Dear God,
Creator and Overseer of all in righteousness, I joyfully and thankfully acknowledge Your action and influence in my life. You have blessed me with Your direction and merciful care; and I do not complain. Proverbs 3:6 “In all Your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your path.”
Whether we are young in age, young in the ways of the Lord, or after long years of church going, have only just been ignited to seek God more fully, or have a long established relationship with You our God,; all of us need to each day commit our lives and doings to You, and refresh ourselves in You, by prayer and reading of Your Holy words of life. You God tell us we need Your wisdom, and to learn of Jesus Your Son.
You give us council and direction, and we need it all for an illuminated pathway. Psalm 111:10 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom…..” Psalm 119:130 “The entrance of Your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.”
O God please give us more appreciation and awe for the privilege that may be ours, to receive, and follow the directions of Your unerring wisdom. For we do not contend just with our own human weaknesses and ineptitude, but with Satan and his army of demons; we can as Your humble, devoted follower of Jesus Christ we are assured that we will be delivered from them and our besetting sins. Revelation 12:12 “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.”
By my own too frequent experience I know I cannot trust myself to walk as an overcomer, and will only do so by acknowledging my weakness, and remembering Jesus said, John 15:5, 7 “…for without Me you can do nothing.” Followed up with His promise “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for You.”
To form the closest possible union with Jesus should be our earthly occupation and this can be so, when we obey You, and are granted the high privilege of becoming the sons and daughters of the King of the whole universe. It is through Jesus who was crucified and arose, that we all will be filled with the fruits of righteousness and be prepared to walk in the courts of the King of kings, on and on through unending ages.
Thank You my God and deliverer, I give You my praise.