11/09/2025
Morning Prayer
Your word is a lamp to walk by, and a light to illumine my path. ⏤ Psalm 119:105
The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is to pray. ⏤ S.D. Gordon
Our Father in Heaven, we, Your earthly children, worship You. We thank You for Your word, which we can read at the opening of the day, taking it as a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. May it be to us indeed a light this day, shining for us and showing us the way of holiness. We always need a divine lamp, for the earth is dark. Sin has made it perilous to travel on these treacherous ways without a lamp. No human friend can guide us infallibly. We cannot guide ourselves. We would never find the way home were it not for the light of truth which You have given, which makes every smallest part of the path through this world clear and plain if we will walk in the light.
Let us not try to walk in the light of our own understanding, stumbling and falling. We put our hands in Yours this morning, and we would be led by You all day. We do not know where our paths will take us. It may be that darkness lies before us, or hard and rough ways, or that we must enter some Gethsemane. Lead us, O Jesus, where You will, and give us grace to follow submissively.
We seek Your blessing upon all the work of this day. Show us what You would have us do. May we find the tasks You have in Your plan and purpose for us, and then do them faithfully. Let us never resist Your gracious leading.
Enable us always to do Your will, as it is done in Heaven. Bless us . . .
In our home life,
In our friendships,
In our social life,
In our play and work,
In our praying and serving,
In our toil and struggle,
In our joy and sorrow.
We ask all in the name of Jesus our Savior. Amen.
