Today I pray 🙏

Father God, in heaven, today I pray You, LORD GOD,

 Incline my heart to your testimonies,and not to selfish gain!

Open my eyes to see wonderful things. Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.

Teach me your way, O Lord,that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.

 Satisfy me and satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Thank you Father God for loving us, your children, in the lovely name of our Lord Jesus Christ, so be it and amen.

Yes, Lord Jesus Christ, I have received you and I do receive you afresh right now this morning. I welcome you to take full control of my life. If I am estranging you in any way, pushing you away at all, show me and help me to kill that sin. I want to walk in you, in your power, in your way, in your fellowship. I dedicate myself to this right now again, just like I have so many times in the past. And I turn from all others, anything else that would compete with you as my closest friend and helper. You have given rootedness and foundation to my life. Thank you.

I didn’t create these roots in you or these great foundation stones of faith. You did that. Thank you. Thank you for sending teachers into my life. Thank you for my parents and many Christians and dozens of partners in ministry over the years that have exhorted me and kept me on the narrow way. Oh, how I thank you, Lord! It has all been owning to you. My reaching you and my walking in you and my rootedness and foundation in you, it is all owing to you. All my teachers were from you. You are kind and merciful, a mighty God. I love you this morning.

Lord Jesus, I am not even sure I know what “the elemental spirits of the world” are. But until I find out, I pray that you would protect me from them. Your work in me is way more important than my perfect understanding. Guard me. But I know something of the dangers of human tradition and philosophy. I have felt the pull of forces away from you. Oh, thank you that I am still here, right now praying and not over the cliff of unbelief. Oh, give me discernment so I can see what is according to Christ, like you said, in the books that I read, in the TV shows that I watch, in the movies and the news.

O LORD, these forces are so strong, and I am so prone to be entertained by ideas and actions that are not according to Christ. Have mercy upon me and give me the courage to say no to anything that tends to undermine my fellowship with you and my boldness in witness. How could I ever be lured away, Lord? 

For in you is the whole fullness of deity, apostle Paul says, the whole fullness of deity dwelling bodily. Amazing. Amazing. Absolutely amazing. O Christ, help me all day, every day, this very day to be more amazed at you and your fullness of deity that I will never turn away — more amazed than I am at anything else. Let my amazement at your fullness of deity spill over at work today. Make me a means of others being amazed, I pray, in Lord Jesus Christ’s powerful name. So be it , Amen.