New Life With Christ

Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand.  Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth.  For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.

—Colossians 3:1-3 (NLT)

Heavenly Father,

Since I have decided to make Christ the Lord of my life and have chosen this new life with Him, help me to seek after eternal realities and find that my real life is hidden—concealed and kept safe—with Christ in You.

Help me to flee from earthly temptations and put to death my desires for the things of this world—things which lead me to be self-focused, materialistic, pleasure seeking and superficial.

Help me to search out Your eternal perspective, die to self, and allow the life of Christ to live in me and change me into the person I should be—one who truly loves You and loves others with the love of Christ.

Help me to fill my thoughts with Your thoughts—in order to see things as You do—so that my desires become those things that You desire and my thoughts, words, and actions become an outflow of my love for You.

Since I have decided to make Christ the Lord of my life and have chosen this new life with Him, help me to seek after eternal realities—and find that my real life is hidden—concealed and kept safe—with Christ in You.

In the name of Jesus, Amen.

Your Ways And Your Truth

Teach me your ways, O LORD,
    that I may live according to your truth!
Grant me purity of heart,
    so that I may honor you.

—Psalm 86:11 (NLT)

LORD my God,

Teach me Your ways, that I may live according to Your Truth—honoring You with a pure and undivided heart.

Help me to live my life in search of the Truth and not be satisfied to live according to anything less.

Grant me great discernment so that I never fall for the lies of the world in which I live—lies that are put forth as truth, but fall far short of conforming to fact or reality.

Help me never to believe the lies that the enemy speaks to me—lies put forth to tempt me to question what I know to be true—but hold up every idea that comes into my mind to see if it agrees with the Truth of Your Word.

And show me my own heart, so that any sin that I harbor there may not stand against the light of Truth—and so my heart may be united in Christ with Your own heart.

Then help me to guard my heart with Your Truth, that it may be pure and solely given to Truth—making me free to serve You with all that I am.

Teach me Your ways, that I may live according to Your Truth—honoring You with a pure and undivided heart.

In the name of Jesus, Amen.