The Prayer of Augur

The Prayer of Agur: A Devotional Guide for Prayer & Fasting

Most of us come to God with long lists. Agur came with two.

In Proverbs 30, a man named Agur son of Jakeh offers one of the most quietly radical prayers in all of Scripture. He does not open with praise or theological argument. He opens with a confession: I am weary. And then, after four verses of accumulating honesty about his own ignorance and the immensity of God, he prays two things — and only two.

Keep falsehood and lies far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.

No platform. No legacy. No abundance beyond what the day requires. Just truth and enough. For a man who understood himself well enough to fear both excess and desperation, these were not modest prayers. They were the most important ones he could pray.



The Prayer of Agur is a ten-day devotional guide designed for seasons of prayer and fasting. Each day moves through one thread of Agur's prayer — from his weariness in verse one to his consecration in verse nine — with an extended reflection, a personal application, a closing prayer, and a fasting note that connects the physical discipline of the fast to the spiritual theme of the day.



A seven-day reading plan is also included for those fasting across a single week.



This guide is not about spiritual performance. It is about the kind of honesty that makes genuine prayer possible — the honesty of a man who stripped his entire life's petition down to what he actually needed, and trusted God with the rest.

For personal devotion, small group fasting, or church-wide prayer initiative