Heavenly Father I praise You for all the seasons You created to give us life lessons. How we were nothing like the dead of winter, new life springs forth in the spring, we grow, we enjoy showers and sunshine and rainbows during summer, we get to feel our age and see the colors on trees and reap the harvest from spring in the fall, and then we reach winter again. I praise You for life and its fullness. Help me to take command of my day and shake all evil from it.
Holy Spirit I thank you for the ability to sing and play a harmonica. I thank You for allowing me to be part of the worship team and to participate each Sunday and the devotions and practice we have on Wednesday nights. I especially enjoy singing at Christmas time because we sing songs of hope and of birth and the beginning of Immanuel. Thank You for teaching me that worship is far more than singing but when we start the service we bring people into focus and start them rejoicing to You which then leads to the message that will feed all of us and help us to endure the week. I thank You for the fellowship of others I serve within the church and all of my church family. I praise You for the men and women in my life who keep me accountable, sharpen my wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, and help me to learn to be more discerning. I am so thankful for all the people who join me in prayer each day and how as a united body we can shake our world even if it is for just a second.
I will make a joyful noise unto the Lord, with all the earth! I will serve the Lord with gladness; I will come before His presence with singing. I want to know that the Lord, He is God; it is He who made me, and not others; I am one within the whole family or body of believers who are His children, and the sheep of His pasture. I will attempt to daily enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise; I am thankful to Him, and bless His name. For the Lord is good; His mercy endures forever, and His faithfulness to all generations. He shall regard the prayer of the destitute, and shall not despise their prayers. Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits; who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases. May Christ reign in my heart and others, Amen. [Psalms 100; Psalms 102:17; Psalms 103:1-3]