A Prayer to Start Each Morning

A guest post from Pastor Steve Nation

A few years ago, I started writing out my prayers. I don’t usually do this. I don’t do it every time I pray. I don’t even do it very often. But when I do, I find it very refreshing as a response to what God has been showing me through His Word, His people, places around me, promptings within me.

The following prayer is one that I wrote while wrestling with who I am, my fears for the day ahead, and striving to live out a right view of myself in view of being united to Christ. It’s a prayer I’ve gone back to again and again.

Father, I wake up this morning needing grace.
I know that today, I will be tempted to:
seek significance apart from you,
ground my identity not in Jesus,
feel my worth fading away,
fear people, not you.

Father, your mercies are new every morning,
your loving kindness never ends, and
great is your faithfulness.

Therefore, today I will hope in You.
Father, by your grace I am significant,
by your grace my identity is set in Jesus,
my worth is great and eternally so,
there is no one and nothing to fear.

Father, hold me in your grace today,
without it I have nothing,
with your grace I have everything,
your grace is sufficient,

And I thank You that today,
I stand in it. Amen.