Heavenly Father I praise You for the beautiful day. I praise You for the opportunity to plant a garden yesterday with the hope for good vegetables to come. I praise You for each season we have and for each season we go through so that we can grow to serve You better each day. I praise You for being uniquely made with my own abilities, talents and gifts specifically designed by You for me to use in honoring and serving You. Help me to mesh with other believers who have different skills, abilities, talents and gifts so that together we can build Your kingdom and teach salvation, grace and mercy of Christ.
Holy Spirit help me to lift up my brothers and sisters in China, Japan, Korea, Africa, Australia, South America, Cuba, Mexico, Honduras, Haiti, and all other countries and continents where there is believers serving You. Help me to raise up my hands and pray for them to be strong and mighty in Your Spirit. Help me to pray for their wellbeing and for their needs. Help me to serve You with praying, studying Your word, telling others about You and living my life as it belongs to You.
Holy Spirit help me to not fret or worry. Instead of worrying, teach me to continually pray. Let petitions and praises shape my worries into prayer, letting God know my concerns. Before I know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle down my spirit. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of my life. [Philippians 4:6&7 (the Message)] Philippians 4:11-13—Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:19—My God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, let us clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. We must learn to bear with each other and forgive one another if any of us has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Let the peace of Christ rule in our hearts, since as members of one body we are called to peace. And be thankful. Let the message of Christ dwell among us richly as we teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in our hearts. And whatever I do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. [Colossians 3:13-17] In Jesus Christ’s name, Amen.