When I began my teenage years, growing up in my home consisted of prayer time every morning. We were taught to memorize Scripture and to pray Scripture over our lives. We learned how to pray from learning how to study the Word of God.

One of those passages that we prayed, every single day, was also the one we memorized – Psalm 91.

We would always pray this prayer as a prayer over all of us. We learned how to pray every day.

It is a powerful prayer that reminds me daily of God’s protection on my life and those I love. We live in a dangerous world and so it is more important than ever to pray for His protection on our families and to also be thankful to God, in faith, for His protection.

It is an item of faith that we are children of God; there is plenty of evidence in us against it. The faith that surmounts this evidence and that is able to warm itself at the fire of God’s love, instead of having to steal love and self-acceptance from other sources, is actually the root of holiness…. We are not saved by the love we exercise, but by the love we trust. – Richard Lovelace