Daily Prayer: Year 1, Day 87

From A Simple Book of Prayers

Speaking the Truth
(Renewal)

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.

Like Josiah, may I do what is right in the sight of the Lord, walking in the ways of David and not turning aside to the right or to the left. (2 Chronicles 34:1–2)

Like Josiah, give me a tender and responsive heart so that I will humble myself before You when I hear Your word. (2 Chronicles 34:27)

May I walk in the steps of Jesus, who often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. (Mark 1:35; Luke 5:16)

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.

I will put away perversity from my mouth and keep corrupt talk far from my lips. (Proverbs 4:24)

Each of us must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to their neighbor, for we are members of one another. (Ephesians 4:25)

Lord, I thank You for Your Son Jesus and for His earthly ministry. I thank You for being worthy of my complete trust, and I ask that my speech would not be corrupt but truthful.