INSIGHT FOR TODAY WITH CHUCK SWINDOLL.
Insight for Today 18th May 2026 provides practical, relevant insight into today’s issues with Biblical principles applied. This devotional will help you connect with God on a daily basis, while also equipping you with a Bible-based approach to transforming your everyday life. Insight for Today” is a daily devotional written by Chuck Swindoll.
The Topic of Chuck Swindoll Daily Devotional 18th May 2026 is “Real Prayer ”.
Scripture: Matthew 6:6
But when you pray, go away by yourself, shut the door behind you, and pray to your Father in private. Then your Father, who sees everything, will reward you.
TODAY’S INSIGHT – 18TH MAY 2026.
Prayer was never intended to make us feel guilty. It was never intended to be a verbal marathon for only the initiated—no secret-code talk for the clergy or a public display of piety. None of that. Real prayer—the kind of prayer Jesus mentioned and modeled—is real, spontaneous, down-to-earth communication with the living Lord that results in relief from personal anxiety and a calm assurance that our God is in full control of our circumstances.
I encourage you to start over. Form some brand-new habits as you fight off the old tendency to slump back into meaningless jargon. Get a fresh, new grip on prayer. It is essential for survival.
Many years ago, I decided to do that very thing. I was fed up with empty words and pharisaical phrases. In my search for new meaning, I came across this brief description of prayer, which I set on my desk and carried in the front of my Bible for years. It’s attributed to a seventeenth-century Roman Catholic Frenchman named François Fénelon. Although written centuries ago, it has an undeniable ring of relevance:
“I think you cannot treat God with too much confidence. Tell Him all that is in your heart, as one unloads one’s heart to a dear friend of all that gives it pain or pleasure. Tell Him your troubles, that He may comfort you; tell Him your joys, that He may sober them; tell Him your longing, that He may purify them; tell Him your misliking, that He may help you to conquer them; talk to Him of your temptations, that He may shield you from them; show Him all the wounds of your heart, that He may heal them.
Lay bare to Him your indifference to good, your depraved tastes for evil, your dissipation, your instability, your leanings to a corrupt world. Tell Him how self-love disposes you to be unjust to your neighbors, how vanity tempts you to be insincere and to dazzle those with whom you are concerned; how your pride disguises you to yourself as well as to others. If you thus pour out to Him all your weaknesses, needs, and troubles, there will be no lack of what to say; you will never exhaust this subject; it is continually being renewed.”
About Chuck Swindoll Daily Devotional “Insight for Today”.
Today’s Insight is written by Chucks Swindoll. Chuck Swindoll has devoted his life to the accurate, practical teaching and application of God’s Word and His grace. Since 1988 he has served as the founder and senior pastor-teacher of Stonebriar Community Church in Texas, but his listening audience extends far beyond a local church body. The radio broadcast of this devotional program has aired for more than 35 years. Read more.
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