~ Read Genesis 12-13 Text, Audio
Lord God,
Make
me a blessing to today. Help me to demonstrate your kindness and grace.
Give me a greater desire to serve. Fill me with your caring,
compassion, your mercy, and love. Help me to be helpful to anyone in
need, without the expectation of repayment. Make me a blessing today,
Lord God, and bless me as I serve you, just as you promised that you
would do.
I
don’t want to be famous. I don’t need to be rich. So long as I’m able
to do your will; I don’t even care if I’m powerful. Just make my life
fruitful and multiply my work for your glory. Help me to spread your
truth and demonstrate your grace wherever I go. Whether I’m at home,
school, work, or out in the community, make me a faithful witness to the
gospel.
Lord,
I will go wherever you call me, and do whatever you ask. Though I know
it won’t always make sense to me, or turn out the way I’d planned, I
will try to be faithful, and follow wherever you lead. I will try to
obey whatever you command; but I know I’ll need your help; for I just
can’t do it alone.
You
know I’m weak. I know it too. I see my faults and failures, my
selfishness and sin. I know they get in the way of my service to you,
and I repent of them all. I confess, I am an approval junkie. I want to
be liked by others. I want their approval, and not their disdain. Though
I know I shouldn’t feel that way. I know in my heart that it’s wrong. I
know your approval is all I need, but I’m weak, and I need your help to
resist the temptation to be a “people pleaser.”
Help
me to be a blessing to others, just as you are to me. Help me to be
faithful, and true, even amidst the constant pressure to temper your
gospel. Help me to accept when it offends my sensitivities, or
challenges my selfishness and sin. Help me to see how it confronts the
idols of my heart that tempt me to put other things before you in my
life.
Your
word challenges me when I fail to make you the first priority in my
life over all the other things that I love. It confronts me when I allow
others opinions to temper the truth of your word. It pushes me when I
let my own feelings, and emotions keep me from demonstrating your grace
to others because I’m not ready to forgive. Your word is offensive to my
selfishness and sin, and I can’t ignore that fact.
At
the same time, your word has the power to soothe and heal the wounds
that lie deep in my soul. It has the ultimate cure that I need: your
message of truth and grace. It shows me how much you care for me and how
you provide for my needs. It explains your great plan of redemption,
and tells me of your mighty power to save. It soothes the pain of sins
that were committed against me, and convicts my soul of the sins I’ve
committed against others. Your word is flawless, right, and true,
because you are faithful in all that you do. It tells me how you saved
me from sin because of your great love through Jesus Christ, through
whom I pray.
Amen