Make It Your Daily Routine To Talk To God First | The Best Morning Prayers To Bless Your Day

a custom is a traditional and widely accepted way of Behaving or doing something that is specific to a particular society place or time a custom is an established way of doing things it's a habitual practice and a way of life now there is a man in the Bible who had an interesting custom in Daniel 6:10 the Bible says now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed he went home and in his upper room with his windows open toward Jerusalem he knel down on his knees three times that day and prayed and gave thanks before

his God as was his custom since early days Daniel was a man who had a custom that he respected a custom that he followed and honored you and I can learn something from the life of Daniel indeed he's most known for being thrown in the Lion's Den but if you follow his life closely there are things we can take away and Implement in our own lives the Bible said he knelt down on his knees three times that day and prayed and gave thanks before his God as was his custom since early days now I don't

know what your custom is I don't know what you do in the morning or in the evening I don't know what you hold in high regard when it comes to your habits I don't know if you have anything you habitually practice but I would like to encourage you I Pray by the grace of God that you would not take these words words lightly but may the Holy Spirit Hammer this message deep within your soul we should have a daily habit of prayer we need to make prayer a habitual practice it should be our established way

of doing things prayer was Daniel's custom and he was faithful to that practice now may I remind you that Luke 6:12 says now it came to pass in those days that he went out to the mountain to pray and continued all night in prayer to God that's Jesus being talked about here The Miracle Worker the one who stepped on water as though he was stepping on concrete with such power he still still prayed he prayed all [Music] night Luke 5 says so he himself often withdrew Into the Wilderness and prayed once again we're told about

the consistency of Jesus's prayer life there must be something to be gained from prayer Daniel practiced it three times a day Jesus did it often he consistently prayed all night there must be something to be gained from prayer Saints now join me and lift your faith as we pray for the Lord to birth a desire for prayer in our lives let us pray Lord Jesus great and awesome is your name to you I say holy to you I say wonderful and glorious father give me a prayerful Spirit just like Daniel let it be my custom

to pray daily to pray consistently and frequently and as I pray Lord I ask that the Holy Spirit would touch me and teach me how to pray so that I may not pray and speak in vain repetition but give me the grace to pray Under the Influence under the power of the Holy Ghost let my prayers be sincere and from the heart let my prayers not just be centered on what I want or what you can do for me but rather May the Holy Spirit lead me to offer prayers of Thanksgiving and praise prayers of

intercession Lord give me Grace let me not become a prayerless Christian because a prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian give me the grace and the discipline to be faithful in my time spent in prayer birth in me a desire to seek you a desire and a passion to chase after you I rebuke all other desires within me that fight or compete with my prayer [Music] time reveal to me the things in my life that are distractions or hindrances to my prayer life I pray that my passions and desires all lead me to one destination and

that is to be in constant fellowship with you through prayer and sometimes Lord Jesus I find it hard to pray I find it to be a fight just to pray in those moments would you strengthen me would you convict me Holy Spirit to fight through and spend time cultivating a good relationship with God Almighty light a fire within my heart ignite a fire within my spirit that will lead me to change my lifestyle to change the way I do things and what I practice on a daily basis let my life be Christ centered may I

really walk in in the spirit may I really walk by faith and not by sight Purge my heart so that it is clean and filled only by good things things which will help me in my walk with you cleanse my heart so that when I come to you Lord my heart will be positioned to seek your face and submit to your will because if if I am aligned with the will of God my prayers will be powerful and effective so help me to seek first the kingdom of God and bow to your will Lord I

acknowledge my dependence on you as my provider as the one who sustains me and preserves me may you take Delight in my prayer life may you take Delight in my custom and habits Lord so be glorified Lord may you continue to help me to build my prayer life may you continue to be with me and reveal yourself to me more and more each day I choose to meditate on your word day and night so that my mind may be infiltrated and filled with thoughts that are true Noble just pure lovely and of good report I

pray that your word would begin to change me from the inside out May I grow in knowledge of scripture may I be strong spiritually as my relationship with you is strengthened help me Lord Jesus so that my faith will not be choked out by the worries the pleasures or duties of this world help me to set my mind on things above father your word tells me that you are a strong hold in the day of trouble and even though the enemy has declared war against me I know that the angels of the Lord encamp around

me even though the devil and his army may rise up against me the word of God says that the power of life and death are wielded by my tongue and I declare victory in the name of Jesus may you be glorified forever and ever in the mighty name of Jesus Christ amen to the naked eye when you see a group of people it can look as though everyone is on the same page it can look as though they're all in harmony it can look as though everyone's happy everyone's at peace however the reality is that

beyond the surface every one of them is facing their own personal battles and I'm not talking about simply facing situations in Circ circumstances no I'm talking about real spiritual battles every one of us has our own spiritual battle to fight the Bible in 2 Timothy 3: 1-5 says but Mark this there will be terrible times in the last days people will be lovers of themselves lovers of money boastful proud abusive disobedient to their parents ungrateful Unholy Without Love unforgiving slanderous Without self-control brutal not lovers of the good treacherous rash conceited lovers of pleasure rather than

lovers of God having a form of godliness but denying its power have nothing to do with such people let's take a look at what verse 5 says people will have a form of godliness but deny its power what does this mean the Amplified translation says these people will hold on to a form of outward godliness religion although they have denied its power power for their conduct nullifies their claim of Faith avoid such people and keep far away from them the New Living Translation says they will act religious but they will reject the power that could

make them Godly stay away from people like that what a tragedy this is to hold on to the religion but let go of the Savior to hold on to the appearance but have no substance beneath the surface what a tragedy it is for someone to act religious talk religiously but have no relationship with Jesus Christ friends take a look at your own life do you do what you do for Jesus Christ or is it a tradition is it for show is there any authenticity to your faith ask yourself do I know Jesus Christ in private

for me to be claiming him in public because anybody can say anything given the right circumstances however when no one is looking when you're behind closed doors are you truly seeking Jesus Christ are you striving to have a relation a ship with the Lord now I once heard a pastor by the name of Adrien Rogers say something along the lines of if ever you have loved the Lord more than you currently do right now you've backslid if you've ever prayed more read the word of God more in the past than you do today you've back

sliden if you are no longer burning for God as much as you used to then you've backslid and I guess the point that this pastor was trying to put across was that you should be stronger in your faith today than you were yesterday and you should be stronger in your faith tomorrow than you are currently your love for Jesus should grow day by day your prayer life must be developing your spiritual understanding must be growing you ought to be maturing and growing in the Lord now no one is immune to backsliding so my own prayer

is that the Lord would have mercy on me may God have mercy on us all so that we don't fall so that we don't go backwards in our faith may God have mercy on us so that we will never be religious people who don't have Christ in their their hearts the Amplified translation for Galatians 5:17 it says for the sinful nature has its desire which is opposed to the spirit and the desire of the spirit opposes the sinful nature for these two the sinful nature and the spirit are in direct opposition to each other continually

in Conflict so that you as believers do not always do whatever good things you want to do you see our Earthly bodies they have a sinful nature however our spirit is what's drawn to God and so these two are in constant conflict your spirit wants to pray it needs to pray but your body it will all of a sudden feel tired or hungry your spirit wants to feed on God's word but your body suddenly remembers that your favorite television show will be coming on in a few minutes this is the conflict that we face on

a daily basis so now you may be asking how then do we govern this body well you can't separate yourself from your body in order to walk right before the Lord so then how do you gain the victory well Galatians 5 veres 24 and 25 say and those who are Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires if we live in the spirit let us also walk in the spirit those who belong to Jesus have crucified the flesh isn't that interesting crucifixion was a method of capital punishment it was torture to be crucified

for the person involved D crucifixion involved being bound and nailed the body would be strained under its own weight so now that you have some understanding of the brutality of crucifixion listen to this the Bible says those who are christs have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires crucifying yourh flesh is a painful process and no we're not talking about your flesh the skin that's on your bones no we're talking about the flesh that Earthly nature and for some people it's torture to crucify the flesh but when you're in Christ that's what you do

you crucify the flesh so that you can be alive to Jes Jesus and alive in Jesus and so I urge you brothers and sisters we have to crucify our flesh daily and this means that we have to kill our will and let the will of God Reign in our lives we have to kill our carnal mindset and become focused on the things above not on the things of this Earth You you see a carnal mindset looks at the here and now it's concerned with selfish Pleasures with accumulating money and wealth but a saved mind a

spirit that is quickened it's focused on eternity dear friends hold on to Jesus Christ walk in the spirit and be led by the spirit don't do the things of the flesh because the things of the flesh they will not last and so I encourage you dear friend return to Jesus Christ now let's pray father I give you honor and I give you praise at this moment in time Lord I'm praying in agreement with everyone listening and Lord Jesus we're seeking your forgiveness if ever there was a time in in the past that we were hungrier

for your presence more than today revive us Lord help us so that our fire doesn't dim or die down God revive our faith revive our prayer lives reignite the fire in our spirit so that we'll chase after you intensely Lord revive our desire to seek your presence help us not to to be weary and well-doing for in due season we will reap a harvest a harvest from Heaven a harvest that will shake and transform our families I believe and pray that we'll reap a harvest that will impact Generations in our bloodline Lord Jesus bring Revival

into our lives some of us have fallen backwards because of the cares of this world but I pray that the Holy Spirit Will convict our hearts to repent and run back to Jesus Christ some of us have fallen backwards because of the battles that we've faced however King Jesus I pray that you would heal our wounds and make us whole again make us whole so that we can keep fighting the good fight so that we can keep marching forward the Bible says in 1 Peter chapter 2 veres 2 and 3 like newborn babies crave pure

spiritual milk so that by it you may grow up in your salvation now that you have tasted that the Lord is good Lord Jesus I pray that you would help us to keep moving forward in faith to keep progressing in the faith never to go backwards but forever keep marching forward until the day that I stand before you King Jesus Lord I pray that you would cast down every Idol in my life everything that's pulling me backwards everything that's competing for your attention cast it down lord may you rule and reign in my life God

I desire to be obedient to your word which says in Exodus 20: 3-5 you shall have no other gods before me you shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in Heaven above or on Earth beneath or in the waters below you shall not bow down to them or worship them for I the Lord your God am a jealous God punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me I pray that you would search My Heart Lord and then God Purify

Me examine my passions and cleanse me Lord reveal to me whatever it may be that's holding me back lord Jesus I commit my life to you you have my attention you have my affection you have my loyalty King Jesus I refuse to idolize anything not money not relationship not any material things God give me the grace to live a pure and holy life I rebuke everything that seeks to exalt itself above you Lord and so I ask that you would clean up my heart God I glorify your name and I give you all the praise

I thank you Father for hearing my prayer in Jesus name I pray amen we sometimes take life for granted we take God's protection for granted but let me tell you that you are most vulnerable when you're comfortable the devil loves a comfortable Christian and God calls a comfortable Christian lukewarm and that's because you're neither hot nor cold you're neither here or there there's no urgency about you and there sure enough isn't any fire to your prayers however I want to emphasize the importance of prayer we need the Lord to watch over us and to protect

us the Bible says in Mark 14 verse 38 Watch and Pray so that you will not fall into temptation the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak you see when you are comfortable and prayerless you are in your weakest State as a Believer and friends let me tell you something when you are prayerless you are vulnerable to spiritual attacks you need to understand that the forces of Darkness operate in darkness both spiritually and in the physical too the devil is cunning and he certainly doesn't play fair he will wait until you've let your guard

down and you are dull in your spiritual senses because of a lack of prayer that's when he will attack but today I want to encourage you and remind you of the protection we have in Jesus Christ the devil may try whatever he wants but we are guarded by Jesus Christ we are shielded by Jesus Christ the blood of Jesus Christ has formed a perimeter around our homes the angel of the Lord encamps at our residence when we call on the name of the father I encourage you not to fear whatever comes your way because Jesus

Christ is a mighty protector he is a savior Jesus Christ will cover you and block the enemy so each and every day I encourage you to pray for the Divine protection that comes only from the Son of God it's the kind of protection that rebukes the enemy and exposes his plans it gives no power to spiritual attacks David a man after God's Own Heart said in Psalm 119:62 at midnight I Rise to praise you because of your righteous rules Jesus Christ in Matthew 16: 18 says and I tell you you are Peter and on this

rock I will build my church and the Gates of Hell shall not Prevail against it oh the Gates of Hell shall not Prevail this is something to declare to confess and proclaim the Gates of Hell shall not Prevail in this home the Gates of Hell shall not Prevail in my children's lives the Gates of Hell shall not Prevail in my marriage the Gates of Hell shall not Prevail and take my life this is a bold declaration these are fighting words to the devil you're telling him directly that whatever it is he had in mind that

plan is destroyed in jesus' name whatever scheme or plot he had planned for my life it's rendered useless by the blood of Jesus Christ by the word of God and by the word of my testimony I want to encourage you not not to fear Isaiah 54:17 says no weapon formed against you shall prosper and every tongue which Rises against you in judgment you shall condemn this is the heritage of the Servants of the Lord and their righteousness is from me says the Lord this is a wonderful verse that we as believer Believers need to speak

over ourselves and declare that no weapon formed against me shall prosper and every tongue which Rises against me in judgment I shall condemn this is the Heritage that I have from the Lord this passage of scripture confirms that Jesus Christ is our protector he causes that which was meant for evil to turn into good he reverses Every curse he blocks every spell and negative word spoken over your life he charts your course Jesus will take your enemies and use them as foot stol to elevate you no weapon formed against me shall prosper I say Amen

to that no weapon formed against me shall prosper I say let this be so in my life Lord no weapon formed against me shall prosper I say that I am in complete agreement with this word Lord Jesus Saints this is a promise that should be etched on our hearts the world can be a scary place without God and people people can be hurtful whether you have God God or not but with that said I simply want to uplift you to bolster your faith do not fear no weapon in the form of words no weapon in

the form of action no weapon in any form will prosper and so I encourage you to believe that God's promises are true and meant for you let us pray dear dear heavenly father the one with all authority and power I bless your holy name and praise you the Alpha and the Omega the King of Kings Lord of lords you have taken us from a state of weakness and said in your word in Luke 10: 19 behold I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and

nothing shall by any means hurt you thank you for giving us such Authority Lord we stand firm in the victory that you have given us and through the authority that you have given us we command the enemy to flee from us your word says if we resist the devil he will flee from us and so we not only res resist the enemy but we also declare confusion in his plots and schemes we destroy the devil's plans in the mighty name of Jesus Christ you are our precious father who has not only given us authority over

all the power of the enemy but you have also promised us that nothing shall by any means hurt us and as of right now with the authority given to us in your word I rebuke every plan from the enemy I rebuke every demon from hell and everything that seeks to disrupt or distract us from the call of God that is over our lives indeed the Gates of Hell shall not Prevail I confess your word to be true over our lives for it says in Deuteronomy 28:7 the Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you

to be defeated before you they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways with you on my side Lord who can stand against me a God who commands an innumerable number of angels you are the Lord of hosts a God who has never lost a battle the Creator leader of all things and therefore all power belongs to you we praise you Lord Jesus for your perfect sacrifice that now allows us to be bold in faith we declare and decree that because we are Sanctified and covered by the blood of Jesus

the kingdom of darkness has no power whatsoever over our lives I cancel the devil's plots in jesus' name and I declare that he has no hold over me I confess by The Authority that's in the name of Jesus Christ that you devil are a defeated foe you will not succeed you will not Prosper because Jesus Christ has defeated death hell and the grave my Lord has put you to shame devil and he has disarmed you to have no power over us and our families it's because Jesus Christ rose from the dead that we are walking

in Victory it's because Jesus Christ rose from the dead that we are Overcomers it's because of the Lord's strength and might it's his grace and mercy that allows me to have victory over the enemy Lord Jesus I praise you I magnify and uplift your name I Look to You King Jesus the battle is not mine but it is yours so I will call on your name at all times when everything is good I will call on you Lord and even in my anguish I will call on the name of the Lord The Great I Am

I trust you to deliver me from all trouble I bless your name and glorify you for answering my prayer in jesus' name I pray amen and amen if you are someone who is striving to be Christlike what does that look like in your day-to-day life how can we model Our Lives to be Faithful Servants of the Lord who do everything in their power to please Jesus Christ well I believe you need to pay attention to what Proverbs 1:7 says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge fools despise wisdom and instruction the fear

of God is what motivates Godly Behavior the fear of God leads one to repent and pursue a holy life the fear of God keeps you on the straight and narrow when you fear God God you do not take sin lightly because you know that God is Holy and pure and he does not tolerate unrighteousness and impurity I want to pray and agree with everyone who wants to turn their life around and even as I pray my desire is that the Holy Spirit would move and anoint this message and this prayer so that it may touch

your heart and impress the reality of Jesus Christ upon your minds my desire is that the Lord would bless this prayer so that it would not fall on deaf ears but instead may it be received by willing Hearts the Bible says in 2 Chronicles 7 verse 14 If my people who are called by my name humble the elves and pray and seek my face and turn from their Wicked Ways then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land I want you to note how God is saying to his people

humble yourselves pray and seek my face turn from your wicked ways this Saints is how you can turn your life around humble yourself meaning surrender to the Lord except that you do not know it all you cannot do life through your own strength and might you need Jesus I believe in that here in 2 Chronicles 7:14 the Bible is telling us to Humble ourselves because we need to come to a place whereby we are willing to Simply serve serve to serve Jesus Christ to serve the body of Christ and serve his kingdom the second point

is to pray and seek his face Psalm 42 verse one says as a deer pants for flowing streams so pants my soul for you oh god there needs to be a longing and a yearning for God in your heart indeed the Lord wants his children to not only pray but to pray and seek his face that means don't just come with a list of requests take time to commune with him to build a relationship with him God wants us to fellowship with him the Bible tells us to seek one thing Above All Else in Matthew

6:33 but seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added to you God wants us to seek Him First now the third point is that we should turn from our Wicked Ways our God is Holy and he has called us to be separate from the world world meaning we ought not to engage in the sinful practices of this world we ought to turn away and so should you desire to turn your life around do it the way God has prescribed in 2 chonicles 7:14 as his word says if

my people who are called by my name humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their Wicked Ways then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land humble yourself pray and seek his face turn away from your Wicked Ways now the Bible also says in 1 Peter 2: 21 to this you were called because Jesus suffered for you leaving you an example that you should follow in his steps so what does this mean for us Christ suffered and left us an example so that we should follow

in his footsteps let's take a look at what this means for the Christian man or a woman the Amplified translation for Luke 9:23 says and he was saying to them all if anyone wishes to follow me as my disciple he must deny himself set aside selfish interests and take up his cross daily expressing a willingness to endure whatever may come and follow me believing in me conforming to my example in living and if need be suffering or perhaps dying because of faith in me taking up your cross daily means you are immersed in the things

of God on a daily basis you are devoted to building a relationship with the Lord daily and what does this look like well it looks like prayer Jesus prayed often Jesus would go to find a quiet place so that he he could pray the disciples never asked Jesus to teach them how to perform Miracles or how to preach they ask Jesus how to pray because prayer is the fundamental building block for a relationship with God When you pray you're setting aside your selfish interests because you are giving the Lord your undivided attention and focus when

you pray you're humbling yourself and saying that you do not know it all further traits of a real follower of Jesus Christ are that they serve wholeheartedly all they do is to the glory of God that's their heart's desire to glorify the name of the Lord above their own First Corinthians 10:31 says therefore whether you eat or drink or whatever you do do all to the glory of God I encourage you to do all that you can in God's kingdom but do it to bring glory to him and not for yourself if you're serving serve

for the glory of Jesus Christ if you're singing Sing For the Glory of Jesus Christ if you're an usher at your local assembly then do it for the glory of Jesus Christ we need to have hearts that seek for the goodness of God to be demonstrated in our lives so in everything we do we should do it with pure intentions and godly intentions now let us pray our dear heavenly father all glory belongs to you all the honor belongs to you you we are praying at this time because we need you we need you Lord

we need your love and we need your grace help us to serve For Your Glory Master help us to take up our cross daily and forsake the pleasures of this world master let our hearts be filled with the fear of the Lord so that we can pursue you Above All Else we need you King Jesus we're looking to you for direction we're looking to you for counil we refuse to lean on our own understanding because rather we choose to lean on you father in all that we do give us an attitude of humility give us

a servant's heart may I decrease as the glory of the Lord increase increases and the name of Jesus is lifted Higher and Higher by the things I say and do your word says in Psalm 34:2 my soul shall make its boast in the Lord The Humble shall hear of it and be glad father teach me to boast in you and in you alone help me not to boast in the talents and gifts that you have given me but instead I pray that my soul boasts only in you King Jesus in our weakness we will boast

of your strength through our difficulties we will boast of your saving power even if we lack many worldly possessions we will boast in your provision father in all that we do we will continually boast only in you not in people not in my ability or resources but only in you my God your word says in First Corinthians 15:58 therefore my dear brothers and sisters stand firm let nothing move you always give yourselves fully to the work of of the Lord because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain I pray that

you would indeed help us to always be steadfast to always be immovable in you to always be abounding in the work of the Lord let everything I do be of your glory and not my own help me to do good works not to be seen by others but to please you and to bring glory to your name and to point others towards your goodness and father I ask for your forgiveness If Ever I sought after the approval of man above your approval although my sinful nature May at times crave the admiration of others the Applause

of others but teach me Lord to crucify the Flesh and humble myself father you deserve the highest praise thank you for hearing my prayer in jesus' name I pray [Music] amen the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge fools despise wisdom and [Music] instruction If my people who are called by my name humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their Wicked Ways then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land but seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things

will be added to you [Music] to this you were called because Jesus suffered for you leaving you an example that you should follow in his [Music] steps and he was saying to them all if anyone wishes to follow me as my disciple he must deny himself set aside selfish interests and take up his cross us daily expressing a willingness to endure whatever may come and follow me believing in me conforming to my example in living and if need be suffering or perhaps dying because of faith in me Luke 4 verse 17-19 says and the scroll

of the prophet Isaiah was given to him he unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to Proclaim good news to the poor he has sent me to Proclaim Liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind to set at Liberty those who are oppressed to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor now I want you to notice what Jesus Christ brings good news to the poor this is what leads us to Salvation he comes to Proclaim Liberty

to the captives this is to Pardon our sins and set us free from a guilty verdict he also comes to set at Liberty those who are oppressed this is to give us true and Lasting freedom from every unclean Spirit furthermore when Jesus Christ comes into your life he brings peace Colossians chapter 3:1 15 says and Let the Peace of Christ rule in your hearts to which indeed you were called in one body and be thankful now because of the heavy price that was was paid on the cross we don't have to labor for our own

salvation we don't have to earn it we don't have to save up for it all we need to do is to receive Jesus Christ it's to receive him in our hearts then and only then can peace rule our minds and finally I'd like to tell you that Jesus Christ brings love 1 John 4:16 says so we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us God is love and whoever abides in love abides in God and God abides in him it was love that sent Jesus Christ to the cross and

it's because of love that we have access to grace and mercy and eternal life through Jesus Christ if you have a personal relationship with Jesus you have access to all these things you have access to peace Beyond understanding you've got access to freedom and liberty when Jesus comes into your life there is no more oppression there is no more captivity there is only salvation there is life and there is freedom from sin we should be encouraged by the word of the Lord which says in Romans 8:28 and we know that all things work together for

good to those who love God to those who are the called according to his purpose trials and problems will come at one point or another we will be forced to fight battles that we'd rather not we will come across challenges that we may not want to face however we have a savior in Jesus Christ we have a miracle work in God and he will make a way when there seems to be no way humans love to be able to measure we love predictable outcomes but life doesn't always work out that way our Earthly logic doesn't

apply to every situation in our minds victory in life is all about our capability our credentials and our material things we believe that unless we look impressive to the rest of the world we have no chance of succeeding in life but God has the power to to override all of that God doesn't look for the strongest among us to demonstrate his power that would be too simple for him too predictable if God were only to use the strongest among us then we could essentially rationalize the Lord and Rob him of his glory if God were

to only use the strongest among us to do his work many of us would take God out of the equation and say well that person was always an outstanding and gifted individual the Bible in 1 Corinthians 1: 27 says but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong this means you can't predict how God will move or act what we deem to be foolish God will use to shame the wise what we deem to be weak God will use to

shame the strong his ways are not like our ways your biggest challenge can be used by the Lord to usher in your biggest breakthrough and blessing ask Joseph the worst thing that could have happened to him being betrayed by his own brother turned out to be the very thing that catapulted him into his God ordained Destiny ask the woman with the issue of blood the disease that had taken so much from her a disease that robbed her of her friends her wealth and dignity that same disease is what led her to experience the miraculous healing

power of the master our weaknesses can so often be the cause of us experiencing the power of God God has promised us in his word that all things will work together for our good if we love him that means the pain and disappointment you feel now will work together for your good and so be encouraged you may not see it now it may not make sense right now however trust the Lord to lead you trust him to make you lie down in Green Pastures trust him to lead you to Still Waters trust God to make

a way when there seems to be no way because ultimately he is in control and your life is in his Loving [Music] Hands now let us pray [Music] Heavenly Father you are the author of all things that are good everything that is pure everything that is righteous is you Lord Jesus wherever you are there is peace there is Joy there is life we invite you Lord to come into our hearts and into our homes because where your presence is there can be no captivity there can be no oppression there is only Liberty and freedom in

you thank you Father because you freely offered yourself to die on a cross All Because You Loved Us and now we praise you Lord because all authority has been given to you whatever you say will come to pass whenever you enter our lives blessings cannot help but flow from you you are the object of our affection you demand our attention and our reverence and so we bow down to you none can stand against your will Lord Jesus you are able to accomplish all that you set out to do your power and your goodness can cannot

be questioned Psalm 16:1 says you make known to me the path of life in your presence there is fullness of joy at your right hand are Pleasures forever more father we invite your presence to invade our lives your presence is what my soul Longs for your presence is the very thing that our lives need for so long this world has rejected you and turned away from you and put their faith in worthless things however we as your children stand on your word which says in Ephesians 2: 19-21 so then you are no longer strangers and

Aliens but you are fellow Cit citizens with the Saints and members of the household of God built on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Christ Jesus himself being the Cornerstone in whom the whole structure being joined together grows into a holy Temple in the Lord Lord Jesus you are the Chief Cornerstone of our lives and we worship you and choose choose to obey you alone come into our lives come into our homes come into our minds and bring restoration and peace and love in each of our hearts Lord displace every unclean thought drive out

every cloud of Darkness with your radiant light come and sweep our lives in a mighty way cast out all fear and every negative pattern of thinking at your voice demons tremble and flee because you hold all authority father move into our homes bring peace and unity into our families heal every heart that is Longing For Love Today Lord Jesus we need you there is power in your name when you speak chaos turns into order darkness turns into light evil is conquered and righteousness prevails in your presence nothing Unholy can remain Lord I pray that you

may do a new thing in our lives and even now you stand at the door of our hearts and knock so help us to answer your call and to soften our hearts may you show up in a mighty way exercise your Sovereign rule over every part of my life whatever your will is may I be a servant that is available for your use may your glory be known to us in our families and even Even in our communities awaken our spirits to tap into the wonderful power of the Holy Spirit within us father make us

aware of your presence daily and may the Holy Spirit speak to us may he minister to us may he counsel and guide us each and every day I bless your holy name and I thank you for listening to this prayer in jesus' name I pray amen and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him he unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to Proclaim good news to the poor he has sent me to to Proclaim Liberty to

the captives and recovering of sight to the blind to set at Liberty those who are oppressed to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and let the Peace of Christ rule in your hearts to which indeed you were called in one body and be thankful so we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us God is love and whoever abides in love abides in God and God abides in him and we know that all things work together for good to those who love God to those who are the called

according to his purpose [Music] so then you are no longer strangers and Aliens but you are fellow citizens with the Saints and members of the household of God built on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Christ Jesus himself being the Cornerstone in whom the whole structure being joined together grows into a holy Temple in the Lord [Music]