Romans 8:14 “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.”
Dear God,
Thank You for my life and another new day; in the physical and spiritual sense. I appreciate my family and friends and feel very blessed by all the talks and interactions I have with them all. I often wish I was closer to many of them, even though I live in a very pleasant place. I pray that each of us will remember by whom we are made and have our being, and that each of us will ask for and follow Your will. I pray that we all will look to You afresh today, especially if belief in You has lapsed for any of us, and that in each of our lives, and as promised, You will be our Rock and Wisdom. Also for those who count themselves believers, but don’t actually seek Your will in prayer or follow Your way as they once did. Psalm 116: 1, 2 “I love the Lord, because He has heard my voice and my supplications. Because He has inclined His ear to me, therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live.”
You have made each of us, with a need to be close to You in love and we are not really happy apart from You, and today I am thankful again for the release from my burden of sin, and the gift of the Holy Spirit, as written in, Romans 8: 1 “There is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.” It is my joy and desire to have the Spirit within me, influencing all that I do, for I am of the ‘flesh’ and carnally minded and naturally do the things that lead to eternal death, but instead I have, V 9 “But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ he is not His.”
Thank You for the wonderful council and assurance that is found in the entire writings of Paul, and I have renewed my commitment and given You my heart.
Amen