Heavenly Father, I praise You today for the opportunity to enjoy birthdays, church, and even a family reunion. I praise You for helping me with my work and showing me how to find errors so that our reports can be accurate. I praise You for my wife, children, and grandchildren. Help me to take command of my day and shake any evil from it.
Holy Spirit, You inspired Solomon to write: Commit your works to the Lord, and your thoughts will be established. [Proverbs 16:3 MEV] Help me to constantly commit my work both at my job and all that I do outside of work to be not only to honor You but to demonstrate Your working in me as a person, as a leader, a husband, father, and grandfather. I need so desperately at times to stay focused, clear-minded, and alert to all the enemy tries to defeat or attack me with, so that I can continue to live with Your Spirit within me and to learn to live righteously. Help me to renew my mind daily, take captive all my thoughts, watch the words I say, and the attitude I say them in, and most assuredly how I act and live my life for all to see You through me.
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)