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Seeking to Rid Myself of My Former Way of Life

4/20/2026

Having one’s way tuned to You means giving up all former ways of living: philosophies, thoughts, behaviors, associates, likes, desires and perspectives. Living for You requires the acceptance of Your standard: truth, justice, righteousness, love, humility, prudence and display of Godly knowledge. I seek to rid myself of my former way of life. However, I continue to resurrect it. I evoke stimuli that give life to the old. I must abolish all ties with the stimuli. I must discard whatever system that is perpetuating life to the old.

Once the old is devoid of life, I can be free to welcome You entirely in my life, thus bearing fruit of Your Spirit. I, right now, summon myself to kill all stimuli that try to resurrect my old self. I cut off its lifeline. I seek only to know Your life.

Help me Lord.

I Want to Know Your Eternal Life

4/13/2026

O Lord,

I have realized that most, if not all, of my attention to You deals with my life on earth. I want to realize the significance of focusing on You in dealing with eternal life. Eternal life is the reason that Jesus died and rose. I feel in my spirit that I must turn away from focusing on my existence here and focus on my eternal life. Too often, spirituality is associated with being spiritual on this earth.

I desire to turn from this spirituality and seek the spirituality that is solely from above. I want my spirituality to focus on having life everlasting, not having abundant life on earth.

I will seek this more, Lord, as I understand Your Word. I seek You and Your governance in my life.

I Surrender This Life to You

4/6/2026

O Lord,

Let me be content with what you give me. Let me have peace with it. Let me understand what You have for me. I don’t want to buck against any plan that You put in place for me.

Let me just accept the things that happen to me because I know that I am in Your will. I seek to have You more in my life. I want to be totally consumed by Your Spirit. I surrender this life to You. I stake no claim to it.

You continuously prove Your love to me. I am enlightened daily with something new about You. I must recognize more of Your blessings. There is no reason why I should have been dismayed.

I must only trust in You and look at the goodness You are presenting me. I declare that I have overcome the world; I must only believe and live according to this declaration.

Forgive me as I forgive others.

Help Me Want to Pray More

3/30/2026

O Lord,

In wanting to be more like You, I must become more immune to stimuli in the environment. I cannot be jerked by every little that produces. I must be strong in You, O Lord. I ask that I can be humble in all my dealings with others. Help me to love them. Help me to give love where others are sure that it is from You. I am seeking You, Lord. I am learning how to get closer to You. It comes through prayer. I realize that prayer enables execution of Your Word in my life. I can be full with Your word but I need to pray to make it work. Help me to want to pray more.

I Annihilate My Will

3/23/2026

O Lord,

I am seeking to love more. I saw the fruit that grows as a result of giving love. I want to realize the profoundness of loving You and others. I realize that loving You allows me to enter Your rest. Loving others provides the condition for amicable relationships and settledness with each other. O Lord, thanks for providing this knowledge to me. Let me now have wisdom with it. I am determined to love You and love others more. I will seek only this. I will trust that You will take care of all other matters in my life. You know what I desire. I pronounce myself dead to me. I annihilate my will. I welcome Your resurrecting Spirit to give me life. I ask for the wisdom to follow Your way. Let me know nothing else. I destroy my mind that was made of the flesh and welcome the renewed mind of the Spirit, which is of the present and future, not of the past.

Please Keep Me Intact

3/16/2026

Have mercy on my soul. You keep my soul. You have set me in places where I thought at one time I would never be. You have given me love. You have taken away the hurt, frustration, pride, inferiority complex, anger, deceit, and other negative feelings and behaviors. In lieu of these, You have given me Your fruit. I now must recognize and accept Your blessing. I realize that the things I once sought were not of You. My flesh had overtaken me. I had become a product of unrighteousness. I was the sport of my enemies, the flesh and satan. O Lord, I thank You for the deliverance. I ask that You keep me in tack. I thank You for your mercy and goodness.

You Equip Me to Do Your Will

3/9/2026

Have mercy on me, dear Lord. Let me be secured in You. Let me know that I have all things in You. I need nothing else. I can live in this world and not be anxious about anything that can happen to me. You will strengthen me to go the course I must, and You will defend me against attacks and obstacles along the course. I can rest in You to take care of all my needs. You will provide me with the knowledge and skills to do your will. You will strengthen me in all ways so that I can stay the course that is set before me. You will implant ideas into my mind. You will give me the eye to see the hidden motives. You will be my support to hold me up when the times are treacherous. I thank you, Lord, for being my blood.

Let My Faith in You Increase

2/23/2026

Lord, I ask that my faith in You, providing all my needs, directing my plans, protecting my family and me, helping my unbelief, and trusting You, can increase. I want to have You in my life in all aspects. I realize that if You are present and leaned upon, You will come through with my expectations.

Sometimes, however, I fail to have expectations for You. I ask, Lord, that I can relax in You. Let me not take my eye off You. Let me seek to know You. Let me know your intricacies. As I move to know You more, I will not want to depart from the goodness that comes from knowing You. I acknowledge that I just have to let go, and let You be in total control of me.

Lord, I believe that You want me to acknowledge my vulnerability in this life. The more I learn to trust You for my existence, I will find that living is much easier and enjoyable. Lord, whatever You want of me, here I am. Let my mind be released from the chains of worldly influences. Let me be free so that I can see You as You are. Give me, please, my true heart’s desire. I stand against evil.

Keep Me Close to You

2/9/2026

Dear Lord,

I wonder what is the matter if I don’t feel the joy that I think I should be feeling because of staying close to You. This feeling creates the thoughts that I am not in Your perfect will. I am asking You to direct me and let me humble myself so that I can feel the closeness of your love. O Lord, please do not forsake, but let me know where I belong. I will seek You in the uttermost sense. I want to know Your will and not on the periphery of holiness but in the core of it. Lord, cleanse me so that I can dwell in Your presence.

I Put My Desires and Being into Your Hands

2/2/2026

Lord, as I seek You, let me not be distracted by my daily living in this world. I am constantly bombarded with so many stimuli. Often, I feel drained and devoid of my own desire and focus to actually serve You.

My earnest desire is to remain focused and completely in Your realm of living. I need You if I am ever to produce for others and myself. I falter when I am interrupted by my flesh wanting to be itself. Just like now, I get totally involved with the pleasures of what my flesh seeks. This becomes an idol because it takes me away from completely focusing on You. There shouldn’t be one thing that blocks or interferes with my mind staying on You. I must recognize what these blocks are and not let them be established.

I seek to have my glory as Your glory for without You there is not a me. Give me the strength so my mind is always on You, and help me to realize that whatever I do, in word, deed and thought, let me do it to Your honor. I mean everything that I could possibly say, do and think. I put my desires and being into Your hands.