Four Prayers For 2010
Typically I think through different resolutions or goals that I would like to accomplish for the new year, but since I’m still working on two of my 2009 resolutions – I’m going to offer four prayers for 2010 from Proverbs 4:23-27. During the month of January, I’m walking through the book of Proverbs. These prayers come from my time with Solomon, and others, as they speak God’s word to us.
Verse 23 challenges us to “keep your heart with all vigilance” because “for from it flows the springs of life.” The idea of keeping your heart focuses on protecting oneself from those things that would corrupt the well spring of life that flows through every individual believer and/or church. So here are four very short prayers that I’m praying for myself and for River Hills today:
1) God protect my thoughts from things that would corrupt me. Protect the mindset and worldview of the body of River Hills Church, and may we feast up Paul’s admonishment found in Philippians 4:8.
2) Protect my eyes from the things that would nullify a testimony of a changed life through Christ. May the grace in which I stand be radiance of the glory of Jesus. May the scales of injustice fall from the eyes of our body at River Hills, and may we recognize the hurting and hurtful and seek to bring truth and people together. May we live out Proverbs 4:25.
3) Season my speech with the talk of godliness, and may the tongue of our church be marinated in the voice of truth. Keep us in Proverbs 4:23. May we put unwholesome talk behind us.
4) Keep our paths straight. May your vision, your direction and your guidance be the fuel of our soul, and may the truth of Scripture be the compass for our hearts. Remind us of Proverbs 4:27 – and may we take the next step – although it be a shadowed step – in faithfulness and confidence in Your providence.
May this come to pass due to your great will and your renown – sola christo. Amen.