Prayer for Monday

Dear Father in Heaven, we thank You that with our poor, faulty, sinful, and death-ridden lives we may continue to find shelter in Your love. We thank You that we are Your children and as Your children we are loved most graciously by You. We thank You that whatever we are, however depressed we are about ourselves and the inadequacy of our own nature, we are still and always will be Your children. Give us Your most gracious Spirit, we pray. Give us Your Holy Spirit, penetrating our whole nature, our flesh and blood, keeping us firm in faith under all temptation and distress, leading us and guiding us through all the twisting paths of life. Give us Your Spirit to fill us with hope as we look to the future, to fill us with certainty in our Lord Jesus Christ, who was, and is, and is to come, whose victory is before our eyes so that we never waver or become afraid. Give us Your Spirit so that we may steadfastly live in this certainty and prepare ourselves more and more for Your coming as King into the world. May we come to know that Your loving-kindness is at work today, that in the end Your deliverance, our redemption, will come quickly, to the glory of Your most precious and holy name. Jesus, name above all other names, through You we pray!

Amen.

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