Heavenly Father, I humble myself before You and give You all glory and honor I can offer. I praise You for being my Creator, Savior, Father, Shepherd, and my guiding Spirit to live a life as close to what You intended for me to live. I seek to take command of my day and my thoughts so that I can shake all evil from them and find peace and joy.
Holy Spirit, I understand that I am a living temple for You to enter and use daily to expand Your kingdom and to be a refuge for those seeking to know about You. I also know that I need to work towards fitness in body, spirit, and soul. I need to hone my abilities and strengths to serve in all possible ways. I need to lead, especially in my family, with Your principles as my guide. Search me, know me, and guide me. Let my words, my thoughts, my desires, and my faith align with You and Your Spirit. Help me to see with Your eyes, love with Your heart, forgive with Your grace and mercy. Teach me to be silent, to listen, and to know Your voice within the depths of my being. Let me know and appreciate Your presence and to stand strong on my faith
and hope when I do not. Help me to always testify and witness to what You do in my life daily and have done for me in the past. Let me always acknowledge Your presence and how You have put Your fingerprints on my life. Let me never take credit for what You have done. Put a hedge of protection around my family and protect them from evil and harm. Most of all, help me to walk with integrity, speak only truth, live with humility and boldness, and be clear in my actions that I serve You above all.
Therefore, let me not sleep as others do. But let me be alert and sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night. But let me, who is of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation. For God has not appointed me to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for me, so that whether I am awake or asleep, I will live together with Him. So, I will comfort myself and edify my brothers and sisters. I will acknowledge those who labor around me, and/or are appointed over me in the Lord, and instruct me. I will
esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among the members of the body of Christ. I have been exhorted to warn those who are unruly, comfort the faint-hearted, support the weak, and be patient toward everyone. I will not render evil for evil to anyone. But always seek to do good to others. I will rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning me. I will not quench the Spirit. Nor will I despise prophecies. I will examine all things. Firmly hold onto what is good. Abstain from all appearances of evil. May the very God of peace sanctify me completely. And I pray to God that my whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. For I know that faithful is He who calls me, for He also will do it. Amen. 1 Thessalonians 5:6-24