Prayer for Monday 7-18-2022

Lord our God, we thank You for being among us as our Father, for letting us be Your children on earth. We thank You that as Your children we can find life in spirit and in truth. Grant that each of us may find how our lives on earth can be lifted up by Your Spirit. Your Spirit can bring us what we do not possess, so that our daily work, all our striving and struggling for the outward things of life, may be overcome by what is higher and greater. Your Spirit can keep us from falling into base and petty ways, from getting lost in earthly experiences which do not last, no matter how much they demand our attention. We thank You for all You have done for us, Your children. Continue to help us, that we may continue to serve You every day in gladness and gratitude, to the glory of Your name. In Christ Jesus we sincerely ask these things.

Amen.

Adapted from the Daily Written Prayers of Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, 1842–1919. In Public Domain