A Blessed Morning Prayer To Start Your Day

Be blessed as you meditate on God’s word and listen to this inspirational morning devotional prayer.

Dear God

As I begin this Thursday morning, I come to you with a heart full of gratitude and a spirit of hope. Thank you for giving me another day to live, to love, and to make a difference in the world.

As I go about my day, please guide my thoughts and actions, and help me to be kind and compassionate to those I encounter. Help me to be patient with those who test my patience and to be forgiving towards those who have wronged me.

Grant me the strength to face any challenges that come my way, and the wisdom to make good decisions. Help me to trust in your plan for my life, and to have faith that everything will work out in the end.

Finally, please bless my loved ones and keep them safe and healthy. May they feel your presence and know that they are loved.

Thank you for hearing my prayer.

Amen.

Time is the most precious commodity that we have.
However, unlike other commodities, time is something that we all want more of.
But it’s also something we have no ability to acquire. We cannot negotiate our way to having more time.
We cannot set up accounts that accumulate the interest of time.
We cannot establish businesses or give ourselves to a job to acquire more time. Time owns us.
Not the other way around. We cannot control time. Time controls us, time restricts us even.
And as a result, most of us have uttered the words.
If I only had more time, I’m sure we have all said these words at some point.
If only we had more time to complete this or that task, if only we had more time to invest in this or that relationship, if only we had more time, we would do this.
If only we had more time, we would learn a new language, travel more, spend more time with family, invest in our friendships, not worry so much about work and money, invest more in our relationship with God and do more for the cause of Christ.
If only I had more time we have all uttered these statements at one point or another.
The tragedy is that many people come to this realization late in life and for some, it will be far too late when they realize how precious time is.

Too many people realize the importance of time when they’re in a desperate situation.
It’s the man on his deathbed or the woman who’s been diagnosed with an illness that truly appreciates time.
Several biblical authors knew of this human tendency to feel like we have more time than we do.
Proverbs tells us, do not boast about tomorrow for you do not know what a day may bring.
James chapter four verse 13 to 15 says, come now you who say today or tomorrow, we’ll go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit.
Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life for?
You are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
Instead, you ought to say if the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.
And finally, Jesus tells us in Matthew 24 verse 44 you also must be ready all the time for the son of man will come when least expected Jesus’s point is that we must not presume that we have more time or put off developing our relationship with God because tomorrow is not promised and time could come to an end at any time, Jesus implores not to be in a mind state of getting ready, but being ready.
In other words, we should always be ready.
We should always be working on improving our relationship with Christ and on utilizing our gifts for his glory.
If we are always in a state of readiness, we will not have to worry about time.
So dear brothers and sisters use the time that you have wisely invest in the things of the Lord, invest in your relationship with the Lord.
Now let us pray. Dear Lord Jesus Christ, you are great and awesome.
Help us to be people who live ready with expectation and hope for your second coming.
Help us to be wise with our time. Here on earth, teach us to be prayerful people.
Lord, when faced with danger, teach us not to be afraid, to not be fearful but to pray.
And father, there are times when we as your Children simply don’t know what to do.
There are times when we are so overwhelmed and run down by the issues of life.
In those times, Lord Jesus, I pray that your grace would flow and keep our eyes firmly fixed on you.
The creator of heaven and earth. Lord, I pray for the person who is listening right now.
Give them a heart that is mindful of eternity.
May the Holy Spirit speak to every listener and convict their hearts of sin.
Move us to repent and turn away from all wickedness.
May the holy ghost help to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus Christ.
Father, I pray for the one who is on the edge.
I pray for the person who is listening and feels as though they have hit rock bottom.
They feel surrounded by the enemy.
Lord, we stand on your word which says the Lord will keep you from all evil.
He will keep your life. The Lord will keep you going out and you’re coming in from this time forth and forever more regardless of what comes against we believe and trust in your word that you will keep us from all evil, regardless of what the devil schemes and plots against us, we believe and trust in your word that you will preserve us and defend us from all evil in our weakness.
May your strength be shown King Jesus in our darkest moments. May your light offer us refuge and joy.
Holy Spirit help us to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus Christ, help us not to get distracted by the enemies in front of us or the problems around us.
Instead, I pray that you would keep our eyes firmly on Jesus Christ.
I believe that when we fix our eyes on Jesus Christ, our strength is renewed, our problems become insignificant and the enemy becomes irrelevant.
Hebrews 12 verse 1 to 2 says, therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles and let us run with the perseverance.
The race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith for the joy set before him.
He endured the cross scorning its shame. And sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
We indeed look to you King Jesus and I pray that you would help us to lay aside everything that weighs us down, help us to lay aside all that burdens us.
May we only carry that which has been blessed by the Lord. You have all authority, King Jesus.
And so we put our hope and trust in you blessed be your holy name.
Amen.