Heavenly Father, I praise You for today. I praise You for constantly teaching me and stretching me. I praise You for not expecting me to be perfect but to strive for perfection. Help me today to take command of my day and shake the evil from it.
Holy Spirit, You inspired Solomon to write: “The wise in heart will receive commandments, but a prating fool will fall. He who walks uprightly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be known. He who winks with the eye causes sorrow, but a prating fool will fall. The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.” [Proverbs 10:8-11] Help me to be a person who walks uprightly, is careful what I look at and what I say. Let my integrity be known to all, and that I learn and behave with a humble but bold heart. Help me to seek peace before conflict, and to attempt to live peaceably with others as best as I can.
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)