Heavenly Father, I come before You today and am humbled by the grace, mercy, and forgiveness You have given me. I am in awe of how much You care and love me, no matter how far or ugly I have been. I am so thankful and unworthy of Your attention and confidence in me. I give You all glory.
Holy Spirit I am always thankful on Mondays for having had time in church. It is a place to be encouraged, given wisdom, and time to worship with family. I also know throughout history that churches did not always exist nor did synagogues or temples but people have always sought and found sanctuaries to worship You. Whether on Mountains, hills, closets, or balconies, we have all learned to find a place to take time to worship You. I remember as a teen sitting on a large rock under a tree hidden from the road and our house or sitting on the cement behind our barn to take time and talk to You. Now I often take time on long drives for work to spend time with You. My sanctuary is my heart. I, as a living temple, a living sacrifice, and one who tries to serve You daily, rejoice in the fact that we can worship in the spirit and no longer are we bound by sacrifices of animals to find redemption and forgiveness and that we can openly talk to You at all times.
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 of 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)