Heavenly Father, I give You praise and glory for today, and each day You allow me to continue to help build Your kingdom. I praise You for allowing me to be a husband, father, and grandfather. Help me to always honor You while fulfilling each of those roles. Help me today to take command of my day and shake the evil from it.
Holy Spirit, God told Jeremiah, and he wrote it down: You shall seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. Jesus told us, “Listen! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him and he with Me.” But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! So, in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. [Jeremiah 29:13, MEV, Revelations 3:20; Matthew 6:33; Matthew 7:7-12]
I pray and ask that I may be filled with the knowledge of Your will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that I may walk worthy of the You, fully pleasing, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of You; strengthened with all might, according to Your glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified me to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in the light. You have delivered me from the power of darkness and conveyed me into the kingdom of the Son of Your love, in whom I have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. You are the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by You all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether
thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through You for You. And You are before all things, and in You all things exist. And You are the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things You may have the preeminence. In Your blessed Son Jesus’ name, Amen. (Colossians 1:9-18)