Prayer for Wednesday 8-31-2022

Dear Father in Heaven, open our hearts to see and feel how our lives have been blest. Open our hearts to Your unfailing blessings so that we may look forward in thankfulness and joy to what lies ahead. Grant that we may be faithful to what we have received from You and never again lose ourselves in the passing moment. Teach us to be gracious and full of gratitude. May we hold to all You have brought to our hearts from eternity, that Your name may be honored and our lives shaped anew in Jesus Christ. Give us courage to overcome the evils in life and to look with joy and confident expectation to the future, when the powers of Your Kingdom will be ever more clearly revealed, and our Redeemer, Jesus Christ is sitting rightfully on His throne. In His glorious name, the name above all other names, we ask these things of You.

Amen.

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