Heavenly Father, I praise You for the opportunity to go to Kentucky with my wife and mom to celebrate a wedding. I praise You for bringing together some family members I haven't seen in over 15 years. I praise You for the safe travels and good weather we experienced during our trip. Help me today to take command of my morning and shake all the evil from it.
Holy Spirit, today I will need extra grace and mercy as I will have to face and do some things that have to be taken care of, but are not of my normal doing. I ask for wisdom, knowledge, understanding, and most of all to be discerning. Help me to give guidance to some people today that is wholesome and necessary. Let me be the leader that you created me to be. Help me to be just and to be the person You purposed me to be. Guide my words and my intentions to be honorable and sincere.
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)