There are six things the LORD hates—
no, seven things he detests:
haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that kill the innocent,
a heart that plots evil,
feet that race to do wrong,
a false witness who pours out lies,
a person who sows discord in a family.—Proverbs 6:16-19 (NLT)
LORD of my Heart,
Help me surrender all my heart and life to You—so You would have no reason to detest the things that You find in me.
Remove any haughtiness or conceitedness from within me—especially when my eyes show contempt for others. Keep me from sinning by thinking more highly of myself than I ought to, while undervaluing others.
Check me by Your Spirit should any lie be formed in my heart—before it spills across my tongue—that my words would always reflect that I hold Truth as sacred in my life.
Purge from me any desire for the shedding of innocent blood—for cruelty or bloodthirstiness. Help me to have precious reverence for the sanctity of life.
Expose any tendency to devise wickedness in my heart or to entertain or rehearse evil plans in my mind—that I might chose to meditate only on what is good and right.
Make my feet quick to run to do what is good, so that my feet will be kept from that which is evil.
Let me only speak the truth about others—and let those words be pleasing to You—so that I cannot be used as a tool of the enemy for his purposes.
And stop me from sowing any seeds of discord among my family—whether my natural family or my brothers and sisters in Christ—that unity would be preserved.
Help me surrender all my heart and life to You—so You would have no reason to detest the things that You find in me.
In the name of Jesus, Amen.
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