Heavenly Father, I praise You for creating me with a purpose and with the idea that I would truly live fully while here on the earth under Your will and guidance. I praise You for how You created me and the tools You gave me, specifically to navigate this world. I praise You that I do not have to know how to do all things in life, for we are to work with others with other talents to make a community. Help me today to take command of my day and shake the evil from it, and provide protection for my family. Help me to lift them in prayer for their salvation constantly.
Your word says: work out your salvation with fear and trembling. For God is the One working in you, both to will and to do His good pleasure. Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe. God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we
walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. [Philippians 2:12-15; 1 John 1:5b-7] I understand that my salvation is a process of maturity. The deeper I grow to understand the gift God has given me through salvation, the more I grow in my relationship with Him through the Holy Spirit who lives within me. I have to daily focus on receiving and acknowledging the wisdom, knowledge, and discernment that is bestowed on me so that, through understanding, I can do the will of God in my life. I know there are simple principles to God’s will, but with the talents and ministry God uniquely created within me is the complexity of fulfilling His will in my life within my family and community is. Help me to grow in my relationship and faith so that I can fully grasp and fulfill the purpose that I was made for.
Holy Spirit, for 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
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]