Heavenly Father, I praise You for being the living water to our souls when we are walking through the desert in life. I praise You for giving us wisdom through Your Holy Spirit so that we can make wise decisions and lean on Your direction in how to live each moment of our lives. I praise You for allowing us the opportunity to pray and talk to You, and that You listen to each of us.
I am a blessed man because I trust in You, for You are my hope. I have slowly learned to be like a tree planted by the waters, spreading out my roots and foundation, tapped into Your living water through the Holy Spirit. I will not fear when the heat of life comes upon me; I will continue to draw strength and nourishment from Your light and salvation so that I produce life. I will learn to be steady and strong like the tree and not be anxious by drought, storms, winds that push at me and try to destroy me. I will continue to be producing the spiritual fruit You are trying to grow within me. [Paraphrased from Jeremiah 17:7&8] I continue to try to live as a living sacrifice for You daily, and I continue to renew my mind and spirit with Your word, with testimonies, music, and with open eyes seeing You operate in my world. [Romans 12:1&2]
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 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)