Morning Prayer
This verse is one that I pray through in the mornings before I start the day. I thought I would write it out for myself and for anyone that might want a prayer verse too.
“God, Please give me love. Before I knew you I could not love at all. It was a shallow, emotional wavering thing that could not stand. But now your love is shed abroad in my heart by your Holy Spirit. This is the love I need for a lost and dying world, for myself, for family, for co-workers, and church brothers and sisters (all those whom you would use to help me grow). Let me show more of your love to them all. I need the love, deep and abiding, that only your Spirit can give.
God, Please give me joy! Oh Heavenly Father how joyless my life was before you came into my heart. Yes there was laughter; I worked at it, it was the closest thing to joy I could find. And sometimes I was happy. But the happiness I had would crumble to the ground whenever circumstances did not support it. Often my laughter came at the expense of other's misery, tearing them down, how shallow is that? I need the joy, deep and abiding, that only your Spirit can give.
God, Please give me peace. Lord God I had no peace and I have no peace without you. The only peace I knew before was an intellectual one that depended on the promises I knew from your word or from human agencies designed to help me. But I did not own the peace. Now, Oh Father, with your seal in my heart please let me not forget your peace. The stuff that goes beyond any human understanding. I need the peace, deep and abiding, that only your Spirit can give.
God, Please give me patience. You know me Father, how brash and mean I can be. How immediately angry and frustrated I can be when things or people do not go my way. I took pride in not getting physical but I did worse, I would tear down with words and hammer folks into dust. The only real patience I have ever known and will ever know is the patience that your Holy Spirit has given to me. Oh do not stop, I pray, give me more of your patience, flood me with it and let it cover me like a tent! I need the patience that only your Spirit can give.
God, Please give me kindness. Oh Father you know how mean I can be. When someone does not return my greeting I turn on them. Because of my total lack of real kindness I require strict pay back. If social proprieties are not followed my kindness runs dry. If I am offended the well of kindness is already empty. Please touch me and give me this kindness of yours. I need the kindness that only your Spirit can give.
God, Please give me goodness. You see all of me and know how short I am on goodness and how really very little I understand it. Even a rattle snake shows enough goodness to rattle before it strikes yet I even lack that amount of goodness. Lord, I want the goodness from you. I want to be good to all those around me and even to your creation. I need the goodness that only your Spirit can give.
God, Please give me faithfulness. I stand before you with a history bathed in un-faithfulness. I am marked with the graffiti of un-faithfulness. I have been faithless to you; all the years I lived out my own goodness in the flesh, not really knowing you at all. I have been faithless in my relationships with family, friends and others. How could I have been faithful? I was so corrupt. Please don’t withhold your forgiveness for this sin! I need the faithfulness, deep and abiding, that only your Spirit can give.
God, Please give me gentleness. Oh the deep deep love of Jesus! So gentle. My shepherd. So gentle too me. Help me to have this same gentle spirit, trusting you for any vengeance or justice that I would so very likely mis-handle. Help me to give the mercy to others that you have given to me and to be gentle with all. I need the gentleness that only your Spirit can give.
God, Please give me self-control. Father this one is so easy for me to misunderstand and yet such a joy once I do. The term would seem to lend itself to being misunderstood, it seems that it would come from self, from me, but I have never been up to this task. Your word tells me that self-control is a gift. A gift! Then I can attain even this! My life had no self-control and now I find that you are giving it to me as a gift. What a wonderful God you are to me! I need the self-control that only your Spirit can give.
God, all I have is from you. Every breath I take is a gift, every person I come across a chance to shower with the gifts that you have given me. Thank you Father for the gift of your Spirit. Let me not grieve or quench His work in me. Make me to shine for you, bear me up on eagles wings and hold me in the palm of your hand. Let me speak of you, for you, to others as lost and helpless as I and give the HOPE of the Living God to them! Amen
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