Thoroughly Equipped

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

--2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV)

Creator God,

Thank You that just as You breathed life into man, so You breathed life into Your Holy Scriptures.

Thank You that Your Word is alive, given by Your inspiration, and available to me so that I might learn of the wonderful blessings of Your love.

Thank You that it helps me know what is true and shows me what is wrong in my life—but it doesn’t stop there.

Thank You that Your Word tells me how to do what is right, so that my thoughts and actions will be according to Your will and not my own—for my own benefit.

Thank You that because of Your Word—and through the power of Your Word—I can be thoroughly equipped and ready for every good work that You have planned for me.

Thank You that just as You breathed life into man, so You breathed life into Your Holy Scriptures.

In the name of Jesus, Amen.