"Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that built it:
Unless the Lord protects a city, guarding it...will do no good." Psalm 127.
"Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman that feareth the Lord , she shall be praised..."- Proverbs 31:30-31.
Merciful Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, we thank you for placing eternity in our heart, endowing us with the faith to move mountains and to cast them into the sea, and also the ability to believe YOU: your word, will, and way for our life- receiving all that you have for us.
Just as your word affirms in Ecclesiastes 3:11, [God] has made every thing beautiful in his time and placed eternity in our heart, yet we cannot figure out all the work that God has made from beginning to end.
Abba Father, help us to stay focused on you: never trying to get ahead of you.
We know that we cannot do any thing, successfully, without you.
Our human, selfish ambition will try to encourage us that we can do anything, but 1 Corinthians 10:23 reminds us every thing is not beneficial...every thing is not constructive...every thing does not edify.
Isaiah 53:2 tells us that Jesus was not physically beautiful in the conventional ways that would have drawn us to him: that he was a man rejected and acquainted with sorrows.
Holy Trinity, we thank you for showing us the beauty of looking at the heart versus the outward appearance: 1 Samuel 16:7.
Never let us go, Lord God Almighty.
We choose you. We loose, put off, and take off any thing that is not of you.
We receive your covering: your covenant.
We receive healing, abundant life, and prosperity.
We receive your instruction for being a good steward over and with our blessings.
We repent of our sin.
We receive your unconditional love and forgiveness.
We forgive our debtors.
We receive all of the blessings that you have for us.
Jesus is the Lord.
Amen.