Heavenly Father, I offer You praise even when my heart does not always resonate with that feeling. For You are worthy of praise no matter what my feelings are. I praise You for the truth that this is not all there is. My hope rests in You and in seeing Heaven someday.
Holy Spirit You inspired James to write that if we seek wisdom to ask, I am asking for wisdom right now on how to navigate all that I do at work and all the stress I am facing. I need to have wisdom and discernment on how to lead my employees through this difficult time and how to be the father and grandfather I need to be right now. I need understanding so that I can fulfill the purpose [calling] You have instilled in me to accomplish. I seek to find my joy, stand on my faith and hope, and become strong once more.
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)