Heavenly Father, I praise You for today and for giving me breath to enjoy today. I praise You for the time of fellowship at my church and our picnic. I praise You for putting me in a church where I can feel at home and in belonging. Help me today to take command of my day and shake the evil from it.
Your word says: He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will find mercy. When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. [Proverbs 28:13; 11:2; Matthew 5:7] Most of us at some time in our lives have needed mercy. God has demonstrated over and over that mercy comes to those who have shown mercy and those who are humble enough to honestly seek it. Help me to be and show mercy when I can, so when I need to receive it, I fall within God’s plans and desire for mercy to be shown to me. Grace and peace will be multiplied to me through the knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord. His divine power
has given to me all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of God who has called me to His own glory and excellence, by which He has given to me exceedingly great and precious promises, so that through these things I might become a partaker of the divine nature and escape the corruption that is in the world through lust. For this reason, help me to make every effort to add virtue to my faith; and to my virtue, knowledge, and to my knowledge, self-control; and to my self-control, patient endurance; and to my patient endurance, godliness; and to my godliness, brotherly kindness; and to my brotherly kindness, love. For if all of these reside in me and abound, they will ensure that I will neither be useless nor unfruitful in the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord. Help me to diligently make my calling and election sure so that when I add all these areas into my life, I will not stumble and will be able to enter into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, which will be abundantly provided for me. In Jesus’ name, Amen. 2 Peter 1:3-11 MEV version