One Prayer a Day

Forgive me, Lord Jesus, for doing the things that make me feel uncomfortable and guilty when I pray.

I say that I believe in you, yet I doubt your promises.

I say that in God I trust, yet I worry and try to manage my own affairs.

I say that I love you, O Lord, and yet I do not obey you.

I say that you have the answers to all my problems, and yet I am slow to consult you.

Forgive me, Lord, for my lack of faith and the willful pride that ignores the way, the truth, and the life.

Please reach down and change the gears within me that I may go forward with you, amen.

(a prayer of Peter Marshall, slightly revised; photo via pixabay.com)

Sands

“Lord, let me find my life in You, and not in the shifting sands of this world's favor or gain.”

(a prayer by Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

Only Wise God

I give praise to you, my Father, "the only wise God [my] Saviour" (Jude 1:25).

You are all wise,
only wise,
infinitely wise.

You are wise in creating,
wise in sustaining,
wise in inspiring,
wise in guiding,
wise in saving,
wise in correcting.

You are wise in all you think,
all you say,
and all you do.

You are wise,
only wise,
and all wise.

May all glory and majesty, dominion and power, be yours both now and ever, amen.