Let us 🙏🏽 pray that you will grow in grace today.
Dear heavenly Father, I'm so ready to become a person known by your Holy Spirit.
I want to be a tree, like Psalm 1 explains, one that bears fruit in and out of season with leaves that never wither. It's hard to not get burnt out over it and exhausted.
But God, as long as l am planted next to your river of living water, I will flourish.
Help me to stay near you by laying down the other things vying for my attention.
Jesus Christ said that love is the greatest command. It's the beginning and the end.
I pray right now for a deeper revelation of how much you love me. You created me beautifully and wonderfully without flaw or error. After creating Adam and Eve, you stepped back and said, "That is very good.
God, help me to see myself through your eyes. The truth is that I am loved, accepted, and good enough.
All of my shortcomings were already paid for by the precious blood of Jesus.
So I can walk openly and boldly in this life. l am loved by the Creator of the universe. For it is from this place of knowing I am loved that I can love others in my own life.
May joy overflow from all I do. With my identity secure as your beloved,
I feel a deep and pure joy rising up from my insides. Father God, when I look at your creation, I can see you have a sense of joy.
Show me the little things you do every day to make me smile.
I want to shine my light brightly and cheerfully so that others are drawn to ask what makes me so happy and I can testify about you. Christ that living in me. Amen.
When others look at me, may they also see your peace that transcends understanding.
Help me to not escalate tense situations but to be a person of peace. Make me patient, Lord.
Whether I am waiting in line or waiting for a breakthrough, show me how to wait well.
You develop my character when I do not get my way immediately. Help me to put my trust in you, patient and enduring until the time is right.
Lord, make me kind.
When I'm hard and full of sarcastic remarks or judgment, I make it hard for others to see you in me. Soften my heart, Father God.
I want to mirror your goodness to the world around me. You are so kind. Help me today to be generous and fair to every person who crosses my path.
When it is within my means to give, may I do so. Help me to not withhold good from someone when I am able to bless them.
You are so faithful, Father God.
Help me to radiate that faithfulness in my own life.
I want my no to be no and my yes to be yes.
I want to be a trustworthy person who always does what I said I would.
It's hard, Father God, when I get distracted or forgetful.
From the first day of my life, you have been so faithful. You never leave my side. You never take your eyes off me.
I want to be faithful to you, too, Father God.
Forgive me when I get a little lost and lead me back to your everlasting love.
Above all, God, keep me gentle.
I don't want to hurt, offend, and run over others. I want to listen more than I speak.
The perfect example of this gentleness I find in none other than Jesus Christ himself, my Lord and Savior.
He did not come to be served but to serve.
Even though he was God incarnate, he humbled himself and went low.
Father God, my ego often gets in the way of being gentle and lowly of heart.
And Lord, teach me how to practice self-control.
Whether by fasting or abstinence or routine, I realize I need to teach my body and mind how to be controlled.
Father, please show me one practical way to grow in self-control. This week, make my life full of all these fruit of the spirit.
These are not things that I summon from within myself by trying or striving.
Sure, I have a role to play, but ultimately Father God, these fruits come from abiding in you.
Apart from you, I cannot do any of this.
Help me grow in your grace daily and become the person you made me to be. I want to bear much fruit so that my life will sing of your goodness.
In Lord Jesus Christ's name, I ask and received with thanksgiving to you, my Father God. I love you, I trust you.
Amen.
Respected visitor,
May you spend the rest of this day tucked in close to Jesus Christ's heart and leaning on Him all the way. Your life will overflow with the fruits of the Spirit when you keep abiding in Him and living His way.
Thank you so much for tuning in. If you are going through any difficulties these days, we would be truly humbled to pray for you. Please feel free to share in the comment section. God bless you and may His peace be with you. Amen, to our Father, be the honor and glory.
Psalm 1:
1 Blessed is the one
who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers,
2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
and who meditates on his law day and night.
3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither—
whatever they do prospers.
4 Not so the wicked!
They are like chaff
that the wind blows away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6 For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.
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