Heavenly Father I appreciate and am very grateful for the relationships You place in my life. I am grateful for my family and friends. I praise You for also having a relationship with me.
Holy Spirit I ask that You put a hedge of protection around my family and keep them safe as they travel today and this weekend. Help us to enjoy some time in the UP and allow us to appreciate the beauty You created here. Renew our minds, help our souls to soak in Your Spirit, and give ourselves to You. Let us sing praises so that rocks, trees, and mountains do not replace us in singing Your praises. I have a grateful heart that You have given me the responsibility and purpose of being a husband, father, and grandfather. I am overwhelmed at times but Your Spirit has walked with me each step and supplied the wisdom that has been needed. Help me to keep my mind on You so that they learn to follow in that pathway.
Grace and peace will be multiplied to me through the knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord. His divine power has given to me all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of God who has called me to His own glory and excellence, by which He has given to me exceedingly great and precious promises so that through these things I might become a partaker of the divine nature and escape the corruption that is in the world through lust. For this reason, help me to make every effort to add virtue to my faith; and to my virtue, knowledge, and to my knowledge, self-control; and to my self-control, patient endurance; and to my patient endurance, godliness; and to my godliness, brotherly kindness; and to my brotherly kindness love. For if all of these reside in me and abound, they will ensure that I will neither be useless nor unfruitful in the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord. Help me to diligently make my calling and election sure so that when I add all these areas into my life I will not stumble and will be able to enter into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ which will be abundantly provided for me. In Jesus’ name, Amen. 2 Peter 1:3-11 MEV version