Heavenly Father, I give You glory and praise for today, for life, for creation, and for loving us enough to have Jesus become the pathway of salvation through His death on the cross and our hope of eternal life upon His resurrection and ascension into heaven. Your word gives us hope that one day we will be with You. Help me take command of my morning and shake the evil from it this morning.
I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You. [Psalm 119:11, NIV] I seek to live righteously as much as possible. I depend deeply on Your Holy Spirit to guide me, prompt me, and lead me in this area. Since I am Your living temple and Your Spirit dwells there, help me to heed and hear Your Spirit so I may live blameless before men while I seek and do Your will daily and fulfill the purpose I was created for and embraced when I accepted salvation.
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 the 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)