Heavenly Father, I give You praise for today and for teaching me lessons through the testimonies from Your word. I praise You for helping me to learn discernment and understanding as I read Your word. I praise You for giving me the skills to learn, understand, and use what I learn to apply to my life and to those I help in their journey.
Holy Spirit, I want to be obedient to You when You tell me to go talk to someone, as You did when You told Philip to go and talk to the Ethiopian Eunuch of great authority. I want to be ready to listen, learn, and tell or explain Your word or salvation to help the person become one of Your children. Help me to be aware, receptive, and obedient to Your promptings so that I can build the Kingdom of God. Help me to be a faithful disciple and remain open to Your Spirit, as Philip was.
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)