Post by Nicole Schocke Howard on Aug 29, 2012 13:13:09 GMT -5
1. Lord, Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path (Psalm 119:105). Enable me to truly comprehend its deepest meaning. Give me greater understanding than I have ever had before, and reveal to me the hidden treasures buried there. I pray that I will have a heart that is teachable and open to what You want me to know. Change me as I read it. Help me to be diligent to put Your Word inside my soul faithfully every day. Show me where I'm wasting time that could be better spent reading Your Word. Give me the ability to memorize it. Etch it in my mind and heart so that it becomes a part of me.
He who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
James 1:25
2. Lord, teach me from Your Word so that I will know Your ways and walk in them. Help me to live in obedience to your commands. Thank You that my sin doesn't have to separate me from You because by repenting of it and confessing it to You. I can be cleansed of my sins and set free.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9
3. Lord, may Your Word remind me of who You are and how much You love me. May it bring the security of knowing my life is in Your hands and you will supply all my needs. Thank You, Lord, that when I look into Your Word I find You. Give me ears to recognize Your voice speaking to me every time I read it (Mark 4:23). When I hear Your voice and follow You, my life is full. When I get off the path You have for me, my life is empty. Guide, perfect, and fill me with Your Word this day.
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.
Psalm 1:1-3
4. Lord, I don't want to be just a hearer of Your Word. Show me how to be a doer of Your Word as well. Enable me to respond the way I should and obey You. Show me when I am not doing what it says. Help me to apply my heart to Your instruction and my ears to Your Words of knowledge (Proverbs 23:12). May Your Word correct my attitude and remind me of what my purpose is on earth. May it cleanse my heart and give me hope that I can rise above my limitations. It is food to my soul, and I can't live without it. Help me to know You better through Your Word.
Whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. by this we know that we are in Him.
1 John 2:5
5. Lord, I pray You would help me set my life in right order. I want to always put You first above all else in my life. Teach me how to love You with all my heart, mind, and soul. Show me when I am not doing that. Show me if I have lifted up my soul to an idol. My desire is to serve You and only You. Please help me live accordingly.
Obey those who rule over you, and be submissive, for they watch out for your souls, as those who must give account. Let them do so with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.
Hebrews 13:17
6. Lord, help me to be in the church You want me to be in, so that I can become a part of the work You are doing there. I pray that I will always belong to a church that worships Your way. One that teaches Your Word in a clear and balanced manner and understands the power of prayer.
God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.
1 Corinthians 12:18
7. Lord, help me to willingly submit myself to others where I need to do so. Show me clearly to whom I am to be submitted and how I am to do it. Give me discernment and wisdom about this. Show me any time I am not submitted to the right people in the right way. I know that if my life is not in proper order I will not receive the blessings You have for me. But I also know that if I seek You first, all that I need will be added to me (Matthew 6:33). I seek You first this day and ask that You would enable me to put my life in perfect order.
He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.
Matthew 10:39
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