PUSH Network - Prayer Ministry

"Teach us to number our days" is a timeless prayer from Psalm 90:12 that asks for the wisdom to recognize the brevity of life. It means living with intentionality, grace, and eternal perspective, transforming the awareness of time into a heart of wisdom.

Living this out involves several daily practices:

Embrace the Present: Acknowledge that the past cannot be altered and the future is not promised. Focus your energy on making your current interactions, work, and thoughts meaningful.

Evaluate Your Priorities: Use your time to invest deeply in things that matter eternally. Consider your schedule, investments, and relationships as purposeful.

Shift from Fear to Peace: Recognize that your times are in God's hands. Approaching the finite nature of life with faith—rather than panic or dread—allows you to embrace each day as a gift.

"Grace beyond suffering" refers to the spiritual concept that God's grace does not always remove hardship, but rather provides sustaining strength and peace that transcends the pain. It emphasizes trusting in God’s purposes, finding endurance, and focusing on eternal hope rather than the immediate trial.

This is captured in 2 Corinthians 12:9, where the apostle Paul is told, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness".

Sustaining Grace: Grace is given to navigate through deep pain without losing faith, rather than simply escaping the trial.

Transformational Purpose: Suffering can deepen our faith and lead us to spiritual maturity, it also encourages reliance on God, and the display His glory in our lives when we are truly transformed.

Peace with God means our consciences are cleared (Hebrews 10:22; Titus 3:5). The overwhelming weight of guilt that plagued us all is gone, placed on Jesus on the cross (Colossians 2:14; 1 Peter 2:24). The shame that we rightly felt for the wicked deeds we had done was carried by Jesus. God the Father adopts us as His own children and invites us to “come boldly before the throne of grace” to commune with Him and ask for what we need (Hebrews 4:16). For the Christian, maintaining a sense of peace with God means we keep our ongoing sins and failures confessed (1 John 1:9). We don’t have to keep confessing in order to establish peace with God; Jesus did that at the cross when we believed. Truly born-again people live in ongoing attitudes of repentance so that no sin will take root to defile them again (John 3:3; Romans 6:1–4). Unconfessed sin mars the joyful fellowship between a child of God and his Father.

Peace with God also allows the Christian to live without fear of death or eternity. Our hope is secure in the knowledge that Jesus has done all that was necessary to make us right with God (Matthew 5:17; John 3:16–18). Our last breath on earth will be our first breath in heaven (2 Corinthians 5:6–8; Luke 16:22). The Holy Spirit has been given to us like a promise ring, a certainty that a greater event will surely take place (2 Corinthians 1:22; 5:5). Right now, the Holy Spirit lives within us to guide, convict, comfort, and remind us of Jesus’ completed sacrifice on our behalf (John 14:16–17; 16:8–11; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 6:19; Ephesians 1:13–14).