midst of our unresolved pain and questions." May you trust in our risen Savior tonight as you pray!

767 - Luke 24:36-43, 50-53 — 8@8 Jesus reigns now and forever, even now in the midst of our unresolved pain and questions.

"God's dew will rest upon us, and we will flourish as these plants do in the glorious early summer months." Thank you, Elizabeth Gatewood, for this beautiful call to prayer. May each of you know the peace of Christ tonight as you pray!

765 - Hosea 14 — 8@8 God's dew will rest upon us, and we will flourish as these plants do in the glorious early summer months. 

In our call to prayer this evening, Elizabeth Gatewood reminds us: "God will not allow the destructive bent of his children to be the final word. He will bring them home and redeem them. He will be faithful even when his children are not." May you trust in our Father tonight as you pray!

765 - Hosea 11 — 8@8 God will not allow the destructive bent of his children to be the final word. He will bring them home and redeem them. He will be faithful even when his children are not. 

"As you pray, thank God for his faithful pursuit of you." Thank you, Elizabeth Gatewood, for tonight's call to prayer! May each of you rest in God's faithful love this evening as you pray!

764 - Hosea 2:16-23 — 8@8 As you pray, thank God for his faithful pursuit of you.