All glory and honor is Yours, My Lord, for You have delivered me from the grip of sin and given me a path to eternal life and abundance. And when I was weak because of my flesh, You sent Your Son as a sin offering in my place. So now I have been empowered to walk after the Spirit rather than my flesh. Now that I am Yours, I am inclined to follow Your laws and thereby find peace and aid in my times of need. I know that if I follow the desires of my flesh it will be increasingly more difficult to maintain my relationship with You. Help me not forget that I am a new man who lives for You and gives no place to sin. I’ve been made new so I can live for You and a better life. I have surrendered myself to You so that You can lead me in paths of righteousness and truth. I am Your child and would have it no other way.
I give thanks to You, My Savior, for I am no longer in bondage to fear and doubt. By faith in You, I’ve been given new life … by faith in You, my problems have solutions … by faith in You, the mountains in my life can be cast into the sea of peace and hope … by faith in You, I am able to walk as a free man. In addition, I have a lifelong companion in the Holy Spirit. He walks with me daily … advises me so I can make good choices … consoles and encourages me in my darkest hours … and comforts me in my sadness and disappointments. I look forward to each day’s guidance which helps me walk uprightly and avoid the snares of my enemy. My hope is in You because as I look at my life through Your eyes, I can see that there is nothing that can stop me from being my best … except, of course, me. Keep me faithful to You through loving correction and discipline.
Help me in my times of weakness, for I get easily confused and do not know what to pray. Search my heart and expose my failures and encourage my well-doing. I know that as I pursue You with all my heart, I will find You and the answers that unlock the doors that hinder my walk. I want to be conformed into Your image so that I can be a source of goodness in a sad and decaying world. As I go through my life clinging to my belief in You, I trust that no weapon that is taken up against me will separate me from Your love. For if You did not spare Your own Son but delivered him up for me … how can You let me slip from Your loving hands? For in every tribulation or distress or persecution or hardship I endure, You will be there to rescue me and lift me out of the mire. This is why my love is unshakable and my heart is filled with joy. And it’s in Jesus’ name I pray. AMEN!!
Ephesians 3:17-19 I pray that you, rooted and established in love, may have the power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of the fullness of God.