For Encouragment
We have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of His will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding. Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better.
We also pray that you will be strengthened with all His glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy, always thanking the Father. He has enabled you to share in the inheritance that belongs to His people, who live in the light. For he has rescued us from the Kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of His dear Son, who purchased our freedom, and forgave our sins.
-(Colossians 1:9-14)
Motivation for Daily Life
Oh Lord, Creator of All Things, help me. For this day I go out into the world naked and alone, and without your hand to Guide me I will wander far from the path which leads to success and happiness.
I ask not for gold or garments or even opportunites equal to my ability: instead, guide me so that I may acquire ability equal to my opportunites.
You have taught the loin and the eagle how to hunt and prosper with teeth and claw. Teach me how to hunt with words and prosper with love so that I may be a lion among men and a eagle in the marketplace.
Help me to remain humble through obstacles and failures: yet hide not from mine eyes the prize that will come with victory.
Assign me the tasks to which others have failed: yet guide me to pluck the seeds of success from their failures. Confront me with fears that will temper my soul: yet endow me with courage to laugh at my misgivings.
Spare me sufficent days to reach my goals: yet help me to live this day as though it be my last.
Guide me in my words that they bear fruit: yet silence me from gossip that none may be maligned.
Discipline me in the habit of trying and trying again: yet show me the way to make use the law of averages. Favor me with alertness to recognize opportunity: yet endow me with patience which will concentrate my strength.
Bathe me in good habits that the bad ones may drown, yet grant me the compassion for weakness in others. Suffer me to know that all things shall pass: yet help me to know count my blessings of today.
Expose me to hate so it not be a stranger; yet fill my cup with love to turn strangers into friends.
But these things be only if thou will. I am a small and lonely grape clutching the vine, yet thou hast made me different from the others. Verily, there must be a special place for me. Guide me. Help me. Show me the way.
Let me become all you planned for me when my seed was planted and selected by you to sprout in the vineyard of the world.
Help this humble servant.
Guide me God.
In Jesus Christ of Nazareth's name, Amen.
To stop saying the wrong things
Lord, keep your arms wrapped around me
and your hands over my mouth. Amen.