As For Me

As for me, I look to the LORD for help.
    I wait confidently for God to save me,
    and my God will certainly hear me.

—Micah 7:7 (NLT)

God of My Salvation,

Help me to remember that You are my source of help—that all my help surely comes from You!

Help me to look to You and wait—in quietness of spirit and in confidence of heart—for You to save me from whatever circumstance or situation in which I find myself.

And help me to see Your hand at work on my behalf, through every place and person that I come upon along the path that You lead me down—as You teach me more about Your ways and show me Your plan and purpose for me.

Let me freely cry out to You—knowing that You will always hear me—because You know my thoughts, even before I put them into words and are ever eager to answer the cries of my heart.

Help me to remember that You are my source of help—that all my help surely comes from You!

In the name of Jesus, Amen.

How Far True Love Will Go

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.  For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

—John 3:16-17 (NKJV)

Heavenly Father,

Thank You,

…for Your amazing love for us—a love which is ever reaching out to us to draw us into relationship with You.

…for the amazing love that You freely gave in the form of Your only begotten Son—who You willingly sacrificed, so we could know just how far true love will go.

…for the freedom You bought for us and the path to joy and peace that You laid out before us—when Christ laid down His life for us.

…and for not sending You Son to condemn us to die as we deserved—but to offer us life everlasting with You.

Thank You,

In the name of Jesus, Amen.

That Which Will Define My Future

“Forget the former things;
    do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing!
    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
    and streams in the wasteland.”

—Isaiah 43:18-19 (NIV)

Almighty God,

Help me not to dwell so much on the past—even on those great and wondrous miracles that have marked my life thus far—that I end up missing out on the new things—those even far greater things—which will define my future with You.

Teach me to see—to stop, and look, and perceive Your will for me—as You work in me, through me and all around me, in new and fresh ways to bring glory to Yourself!

Make me open to receive all that this ever-changing gift of life You have given me has to offer—as You unfold before me the newness of the perfect path that You have for me to walk.

Grant me the faith to believe that You are able—and You certainly will—make a road for me in the wilderness and cause life-giving rivers to flow in any desert that lies before me, both now and forevermore.

Help me not to dwell so much on the past—even on those great and wondrous miracles that have marked my life thus far—that I end up missing out on the new things—those even far greater things—which will define my future with You.

In the name of Jesus, Amen.