You have charged us
to keep your commandments carefully.
Oh, that my actions would consistently
reflect your decrees!—Psalm 119:4-5 (NLT)
Heavenly Father,
Help me to carefully keep Your commandments, so that all of my actions would consistently reflect Your decrees!
LORD, out of Your great love for me, You have charged me with this great and awesome responsibility—to keep Your commandments carefully.
In order to do this, I must take the time to discover and seek to understand Your commandments—by reading, studying and being taught the instructions that are found in Your Word.
This also means I must meditate on Your Word at all times—so the Truth of Your Word will permeate my thoughts and, in turn, will produce in me the godly actions that would bring You glory, honor, and praise.
I must totally surrender control over my heart to Your Spirit—so that You can empower me not to do those things I shouldn’t do, but also, to do those things that I should.
Because of Your great and unending love for me, You have given me Your commandments—so that, to the extent that I am faithful to follow them, I can walk in the freedom, peace, protection, provision, and joy that they provide.
Help me to carefully keep Your commandments, so that all of my actions would consistently reflect Your decrees!
In the name of Jesus, Amen.
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