Life Is Precious…
Today, let’s thank the Lord for the life we have been given. Let’s pray Psalm 139 together.
You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand—when I awake, I am still with you. If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty! They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name. Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you? I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Father, thank you for the life you have given us. Today, no matter what comes our way on the journey, you are with us. We ask you, oh God, for wisdom and discernment and thank you for giving it to us so graciously. Just as the mountains surround Jerusalem you surround your people. I thank you that you bless the work of our hands. We continue to give you permission to search us and know our hearts and remove any anxious thoughts. We will put our trust in you, for you are a God that sees it all. You know every detail of our lives and your desire is to bless us. Your Word says in Matthew 7:11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask Him! Today, we ask and receive it.
God, you knew where each of us would be on this day, before we were even born. We don’t ever want to take for granted what you have blessed us with. Numbers 23:19 states God is not a man that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change His mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does He promise and not fulfill? I have received a command to bless, He has blessed it and I cannot change it.
Today, all across this globe we thank you for life.
Have A Blessed Day, For this is the Day the Lord has made and we will rejoice and be glad in it.
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