Heavenly Father, I praise You for how You have blessed the generations of my family. From my Godly grandparents to my parents, uncle, aunts, and many cousins, to my son doing ministry. I pray that the next generation can learn about and know you as well. Help me today to take command of my day and shake the evil from it.
Holy Spirit, help me to not only listen and grow in wisdom but to use that understanding so that I am not trying to take control of my life but letting it be led by You. Help me to learn to instill Your principles, Your word, Your Spirit into who I am and how I am wired. Let my thoughts be held captive until they are honoring and fulfilling Your will. Let my desires align with Your desires for me, and the rest fade away. Help my spirit and my soul learn to rejoice and be filled with Your presence and leadership within who I am. Help me to work on the things I can, and trust You to change or fix what is beyond my grasp.
Holy Spirit, You inspired Paul to write: Since I am raised with Christ, I will learn to desire those things that are above,
where Christ sits at the right hand of God. Help me to set my affection on things above, not be consumed or love for things on the earth. For I am dead, and my life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is my life, shall appear, then I also shall appear with Him in glory. Teach me to put to death the parts of my earthly nature: sexual immorality, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Because I am learning these things, the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience. I used to live that life with them. I must now put away all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, and filthy language out of my mouth. I can no longer lie to others, for that was part of my old nature or way, because I am embracing the new nature to emulate Christ, who has and is becoming my all in all. Thank you for being my guide and prompter as I grow in Christ. In Jesus’ name, Amen. [Colossians 3:1-11, MEV and paraphrased by me]