Lord God, my Father,
Thank
you for your love. You are good and righteous, just and compassionate, holy and
perfect. You are worthy of all the praise the world can bring you, even if we
often ignore you or rebel against you. Thank you for being patient with us and
loving us despite ourselves, knowing how hopelessly lost in our sin and
selfishness that you would send your only Son to us, whom we killed, but by
whose death we are freed from the due consequence of eternal death.
Thank
you for my family, for my friends—among your richest gifts to me. Thank you
for making this beautiful world that brings me so much joy. Thank you for the
gift of good food and the ability to make it. Thank you for health and safety,
and please continue provide for me and to protect me from harm.
Forgive
me for my continued sinning against you. I should know what is your best for
me, but still don’t always do it. Help me to fight temptation and win, that I
may glorify you through obedience. Make my mind pure, my motivations blameless,
my actions virtuous. You have made known to us the path of life, and I want to
follow it to live life to the fullest. With your gentle discipline and your loving
hand and your Holy Spirit, guide me into what is best for me.
God,
you know I come to you now with particular weight for those who don’t believe
in you or think this world can somehow satisfy them. The pain in these souls
burdens my heart. I feel a cloud of melancholy for them. You know those whom I
have in mind. I have no power to change anyone, but you do. Please show
yourself to them, God. Heal them, Lord. Cure their hardship. Help them believe
in Jesus Christ as the only way you have provided to get back to you God—the
way we were created to be and for which our souls long.
Thank
you for the opportunities I have to share your Word with others; please
continue to use me for your purposes and to be an ambassador of reconciliation.
Help me bear the burdens of my soul. I long for the day you bring about your
kingdom and make all things new. Please send Jesus back quickly, because I feel
the pains and groans of this earth for restoration.
For
your glory and in the name of Jesus Christ I pray,
Amen.
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