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Parable Of The Wheat And Tares Prayer

A short, Scripture-shaped parable prayer for an ordinary moment of Christian faith.

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A prayer to pray now

Lord, every Christmas dinner I have wanted to pull up the weeds. I look around the table and start sorting who belongs and who is faking, and before the salad I am playing judge from my chair. Then I remember Your word from Matthew 13 — let both grow together until the harvest. That is Your call, not mine. I am not the one to swing the harvest blade. I can barely tell the wheat from the weeds in my own life, and the field beyond me is past my reach. Teach me to be patient with the church. Teach me to be patient with my brother. Teach me to be patient with myself, where good and bad still grow tangled together. Leave the judging to the angels who can tell the difference. Free me to love the field as it is today and trust You with the sorting. Make me wheat, slowly, where I can be made wheat. Christ Jesus, You are a better farmer than I am an inspector. Amen.

How to pray it

  1. Read it slowly. Move through this prayer one line at a time, out loud if you can, letting each phrase land before the next.
  2. Make it personal. Pause where a line meets your day and name the person, fear, or hope it touches before God.
  3. Carry it with you. Keep one sentence with you — on your phone or in your pocket — and return to it when the day gets loud.

Verses to pray

Pray these slowly, one line at a time. Scripture quoted from a public-domain translation.

  1. Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
    Matthew 13:30
  2. Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
    James 5:7

Questions about this prayer

When should I pray parable of the wheat and tares prayer?

Pray it whenever the words fit your moment — at the start of the day, in a hard stretch, or when you simply want to turn toward God.

Which Bible verses anchor this prayer?

This prayer is anchored in Matthew 13:30, James 5:7. The "Verses to pray" section above quotes them in full.

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