Heavenly Father I come before You and ask that through You I can learn to take command of my morning. Help me to learn to lean and trust in You daily. I praise You for being not only a creation of Yours but that You desire to have a relationship with me. I praise You for the salvation that came through Christ and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit who teaches me wisdom, discernment, and understanding each day as I stay faithful and trust in You to lead me.
My soul remembers and is humbled within me. But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: It is of Your mercies, Lord that I am not consumed; Your compassions do not fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. You, O Lord, are my portion, and I will put my hope in You. You are good to those who wait for You, like me who seek You always. It is good that I should wait quietly for salvation from You. [Lamentations 3:20-26] Holy Spirit You inspired Jeremiah to write: Let us search and try our ways, and return to the Lord! Let us lift our hearts and hands to God in heaven. [Lamentations 3:40&41] Help me to grasp the depth of wisdom that Jeremiah wrote for us to learn from. Help me to realize the faithfulness of God, to search and know the righteousness or lack of that is within me. Help me to be an open book and to grow out of the knowledge that nothing is hidden from You and that You created me with a purpose and know what is best for me. I need to drop my anchor in the wisdom that following You is the only way for me to gain all that I can out of living life, anything else will just short-change me and lead to my destruction.
Let me continually offer the sacrifice of praise to You, oh God, that is, the fruit of my lips, giving thanks to Your name. Help me to not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices You are well pleased. I will do my best to obey those who rule over me and be submissive for they watch out for my soul, and they will give account for how they lead. Let them do so with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for me. For I am confident that I have a good conscience, in all things desiring to live honorably. But I especially am urged to do this. Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make me complete in every good work to do His will, working in me what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen (Hebrews 13:14-21)