10 Days of Comforting PrayerSample

Day 3: The Joy of the Lord

How can you cultivate the joy of the Lord in your life, despite the challenges life brings? What steps can you take to deepen your relationship with God, allowing His joy to guide your daily decisions?

After reading Nehemiah 8:10, pray about these things as follows:

• First, praise the Lord for being your Comforter, your Provider, your Joy, and your refreshment.
• Praise Him for being an abundant, indulgent, good, gracious, kind, and generous Heavenly Father who loves to shower you with good things and fill your life with joy and celebration.
• Thank Him for His joy, and ask Him to fill you up once again with that joy.
• Thank Him for giving you strength today, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.
• Ask the Father to help you fix your mind on His presence every day, for in the presence of God is fullness of joy. (See Psalm 16:11.)
• Ask Him to help you abide in Jesus.
• Thank Him that He is with you always, even to the end of the world. He will never leave you nor forsake you! (See Matthew 28:20.)
• Invite God's Holy Spirit to bear more of His fruit in your life than ever before, especially the fruit of joy.

Friend, the joy of the Lord is your strength.

May you be filled with our Father's own joy today as you delight in your relationship with Jesus.