The Daily Prayer

Finally typed up my own “Daily Prayer.”  I dedicate this one to my big Brother on his birthday.  Thank you Neil Anderson, John Eldrege and Sons, for motivating me to write out a "daily prayer."  

Father God thank you for giving me another day of life.  

Thank you for every step I take and the breath of life that fills my lungs.

Thank you for the beauty of the rising sun.  From its rising to its setting, I will praise your name!

Jesus, I adore you.  Your name is higher than the rising sun!  

Thank you for giving me the example of pleasing the Father!

Holy Spirit, you are my teacher and you are in control.  

I have worshipped CONTROL.  Thank you for your forgiveness.

Thank you that I am forever SET FREE from the worship of 

CONTROL, COMFORT, APPROVAL, AND POWER.

Today I choose only to listen to you.

I choose to look to Jesus, the author, and perfecter of my faith.

I have been crucified with Christ and that it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me.

I have been buried with Christ by baptism into death (Romans 6:4; Col 3:1).

I have been raised with Christ through faith by your powerful Spirit.

The same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead lives in me!

I have been raised to the newness of life with Christ and I set my sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand (Col 3:1).

Thank you that you have raised me up with Christ and have been seated with him in that heavenly realm!

Father, today, I choose to allow my hands to be conduits of grace, mercy, and peace.

May the gentle touch of my hands and the tenderness of my words point my wife and children to a gracious and kind God.

Father thank you that I am not my own and that I no longer have to identify myself as broken, but all put together.

Thank you that you alone supply all my needs and that I lack nothing.

Thank you that today, I no longer have to sin, because I consider myself dead to sin and alive in Christ.

I rejoice in the truth that I am not hurt because you are not hurt and you live in me.

I rejoice in the truth that I am not broken because you are not broken and you live in me.

I rejoice in the truth that I no longer have to be frustrated, angry, disappointed, or impatient because you are perfect in every way and you live in me.