It’s been 15 years since I began posting my Morning Prayers, and sharing my thoughts. My hope is that if there is one person who reads my post and is encouraged and I can make a difference in his or her day, my hope, my goal, is accomplished. I pray you read this first post and God’s blessing go with you in your day. Blessings! 🕊️

My prayer for the day
Thank you Lord for another day to be a friend, a brother, a son, a husband, a father, & grandfather.
Keep us safe Lord as we travel this day.
Bless me with the eyes to see the needs around me and to hear your voice leading me.
Thank you for my Sweet Bride and our baby yet to come.
Thank you Lord for my job and the ability to pay my bills.
Thank you for the opportunities around me to educate myself and grow in knowledge.
Help me to use what I learn to help my family, my friends and all those I meet.
Lord, guide me with your Spirit, let your light in me lead those in darkness, to a way out of confusion.
Increase my faith Lord and please forgive me when I doubt.
Let my heart and conscience bear witness of my desire, to bring honor and glory to your name….in all that I do and say…..in all I do and say…..to bring honor and glory to your name.

Help these words to echo in my mind, in my spirit, and as I breathe the air you give.
Help me to walk with your full armor encompassed around me, my family and all those in my life.
I pray for mercy and comfort for all those who are hurting this day, the hungry, sick, the lonely, those who are in prison, those who are dying and those who are afraid.
Thank you Jesus, for my life! Amen.

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🕊️ Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. 

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. 

After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time. 🕊️

1 Corinthians  15:1-2

🕊️ For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 

that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; 

giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. 

He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 

For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. 

All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. 🕊️

Colossians 1:9-18

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for Your Word!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

All that I am and possess, they are blessings from You O lord.

I pray this day You fill me with Your Holy Spirit, may I walk as Your child of the light and may that light shine bright, in all I say and do, in Jesus’ name, Amen! 

🕊️ Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 🕊️

1 Corinthians 13:4-13

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

Bless me this day Lord, fill me with Your Spirit.

May I shine Your light in the darkness around me this day, in all I say and do, in Jesus’ name, Amen! 

🕊️ My son, do not forget my law,

But let your heart keep my commands;

For length of days and long life and peace they will add to you.

Let not mercy and truth forsake you;

Bind them around your neck,

Write them on the tablet of your heart,

And so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and man.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart,

And lean not on your own understanding;

In all your ways acknowledge Him,

And He shall direct your paths.  🕊️

Proverbs 3:1-6

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

Every day Lord, I rise up and I see You first, before anything else. My heart is full of Your love and causes me to look for any opportunity to share my faith and shine the light of Your Spirit in and through all I say and do, in Jesus’ Amen!

🕊️ In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: 

Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. 

For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. 

And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous.

Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you. 

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. 

He who does not love his brother abides in death. 

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 🕊️

1 John 3:10-15

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

All that I am and possess, is because of Your love for me Lord.

Thank You!

Bless me this day I pray O Lord.

Fill me with Your Holy Spirit.

May I join the ranks of Your children of the light this day.

May I shine Your light bright, this day, in all I say and do, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

🕊️ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 

Above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. 

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. 🕊️

Ephesians 6:10-20

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

The above scripture is one of my favorite references in the Word of God.

It has been a focus point and centers me in all I say and do.

Lord, I pray without ceasing in my spirit, may you fill me with Your Spirit this day, give me the strength I need to face the day and each challenge before me. 

Protect my family O Lord, may Your Spirit rest upon each of them with power and provide them the tools they need to battle the challenges before them.

May I shine your light in and through all I say and do, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

Praise Yahweh!

🕊️ You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.

Trust in the LORD forever, for in YAH, the LORD, is everlasting strength.

For He brings down those who dwell on high, the lofty city; He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He brings it down to the dust.

The foot shall tread it down—

The feet of the poor and the steps of the needy.

The way of the just is uprightness;

O Most Upright, You weigh the path of the just.

Yes, in the way of Your judgments, O LORD, we have waited for You;

The desire of our soul is for Your name and for the remembrance of You.

With my soul I have desired You in the night, Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early;

For when Your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. 🕊️

Isaiah 26:3-9

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

I will magnify Your Holy name YAH!

My spirit is one with Your Holy Spirit 🕊️

I pray Your Spirit fill me, dwell within my soul as one 🕊️

Grant me O Lord, Your Way, as my forever journey, my path to follow.

Bless my children Father! 

Bless my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.

May they all know You YAH, may they learn of Your greatness! 

May they learn of Your grace, mercy, and Your great Love for all men. 

May you pour Your Spirit upon them, may each of them have a special gift, and may their feet follow the Way. 

May Your light shine bright this day O Lord, in all we say and do, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

Hallelu-Yah!

🕊️ Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. 

The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.

I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. 

Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. 🕊️

Philippians 4:8-9, 12

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

All that I am and all I possess are because of Your blessings in my life.

Thank You Father!

I pray for Your continued blessing this day, may You fill me with Your Spirit and may my mind, heart and soul be of one accord, may I bring glory to Your Holy name, and shine Your light, in all I say and do this day, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

Hallelujah! Praise Yahweh! 

🕊️ Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their own craftiness”; and again, “The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.” Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours: whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come—all are yours. And you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s. 🕊️

1 Corinthians 3:18-22

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

Letting go and allowing Your Holy Spirit to do the work, this has been a difficult journey for me Lord!

I grew up in rebellion, I rebelled against my father, my mother and my own siblings.

I did everything my way, avoiding the traditions of man, if for any other reason, to insulate me from the deep pain I felt inside, and then just to spite my father and cause him shame. 

What I didn’t realize, was that there has always been a presence within me I felt but I didn’t  know or understand its power or how to use it. I didn’t know this force with which could save me from those who sought to harm me. I have always thought of myself as lucky, because of all the self-destructive things I have done, with little or no real consequence. 

My path in this life looked really dark, moving forward. 

It was in my darkest hour, in my most vulnerable state of mind, when that force came to me, gently and quietly. 

I was in jail, and it was in a small room used for church, I was sitting in a chair with my back facing a wall and in a circle of men, they were passing around a plastic dish with communion wafers in it. 

It was as I was about to take and receive communion. 

The person to my right was reaching to me, handing me the dish, that’s when a bright light shone or. Covered my eyes and I lost my sight, like I was going to pass out. 

So I just tried to open my eyes wide but still only seeing the bright light, as I reached out my right hand, placing it under the hand of the person giving me the dish, my left hand taking it from him, I took a wafer by feeling for it and with my eyes now closed, I quickly passed the dish to the person to my left. I then put my head back against the wall and quietly said a short prayer; “Father God, I’m not sure if this is You or the effects of one of many types of drugs I have taken, I just know if this is You, I pray You do with me as You wish, I am not worthy to receive You and I have lived in sin for so long, will You forgive me?” After saying that prayer I sat there and my sight slowly returned. When church was over and I was returned to my jail cell, this is when I knew and believed that force I felt always around me, it was there to protect me and teach me the Way, and how to use God’s Word, my sword and my Faith as my shield.

For the next month I spent all my time reading the Bible given me, devouring each word and sentence. I understood the entirety of all I read and the words were like jumping out of the book and into my head. That’s when I felt God’s Peace, knowing everything was going to be ok.

That’s the day my life changed and I joined the children of the light, a man of faith and believing.

Praise God!

🕊️ “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,

Nor have entered into the heart of man

The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. 

For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 

For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? 

Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness

to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 

But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For “who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ. 🕊️

1 Corinthians 2:9-16

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet. bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

I raise my hands toward the dawn of a new beautiful moon filled sky at dawn.

The rays of sunshine come with that freshness of a new day, everything is new!

All my sins are forgiven, my Lord, Jesus Christ, has freed me from the weight of the sin within me.

I walk this day with confidence in my step, not by the mind of flesh, but my spirit is one with His Spirit within me, my steps are bold and beautifully ordered by the Spirit of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. My heart is filled with the Love only He can give.

Thank You Father!

O Lord, my God, I pray You breathe Your Spirit in the hearts of my children, my grandchildren, and my sweet little great-grandchildren. 

May Your angels watch over them this day and keep them safe!

May the work of their hands be blessed and their relationships continue to blossom.

May Your light shine bright in all we say and do this day Lord, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

Hallelujah! 🕊️

🕊️ I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day, greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy, when I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also. 

Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my

hands. 

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. 🕊️

2 Timothy 1:3-7

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

All these blessings, I am filled with Joy!

Remembering the first day Your Spirit filled my heart, mind and soul.

That special day followed me through a failed attempt to rekindle my first marriage, finding out I was betrayed and then abandoned, again. 

You were with me and protected me through my fall from the Grace You gave me, and yet You still remained watch over me. You protected me from imploding and certain death. You led me to the still waters, joining my brother to live together, both escaping our past and looking for a better future. 

Your Holy Spirit brought a spiritual awakening for my brother and then myself.

We, together escaped our lives and dove headlong into an ascending future, one filled with Faith and Believing. 

Thank You Father!

Our Faith and prayers, together, led our mother into the light of Your presence in our life change and believing. Our mother has been a driving example for us all, before and after her awakening as a child of the light.

Now I look upon those days and I’m praising God for the souls we watched mature in their faith.

We witnessed our Faith to our lost father and was able to bring him to church. We watched him accept You and Your Salvation in his life and we were there until his last breath, his knowing he would be with You soon comforted him in his passing.

Today I still remember back as I watched our mother reading Your Holy Word, daily, she remains my inspiration. Despise the human flesh, her spirit and Yours, within her shone bright, until her passing.

I pray Father, above all else in this world, Your Spirit fill me and use me to bring glory to Your Holy name, and may Your light within me, shine bright, in all I say and do, and may my Generational Blessings of this day, pass onto my children, my grandchildren, and my latest great granddaughter, as Your children of the light, in Jesus’ name, Amen!   

🕊️ Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. 

Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.

So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” 

And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 

If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” 🕊️

John 20:19-23

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Good morning. Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

My spirit rejoices and I’m blessed, each time I read this scripture passage.

Specifically, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” 

When I first read these words, I felt them, in my spirit, I felt them as a commission, as if The Lord, Jesus Christ, was standing before me, saying these words to me, with no one else in the room.

I knew from that point, my life was different and would be filled with wonderful things.

Ever since that day, I have looked forward to each challenge and every interaction and experience.

When I rise up each morning I look forward to my prayers to You, O Lord!

I view every day as I did that same first day, with Jesus Christ standing before me, showing me His nail scarred hands, saying “Peace” and breathing His Holy Spirit on me.

I continue to sense Him showing me, teaching me, and admonishing me, in every daily encounter and experience. 

God’s Truth, guides my way and my purpose is clear, I must shine His light in the world around me, in all I say and do. I can’t say it enough, it drives me! 

At first I was so excited to share His word or love and kindness, I was like a torch instead of a candle to light my way through the darkness before me. 

Many years have passed and my interactions with different types of people, and with so many life challenges, I still meet each new challenge the same, with an open mind and a heart filled with Love. 

I feel so much more relaxed now, when speaking to believers and strangers alike, but I still feel the same excitement as when I first believed, it remains a driving force in my day. 

The key for me, the secret to my success, it’s not a secret at all, but simply remembering to commit to my daily prayer time before the start of my day.

When speaking to a store clerk, or someone at a bus stop, or anyone in my path as I work or play, I feel compelled to share His Love, in a simple smile, a kind word, or an act of compassion.

Father, thank You for this day, to see You again, standing before me and blessing me with Your Holy Spirit. 

I feel Your strength within me, to meet the challenges before me.

I earnestly pray early each day, reaching out to Your Holy Spirit to continue His work in and through me, in all I say and do, I pray all these things, in Jesus’ name, Amen!  

🕊️ Finally, brothers, rejoice. 

Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you. 

Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the saints greet you.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. 🕊️

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

Another day filled with Your grace!

Thank You Father!

I pray Your Spirit fill my mind with Your Word, my heart with Your love, and may I shine bright, this day, in all I say and do, In Jesus’ name, Amen!

🕊️ Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 

For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. 

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. 

More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. 🕊️

Romans 5:1-11

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

Amazing. Grace indeed!

I Praise You Lord for allowing me to join You as your child of The light!

In reading Your Holy Word Father, I am so excited to be forgiven my sin and have the opportunity to be reconciled to You by my Faith in Jesus Christ, my Savior and Lord. 

Bless me this day O Lord, fill me with Your Spirit and may Your light in me shine bright in all I say and do, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

🕊️ “No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light.

Your eye is the lamp of your body.

When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.

Therefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness.

If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light.” 🕊️

Luke 11:33-36

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

What a marvelous light I see and feel in Your Holy Word!

I pray Lord, fill me with Your Holy Spirit this day, 

and may Your light shine bright in all I say and do, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

🕊️ Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good;

for his steadfast love endures forever!

Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the LORD.

This is the gate of the LORD; the righteous shall enter through it.

I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation.

The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.

This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Save us, we pray, O LORD!

O LORD, we pray, give us success!

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD!

We bless you from the house of the LORD.

The LORD is God, and he has made his light to shine upon us.

Bind the festal sacrifice with cords, up to the horns of the altar!

You are my God, and I will give thanks to you; you are my God; I will extol you.

Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! 🕊️

Psalms 118:1, 19-29

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for our beautiful daughter!

Every day I will rise to the morning’s light, lift my hands up and look for Your blessing on my day.

I pray Father, You bless my family this day, may we enjoy our time together and build up our bond to one another. 

Fill me with Your Spirit O Lord, may I see with Your eyes, Love with Your heart and Speak with Your wisdom. May Your light shine in and through me this day, in all I say and do, in Jesus’ name, Amen! 

🕊️ So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 

For it stands in Scripture:

“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”

So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe,

“The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”

and

“A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.”

They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 

Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. 

Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation. 🕊️

1 Peter 2:1-12

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

Thank You for Your forgiveness, through the blood shed by my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who died so I might live. He is the cornerstone the builders rejected, just as many have rejected me in my life, for my sins and transgressions. Thank You O Lord, for lifting me up from the dung heap, You held Your outstretched hand and picked me up out of the mire and muck and made me clean.

You declared me anew, born again, a child of the light, in Jesus Christ.

All those who hate me and who have forsaken me, they are lost to me. 

O Lord please, I pray Lord, forgive them, may they see through Your eyes, may Your Spirit fill them and make them whole.

Thank You Lord for the work of the faith, to bring others to the light, may Your Spirit which flows in and through me this day, may it be the example, the effort, which causes others to come to the light.

Like a moth to the flame, may Your Light in me shine bright, in all I say and do, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

🕊️ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 

In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 

Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls. 🕊️

1 Peter 1:3-9

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

These days I walk in the night, although a child of The Way, I see and hear and experience very dark, actions, emotions, and loveless acts of our leaders, and I am filled with sadness when hearing from those who report back what’s happening to my brethren in my city and neighborhoods where I live.

I pray Father, Your Holy Spirit fill me this day. 

May I find the beauty in all life around me and see the good in all men, may I walk with a clear mind and sight of the goal before me, my purpose, loving my neighbor as myself.

May I walk with my path as a righteous soul, unfettered by the rules and judgements of man. 

Show me the path You have for me to travel this day,

Hold my hand Father, through my daily walk with You, my daily reading of Your Word, and my meditations in my heart, may my actions reveal Love and honesty, which only comes from You Lord.

May my actions be the evidence of a child of light, following in his Father’s footsteps, and may I shine the light of God in all I say and do, in Jesus’ name, Amen! 

🕊️ Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. 

Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. 

Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 

And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. 

And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. 

The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. 

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.

My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins. 🕊️

James 5:13-19

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank you for my beautiful daughter!

I praise You for each morning, where all things are new, and fresh and clean!

My heart reach up to You for strength for another day, to be Your child of light, walking upon the earth, serving Your will and bringing glory to Your holy name.

Fill me with Your Spirit O Lord, may I always sense Your presence within me and use me to lead others to Your holy Word of truth.

May I shine Your light in all I say and do this day, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

🕊️ Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge.

I say to the LORD, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.”

As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.

The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply; their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out or take their names on my lips.

The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot.

The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.

I bless the LORD who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me.

I have set the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.

Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure. For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.

You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. 🕊️

Psalms 16

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

All so many are Your blessings You rain upon us daily, my family prospers.

These blessings are the little miracles we mostly take for granted, no more, they are now forever on my lips, with my heart of Praise for Your tender Mercy and Grace, when I least deserve it.

Thank You Father for keeping me under Your arm and trusting me with Your Holy Spirit.

May I bring glory to Your Holy name, in all I say and do this day, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

🕊️ Arise, shine, for your light has come,

and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you.

For behold, darkness shall cover the earth,

and thick darkness the peoples;

but the LORD will arise upon you,

and his glory will be seen upon you.

And nations shall come to your light,

and kings to the brightness of your rising. 🕊️

Isaiah 60:1-3

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

All that I am and all I possess are blessings from You O Lord!

Fill me with Your Spirit Father, may I bring glory to You holy name this day, and may I shine Your light in and through all I say and do, in Jesus’ name, Amen! 

🕊️  I bless the LORD who gives me counsel;

in the night also my heart instructs me.

I have set the LORD always before me;

because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. 🕊️

Psalms 16:7-8

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

So many blessings, I cannot even count them. 

Thank You O Lord!

Fill me with You Spirit this day O Lord! 

May I shine Your light in and through all I say and do, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

🕊️ “The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock,

and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation 🕊️

2 Samuel 22:47

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

Blessings of Mercy, Grace, and Truth, 

You’ve given me so much O Lord, Thank You!

Bless my children Father, may Your angels guard over them and keep them safe.

Bless my sweet bride this day, may her love and kindness be felt by all she serves.

Fill me with Your Spirit O Lord, may Your light shine in and through me this day, in all I say and do, In Jesus’ name, Amen!

🕊️ You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 

No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. 

An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. 

It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops. 

Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel, for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. 

But the word of God is not bound! 

Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. 

The saying is trustworthy, for:

If we have died with him, we will also live with him;

if we endure, we will also reign with him;

if we deny him, he also will deny us;

if we are faithless, he remains faithful—

for he cannot deny himself. 🕊️

2 Timothy 2:1-13

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my Sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

Everything I am today, All that I possess, they are Your blessings in my life.

Thank You Father, for Your Son, Jesus Christ, who died so I might life.

Thank You Father, I know what it is like to lose 2 of my sons, to be Your child, I know what it means!

Help me Father, to be a better son, to bring Praise and glory to Your holy name!

Bless me this day Father, with Your Holy Spirit, that as Your child of the light, I might shine Your light in me, in all I say and do, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

Spiritual Blessings in Christ

🕊️ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with

which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory. 🕊️

Ephesians 1:3-14

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful children!

All the days of my life Lord, You have blessed the work of my hands and Your angels have watched over me, up to this day. Thank You Father!

I lift up my hands before You this day O Lord;

I’m holding all my children and grandchildren up to You in my heart continually,

I’m praying for their safety, I pray for their mind’s eye to see Your glory, Your Grace, Your Love, in everything they see before them. 

May Your Holy Spirit fill them this day Father!

I pray my children may be Your children of the light, may they shine bright this day, and every day, in all they say and do, in Jesus’ name Amen!

🕊️ So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. 

I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:

“Death is swallowed up in victory.”

“O death, where is your victory?

O death, where is your sting?”

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. 🕊️

1 Corinthians 15:42-58

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful children!

Thank You for my health!

Thank You for the home I now live in!

All that I possess and All that I am is Yours O Lord!

You are the reason for my being; 

You are the reason my eyes have been opened.

You give my mind’s eye vision into the Spiritual truths I now hold dear! 

This body You have raised from the dust, will return to the same, and then, it is only by Faith, by Grace, I may walk each day alive according to the Way, guided by the Truth and Your Holy Spirit.

I look for each day and new opportunities to do better, to improve my living processes and together with the Spiritual, make the changes which bring me one step closer to my Creator, my God, Yahweh.

In my flesh I am not worthy of God. My thoughts betray me and I struggle to walk in the path of the Light. 

In my spirit I am a child of the light, my struggle with my flesh is measured and my sinful nature suppressed.

I walk into the heavenly realm each time I close my eyes and meditate on You Lord.

My way is Your way O Lord, may Your Spirit continue my training each day, may I walk each day according to Your Spirit’s guidance, may I improve in my walk and in the Words I share with others.

I pray my light, the one You’ve blessed me with, may it shine bright, in all I say and do this day, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

🕊️ Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 

For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. 🕊️ 

Romans 6:12-13

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

All that I am and possess, all of it is because of Your blessing on my life.

Thank You Father for Your Holy Spirit filling my heart with Love and Grace. 

I pray O Lord, may Your light in me shine bright this day, in all I say and do, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

🕊️ Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. 🕊️

Hebrews 13:18-21

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

Praise God, I am able to have that steadfastness in my faith and walk in the Way.

Thank You Lord, for Your Spirit, within me, to keep me on the right path.

All that I am and possess, Lord, I thank You and Praise You for Your many blessings.

There are so many paths to follow and distractions along the way, it’s difficult at times to know which path is best for my walk and my family. My strategy is to just let go and pray for God’s direction.

I pray O Lord, You fill me with Your Spirit, in all I say and do this day, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

🕊️  For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

Keep in Step with the Spirit!

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. 🕊️

Galatians 5:13-25

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

All that I have and all that I am, is because of Your blessings in my life.

Thank You for watching over me for these years, providing me with a beautiful soul mate and partner, a wonderful baby girl, a life of peace, the simple things, comfort, safety, and beyond our needs. Thank You Lord!

I pray this day Father, You fill me with Your Spirit, that I might be Your child of the light, shinning bright, in the darkness which surrounds us, may I shine Your light, this day, in all I say and do, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

🕊️ The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.

There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard.

Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.

In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber,

and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.

Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them,

and there is nothing hidden from its heat.

The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul;

the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;

the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart;

the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes;

the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever;

the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.

More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold;

sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.

Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward. 🕊️

Psalms 19:1-11

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter!

Your Word is Great! I praise Your holy name this day!

Your Spirit lifts me up and makes me stand, and plants my feet on solid ground.

Joy and Love fill my heart, I am forever hopeful.

Righteousness and Truth, they lead me, my thoughts, they may deceive me, yet Your Holy Spirit guides my way and keeps my path straight. Hallelujah!!!

Thank You for this day O Lord!

Thank You for my life!

Bless my family this day and keep them safe from all harm.

I pray your Spirit fill each of them as they travel and visit other family members. May their words and their warm embrace be a comfort and a blessing.

May Your Light shine bright in us all this day, in all we say and do, in Jesus’ name, Amen!