Heavenly Father, I praise You for today and for how You have a plan for each of us here. I praise You for creating me with a purpose and for instilling in me hope when I accepted salvation so that my faith could start to grow. I give You praise and glory for trusting me with such responsibility as to fulfill Your purpose and to help build Your kingdom with the knowledge You don’t have to. Help me today to take command of my day and shake the evil from it so I can walk in righteousness.
Holy Spirit, Your word says: A man’s heart devises his way, but the Lord directs his steps. For I know the plans that I have for you, says the Lord, plans for peace and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. [Proverbs 16:9, MEV; Jeremiah 29:11, MEV] As I learn to truly live what Paul wrote in Romans 12 about being a living sacrifice, so that I can know God’s will and continue to renew my mind, so that wisdom, knowledge, and understanding become solid in my thinking. I will put that wisdom to practice in how I live so that I can allow Your Spirit to guide my footsteps and help me navigate the path I am to walk to fulfill God’s will. Help me to continue to grow in my listening to You when You prompt me along the way.
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)