60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon

Send us Fan Mail Inexhaustible Hope “Hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts…” — Romans 5:5 None of what we are dealing with is easy. There are burdens we carry, questions we live with, and times when the road ahead feels dangerous and uncertain. But the love of God has been poured into our hearts. And when that love begins to overflow among us, it gives r...

Send us Fan Mail A Prayer When Hope Is Being Formed God, Some seasons prove harder than we expected. The road feels longer. The burdens feel heavier. And hope does not always come easily. Yet we trust that You are still at work. When challenges come, give us the strength to endure. When endurance is required, shape in us a character that is resilient and hopeful. And from that character, let hope...

Send us Fan Mail How Hope Becomes a Part of Who We Are “Affliction produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.” — Romans 5:3–4 These words are as challenging as they are hope-filled. But they are not empty platitudes. The one who wrote them knew hardship. He had been arrested and beaten more than once. He had been slandered. He had known long seasons of doing...

Send us Fan Mail A Prayer to Keep the Heart Tender God, You know how hard times wear on us. You see how frustration replaces trust and how fear can overwhelm hope. When the road feels longer than we expected, our patience grows thin and our hearts begin to close. Keep our hearts from hardening. Help us hold on to hope, to joy, to gratitude — the quiet gifts that keep our hearts tender. And when th...

Send us Fan Mail When Hard Times Harden the Heart “Do not harden your hearts, as… in the wilderness.” — Psalm 95:8 All of us will run into hard times. Some of us are in those hard times right now. The journey through the wilderness turned out to be a much longer, harder road than anyone expected. Along the way, many lost their patience, their hope, their joy, their gratitude. Their hearts hardened...

Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for When We Wonder Where You Are God, There are days when we ask: Are You here? When hope is running low and anxiety is running high, we do not always feel Your presence. Receive our questions. Keep us from believing that our doubts disqualify us. And when we fear the road we’re on, remind us: You are already ahead of us. Amen. #60SecondsofHope #EveningPrayer #FaithAndDou...

Send us Fan Mail When We Wonder Where God Is “Is the LORD among us or not?” — Exodus 17:7 A question born of fear, fatigue, and frustration. A question asked when hope was running low and anxiety was running high.  A question asked when they had run out of answers. And yet— It was a faithful question. Honest. Raw. Without pretense. And God’s answer? “I will be standing there in front of you.” Some...

Send us Fan Mail A Prayer When What’s Missing Is All We See Loving God, You know how easily we become overwhelmed. You have carried us before. You have provided in ways we did not expect. You have brought us through more than we remember. And still, when something is lacking — a setback, a shortage, an uncertainty, a delay — it can become all we see. We grow anxious. We grow impatient. We complain...

Send us Fan Mail When What’s Missing Is All We See “But the people thirsted there for water, and the people complained…” — Exodus 17:3 They were tired. Frustrated. Thirsty. They had been delivered from Egypt. They had seen the sea part. They had walked through on dry ground. But in this moment, none of that mattered. What was missing now felt more real than what had already been given. So they com...

Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for When We’re Not There Yet Faithful God, We would prefer to have it settled — for ourselves and for those we love. We would prefer clarity. An answer. A way forward. Guide us, step by step. When progress feels slow, keep us from despair. When we have to turn around, give us the humility to do so. When we are moving, steady us. When we wonder if anything is happening at...

Send us Fan Mail We Get There in Stages “…the whole congregation of the Israelites journeyed by stages, as the LORD commanded.” — Exodus 17:1 We would all like to get there yesterday. To be healed — within and among us. To be wiser — as a people. To be stronger — not alone, but together. To be finished with the struggle. But growth rarely happens all at once. It happens in increments. In stages. I...

Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for Holy Audacity Loving God, You have always worked through unlikely people. Through those who felt too old, too weak, too insignificant. You placed a promise in Abram and Sarai. You called Moses. You strengthened Esther. You steadied Nehemiah. You formed disciples who would not turn back. Do the same in us. When we feel insignificant, remind us that Your promise has nev...

Send us Fan Mail The Audacity to Believe “…and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” — Genesis 12:3 Abram and Sarai were well past what most would call their prime. No empire. No army. No following. Just a vision and a promise. They believed their lives could matter beyond their own years. Moses stood before Pharaoh with nothing but a call. Esther spoke when silence would have be...

Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for Lives That Lift Others Loving God, You are the One who blesses. You open doors. You create opportunity. You give strength, vision, and favor. And sometimes we forget why. We want our work to count. We want our efforts to be noticed. We hope success will finally tell us we belong. Reorder our hearts. Remind us that Your blessing was never meant to stop with us. If You...

Send us Fan Mail The Purpose of Our Success “I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.” — Genesis 12:2 We all want to succeed. We want to build something meaningful. We want our work to matter. We want our names to stand for something good. And there is nothing wrong with that. But in this promise to Abram and Sarai, we are re...

Send us Fan Mail A Prayer To Become A Blessing Loving God, You see us. You see when we feel less than. You see the hurts we carry. You see how quickly we rise to defend ourselves. Redirect us. When someone insults us, let their words fall away. Remove our need to repay them. Keep us from exhausting ourselves trying to prove ourselves. Remind us that our worth is not on trial. You have called us. Y...

Send us Fan Mail Called To Bless “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever tries to make you small — that I will take seriously… and all families of the earth will be blessed through you.” — Genesis 12:3 When God calls Abram and Sarai, there is no command to defend themselves. No calling to argue with their critics. No instruction to prove their worth. There is simply a promise. If someone tr...

Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for the Courage to Begin Faithful God, You call us forward even when we cannot see the whole path. You invite us to move before we have all the answers. And if we are honest, we prefer clarity. We prefer guarantees. We prefer comfort. Give us the courage to trust You when the future is not fully visible. Help us release what has always felt comfortable when it is no longe...

Send us Fan Mail Becoming Who We Are Meant To Be “Now the LORD said to Abram, ‘Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.’” — Genesis 12:1 Sometimes becoming who we are meant to be requires leaving what has always felt comfortable. God did not give Abram and Sarai a full explanation. There was no outline. No step-by-step instructions. Only a cal...

Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for Recognizing Our Fruit Loving God, You see what grows in us even when we do not. You see the patience forming and the resentment we still carry. You see compassion rising and the places where contempt tries to take root. You see our generosity — and the fear that sometimes restrains it. Search us gently. Not to shame us, but to help us see clearly. Where resentment lin...

Send us Fan Mail Do We Recognize Ourselves? “By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?” — Matthew 7:16 Our impulse to judge is strong. When we hear this verse, many of us want to use it as permission — to examine someone else’s life, to evaluate their behavior, to question their motives. And yet only a few verses earlier, the Gospel remi...

Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for Release Loving God, We confess how easily we keep accounts. We remember what was said. We remember what was taken. We remember what we believe is still owed. We say we want freedom, yet we hold onto the ledger. Teach us to release. Not to deny harm. Not to pretend wounds did not matter. But to surrender the right to collect. Close the accounts we hold against others....

Send us Fan Mail When Debts Remain “But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.” — Matthew 6:15 The gospel is not speaking about feelings. It is speaking about keeping accounts. Just moments earlier, we were taught to pray, “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” Debt language. Economic language. To forgive means to release. To cancel. To let it...

Send us Fan Mail A Prayer for What Truly Matters Loving God, We want a good life. We want peace. We want a life that feels full. We want relationships that last. But we confess how easily we chase what cannot satisfy. We reach. We strive. We accumulate. And still feel empty. Teach us to seek first. Turn our hearts toward Your Kingdom — a love-centered way of life. Form in us true righteousness — n...

Send us Fan Mail When We Pursue What Matters “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” — Matthew 6:33 We all want a good life. But we chase the wrong things, in the wrong places, for the wrong reasons — and then wonder why we feel empty. We don’t have peace. Our relationships are strained. And even when we reach our goals, we still feel...