Father God, forgive us for all the times we turn our backs on You and Your calling on our life. Help us to realize that You want to bless us so that we can be blessings to others in Your name. May we want to join ourselves to Your family and Your purposes instead of trying to do the opposite. (more…)
Father God, we come before You today and ask for Your forgiveness. We confess that all our attempts to be united with each other have had the common goal of exalting our own name rather than exalting Your name. Help us to see that there is no such thing as neutral ground. Either we remain in You or are separated from You, either we are for You or against You, either we follow You or depart from You. (more…)
Lord God, we thank You that all of scripture is inspired or literally God-breathed. We thank You for pointing us to the Gospel message even in seemingly uninteresting and uninspiring lists of names. We confess our ignorance before Your matchless wisdom and we acknowledge that the names on these lists were neither uninteresting nor uninspiring to their original hearers and readers. (more…)
Father God, I pray that in all our seeking, we would most earnestly seek Your will in choosing our spouses. Protect us from being taken forcefully by anyone against our will and Yours. May the men and women who inhabit, surround, and govern our lives be people who are renowned for doing good and not evil. (more…)
Father God, we thank You for reminding us again that You created us, both male and female, in Your image and blessed us. You have been setting apart a people who would live according to Your ways since the beginning of time. Your redemptive story was written out in the names of these people so that Your plan and Your purpose to rescue us would be fulfilled in the fullness of time. Remind us that Your eternal plans prevail, even when we fail. (more…)