Heavenly Father, I praise You for today and for loving me whether I am doing well or not. I praise You for helping my knee to continue to heal and for allowing me to make it back to work after only 4 weeks. I praise You for the opportunity to go to church on Sunday and join in worship and encouragement with others. I praise You for a church that thrives on following Your word. Help me today to take command of my morning and shake all evil from it.
Holy Spirit, I come before You and ask for Your inspiration to encourage my heart when I feel inadequate or insignificant. I have learned from your words many examples of men of faith feeling this way. Abraham was overwhelmed by how he would have children. Moses was able to lead and speak for and to the children of Israel. Gideon was chosen to defeat the Midianites. But the verse I hold onto the most is that I can do all things through Christ, which strengthens me. For nothing is impossible for God. I serve a God, who is the creator of the universe and me. I
may be insignificant, but the God I serve is beyond significant, and in Him I can have confidence and boldness.
Praise be to You, God, and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed me in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. You chose me before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in Your sight. In love, You predestined me to be adopted as Your son through Jesus, in accordance with His pleasure and will—to the praise of His glorious grace, which he has freely given me in the One He loves. In You, I have redemption through the blood of Christ, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of Your grace that You lavished on me with all wisdom and understanding. And You are making known to me the mystery of Your will according to Your good pleasure, which You purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment—to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ. In You I was also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of God who works out everything in conformity with
the purpose of His will, so that I, who has the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of His glory. And I also was included in Christ when I heard the word of truth, the gospel of my salvation. Having believed, I am marked in Him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing my inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory. Amen. Ephesians 1:3-14