James 2:26 “For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.”
Dear God,
I am grateful for this new day and for Your care of me, for without Your love of me and Your promises fulfilled in my life, I could not go on with hope and acceptance. My praises and thanks ascend to heaven afar.
I have in the past and sometimes now, in some situations or sickness been centred on myself way more than is good for me. Yet like an animal trapped, I have prayed and claimed Your promises for peace and have rejoiced in promised salvation. You in turn have given me the answer of peace which has filled me with gratitude; then my mind takes up the theme of what if this happens and disquiet comes again. I then claim Your promises all over again and You again bring me back with Your gift of calm assurances. Thank You for never giving up on me, even though I am so lacking in true faith and joy. I rejoice that my belief gets me through all situations and I with You within me, I will overcome all my sins and wrong thinking. James 2: 17 “Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.”
Forgive me Lord, that I have or do not always reveal my faith by my works or applying to my life all that You have promised and thereby joyfully able to proceed in a way that reveals that I truly believe Your words,
My refuge is always to remember and cling to the promises in Your word, and the knowledge that it is only You that can help me, knowing that You are more than willing to do so; and in time I will and have on many previous occasions overcome any self-turmoil, regrets or inner distress to Your place of inner acceptance and peace.
I praise Your wonderful name and character, that I have indeed been led small step by small step at a time, to better love and claim the risen life and grace of Jesus to make progress in giving issues, concerns and sickness, and wrong thinking to Jesus to sort out, for it is His power and strength over His vanquished foe, which assures my victory over the sophistication’s of Satan. I just have to pray, recognize and give my issues to Jesus. I wonder why I and many others do not give all over to Jesus, for a sure victory. I rejoice that of recent times I have allowed You my Lord to work more successfully in my life, until this present day.
I lay all of my self and need at Your feet today and know that ‘my strength cometh from the Lord’.
Amen