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My Mind Is a Repertoire Filled with Contaminants

8/10/2026

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” — Romans 12:1 (KJV)

I thank You, Lord, for the gift of salvation. I mostly think about Your involvement in my day-to-day activities instead of the everlasting life You have granted me. I want to be a living sacrifice to You. I seek to be holy. There are so many impediments to contaminate the sacrifice. I must turn from the contamination. This is Your will. I must fight to stay clean by not being shaped or directed by the contaminants. I have realized that much of the contamination comes from the mind. It is a repertoire of dangerous arrows that can enter the soul. I ask You, Lord, please let me be strong in thwarting the arrows that seek to destroy me.

Help Me to Accept Your Will

8/3/2026

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." — James 1:17 (KJV)

Lord, help me to do Your will. Thank You for the blessings I have. I completely realize that all the positive happenings in my life are because of You, and nothing from me. You have taken a wounded vessel, and put it in environments where it appears to do well. If the vessel appears in any way as strong or competent, it is only because of You, Lord. I relinquish all control of my life over to You. I ask that You take every iota of me and turn it into what you want. I ask that I see You in Your holiness and accept that I am only a mere mortal person with a finite existence. What is there for me to be proud of? I give myself to You so that You can do with me what You will. Therefore, I accept all occurrences in my life as something that You have ordained. Help me to accept Your will and not try to buck against it.

Let Not My Feelings Get in the Way of Serving You

7/27/2026

O Lord,

Give me strength to run the race that is set before. Please help me to not be swayed to the left or right, but keep on course. I realize that many feelings can enter into the heart. It is not only the mind that directs behaviors, but feelings also. As a Christian, I must learn to master my mind and feelings. At this time of my understanding, I don’t know how the Bible refers to feelings. I know they are not just the mind because feelings began to control the thoughts that come from the mind. I must work on controlling my feelings. I don’t want to falter because I feel disheartened. Help me to understand feelings. I will trust You to have uplifting and inspiring feelings.

I am Learning to Partner with You

7/20/2026

Lord, I am learning to partner with You. Your Word says that Christians are Your body. We are You in action. I am learning that I must allow You to work through me. I often cut You off by trying to do something my way. I seek to fix it with my own strength. I am learning that this is a reason for prayer: to turn things over to You so that You can work.

I should not try to do things on my own. I must pray and let You work it out, then I can abide with the outcome. I am seeking for You to control everything that pertains to me.

Give me, please, the self-control to allow You to work in my life. Your work in my life will be to uplift You and uplift others. I will seek You diligently. I will trust You and lean not on my own understanding.

I Cast Down the Stronghold of My Past

7/13/2026

I will conform to You, Lord. I will seek to know not my will but Your Word in my life. I cast down the stronghold of my past against me. I am choosing to forget those things that have bonded me. I am free in You, Lord. I claim freedom from all ill-effects from socialization. I claim to know only the new life in Christ Jesus. I flush my entire system clean of the wickedness that came from socialization. I bring forth a new light in Christ Jesus. I thank You for the knowledge of Your excellency. I accept my entrance into Your holies of holies where Christ Jesus dwells. I ask for forgiveness of my trespasses in living under the curse of socialization. I thank You, Lord, for letting me be a new creation in You. Let me reap the fullness of Your benefits. I realize that I have passed from death to life. I am requiring of me to live blameless in Your majesty. I believe, Lord, that You will take care of every iota of my life. I want to be strong in keeping the sabotage that comes from my mind away from the blessings You have for me.

I Will Pray More to Shun My Mind

7/6/2026

O Lord, I am seeking Your fullness in me. I have realized that the mind is a source of corruption. I must destroy the works of my mind that seek to turn me from You. I am learning how to pray. I am learning to trust You for everything.

I must lose who I think I am, learning only to know the way You want me to be. I am learning that the source of who I think I am is in my mind. I must shun all the desires that stem from my mind. I will abolish the habitat of the evilness that starts the thoughts and perception.

O Lord, help me to be strong in receiving Your Spirit and putting my ways aside. I will pray more diligently so that I can conform to You.

I Want to Bear Your Fruit

6/29/2026

Thank You, Lord, for my life. You have given me much. You have granted me the desires of my heart. You have fulfilled everything Your Word says about one who sets his ways on You. I desire to trust in You more. I desire to forget myself and know nothing but You. However, many times the flesh kicks up and tries to set me living in my own way. I thank You for giving me the desire to turn from wanting to sin. I desire to have a complete fill of Your Spirit. I want to know nothing except You. I desire to know nothing that my flesh wants to support. Let me leave those ways behind. I accept Your fruit. I denounce the ways of evil of hindrances to knowing You more.

Lord, please let me be strong. I have determined that You have given me the tools to be a soldier for You. I must only cultivate them.

I Must Learn How to Pray

6/22/2026

You have equipped me with the tools I need to be a soldier for You.

You have granted me wisdom.

You have blessed me with the ability to shape things with the tools.

I must now be diligent about applying the wisdom You have granted me.

I have discovered that the application of wisdom comes through prayer.

I must learn how to pray.

Give Me Strength to Submit Myself To You

6/15/2026

Give me strength, O Lord, so that I can always have You in my hope to live. I want to have peace in You so that I know what I should always be doing. I want to have the fullness of Your Spirit in my life. Whatever situation I have, please let me know that You are in charge of it.

I have faith that You will constantly keep me where I need to be so I can be close to You. Give me the strength to endure the spiritual battles that occur in trying to make me turn my faith from You. I declare that I will hold firm to You. I will not look or feel my flesh. I will know nothing except You. I will forget and put away all things that come to try to make me distrust You or to find joy in it through sin. I submit myself to You.

I Will Uplift Everyone I Encounter

6/8/2026

O Lord, I realize that my purpose in You, besides loving You, is to love others by uplifting them.

As Isaiah 58 says, I desire to know and seek You. Yet, most often I attempt to seek You through only having a one-on-one relationship. However, I realize that seeking You involves others. It means that I must seek to help others through loving them. I must seek to do Your will by loving others.

I realize now that seeking You just doesn’t come from knowing You without having interaction with others. I will seek to uplift everyone with whom I come in contact.