O Lord, You are my God; I will exalt You and praise Your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done marvelous things, things planned long ago. I praise you, O Lord. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me. Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.” With joy, I will draw water from the wells of salvation. Today I will say: “Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted. Sing to the Lord, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world.” God, you asked Job, “Have you ever in your life commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place, so it may seize the edges of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?” Help me to learn to do this through You. [Isaiah 25:1; Isaiah 12:1-5; Job 38:12&13]
Holy Spirit You inspired Solomon to write in his book of wisdom, “A brother offended is harder to win than a strong city, and contentions are like the bars of a castle. A man’s stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth; From the produce of his lips, he shall be filled. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” [Proverbs 18:19-21] Help me to be wise in what I say or do not say, how I prepare my thoughts to communicate with those around me. Help me to learn to listen more than speaking and to choose my words with wisdom, mercy, and grace. Help me to avoid offending people by what I give as intention within my words. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer. [Psalm 19:14]
I thank my God always concerning the grace of God which was given to me by Christ Jesus, that I am enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge, even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in me, so that I come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will also confirm me to the end, that I may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom I am called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. [1Corinthians 1:4-9]