O Lord God Almighty, creator of heaven
and earth and all that is within, blessed be your holy name, now and forever.
The heavens declare your praise with its vastness and mystery. The whole earth
reflects your majesty and splendor with power, with life, with beauty, and
grandeur. All of creation calls me to worship you and you alone, who made it
all and keeps it all even though the curse of sin upon it. Still you keep your
creation in order and use it to point people to you carrying out your purpose for
it from the beginning.
And you created me, O Lord, and I
worship you, the one who began my life. And you have kept me, and watched over
me, guarded me, and guided me even though I rebelled, like Adam and Eve, and
was bent against you. Still you kept me and did not cast me away. Thank you,
God, my Father.
You kept me alive and sent the Holy
Spirit who revealed the emptiness of being lost and showed me Christ Jesus on
the cross dying for me, in my place. You gave me faith as a gift to believe in
Christ, and that his life, raised up on the third day, was mine. Thank you,
God. And you have kept me, guarded me, and guided me in Christ and always will.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
Through times of plenty and through times of
poverty, you have always been with me and have kept me from being lost. Even
when I wandered so far away from you, you were there with me, refusing to give
me over to my rebellion, selfishness, lust, and greed.
Forgive me, Lord, for those times, when
I was not myself but was denying my true identity in you. Teach me, Lord, to
recognize those temptations and to trust and follow you away from them. Lead me
not into it; lead me out of it. I pray. Give me confidence in who you are in
me; your strength, your power, your joy, your purpose for keeping me.
Hallelujah.
Today, Lord, I pray against the things
in our world that are destroying life; I pray against abortion,
sex-trafficking, and terrorism, and all of the horror it breeds. Bring down
these strongholds of death by the spread of the word of Life, the gospel, and
may it go forth throughout the whole earth.
I also pray for….in the name of Jesus,
I pray. AMEN.
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