Daily Prayer Day 17

I DRAW NEAR TO YOU, GOD

I praise You, Lord, that You are intimately acquainted with my ways and that You always love me and have my best interests at heart.

May I not trust in myself or in my own righteousness, nor view others with contempt.  (Luke 18:9) 

May I not be like the man who did not make God his strength but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself in his evil desires.  (Psalm 52:7)

Take a moment to offer this day to the Lord and ask Him for the grace to grow in your knowledge and love for Him.

THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE

All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flower of the field.  The grass withers and the flower fades, because the breath of the Lord blows on it.  Surely the people are grass.  The grass withers and the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.  (Isaiah 40:6-8)

Where is the wise man?  Where is the scholar?  Where is the disputer of this age?  Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?  But to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.  (1 Corinthians 1:20, 24)

I LISTEN TO YOUR WORDS OF TRUTH

I have set the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.  Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices; my body also will rest in hope.  You will make known to me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand are pleasures forever.  (Psalm 16:8-9, 11)

MY RESPONSE TO YOU, LORD

Lord, make me to know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life.  (Psalm 39:4)

I will not take revenge, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written: "Vengeance is Mine; I will repay," says the Lord.  I will not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.  (Romans 12:19, 21)


Lord, I thank You for Your eternal word and for the power and wisdom of Jesus Christ.  I thank You for the joy of Your presence, and I ask that I would grasp the brevity of life and desire to overcome evil with good.

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