Heavenly Father, I praise You for all that You have done for me, my family, and my church and community. I praise You for my children, who are adults now and living adult lives. I praise You for my time with Philip before he went to see You. I praise You for my grandchildren and my extended family. I praise You for the friends You have helped place in my life and for being my support through good and bad times.
Holy Spirit Your word says: But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus so that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. [Ephesians 2:4-7] I will be the first to admit I can not understand fully or comprehend how, why, or when You show us grace how much and deep it is and how much of Your love shines through us. I can only bow on my knees and cry Holy, Holy is the lamb who was slain for my sins and is my eternal King. My salvation is anchored in this grace and mercy and I will never fully be able to know the fullness, thereof.
For this reason, I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen me with power through His Spirit in my inner being, so that Christ may dwell in my heart through faith. And I pray that I, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that I may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to Him who can do immeasurably more than all I ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within me, to Him be glory, Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:14-21