Morning Dedication

 Good morning, 

I have shared this prayer before, and it seems like a good time to share it again. It is a wonderful prayer to make your own, adding your own form and thoughts to it. For example, I add the words "and the best day of my marriage” to the conclusion. It also lends itself to memorization. 

Love and blessings…Bob

Morning Dedication

Holy Father,

As I cross the threshold of this day, I commit myself, soul, body, affairs, friends to thy care; Watch over, keep, guide, direct, sanctify, bless me.

Incline my heart to thy ways; Mold me wholly into the image of Jesus, as a potter forms the clay; May my lips be a well-tuned harp to sound thy praise; Let those around see me living by thy Spirit, trampling the world underfoot, unconformed to lying vanities, transformed by a renewed mind, clad in the entire armor of God, shining as a never-dimmed light, showing holiness in all my doings.

Let no evil this day soil my thoughts, words, hands. May I travel miry paths with a life pure from spot or stain. In needful transactions let my affection be in Heaven, and my love soar upwards in flames of fire, my gaze fixed on unseen things, my eyes open to the emptiness, fragility, mockery of earth and its vanities.

May I view all things in the mirror of eternity, waiting for the coming of my Lord, listening for the last trumpet call, hastening unto the new heaven and earth.

Order this day all my communications according to thy wisdom, and to the gain of mutual good. Forbid that I should not be profited or made profitable.

May I speak each word as if my last word, and walk each step as my final one.

If my life should end today, let this be my best day.”

The Valley of Vision, pages 220 – 221, Arthur Bennett, editor, Banner of Truth Trust.

Note: The prayer in the book begins “Almighty God,” but I seldom address our Father that way, He is our Father, My Father (see John 17:11, 25; Romans 8:15; Galatians 4:6; and of course Matthew 6:9).