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BLE(E)SS Prayer 

Dear Father, Your intention is for the benefit of people, that they might flourish as they experience all the goodness of Your creation and design. We pray for every aspect of life for them.

Body: May their bodies be strong and in good health so that they might serve You with vigor and vitality as You deserve. Let their well-being be a source of praise and gratitude for Your kindness.

Labor: Give them tasks that You have created them for. Let them find fulfillment, joy, and effectiveness in the jobs You place before them. Show them how to bring honor to You in how they work.

Economics: Provide for their needs with an abundance that will enable them to give generously to others who are in need. Let them experience the joy of giving. May Your financial blessing on their lives be a cause for praise and appreciation of Your goodness.

(E)motions: Let them feel what You feel. Tune their hearts to Your own. Cause them to rejoice in You and to bring joy to Your heart. Allow them to hurt when Your will is abrogated. Give them the illuminating experience of sharing Your disposition toward all things.

Social: Repair any breach in their relationships. May their connections with other people bring life rather than grief. Let their social interactions draw others to You and encourage them to know and love You more deeply.  

Spiritual: Grant them lives that are guided and controlled by Your Spirit. May the strength of their spiritual lives be more than sufficient to the degree that they are overcomers in every aspect of life. May their spiritual affluence overflow to others, beckoning them to You. Prepare them for an eternity with You.

Knowing God: Nature, Purposes, Will, Ways, Thoughts, Heart, Desires

I want to know You. Life is empty and meaningless without You. Life is full and fulfilling in Your presence.  

Help me comprehend Your nature. I cannot fathom the infinite, so help me wonder at it. Let me marvel at Your perfection. Help me see You as the measure of all things, the standard by which all things are to be judged and find their meaning.

Help me grasp Your purposes. I cannot imagine Your worthiness, so cause me to understand the multitude of ways by which You make it known. Let me trace Your path as You make Your glory known so I might more effectively reflect and proclaim it.

Enable me to discern Your will for me in the situations I encounter and the settings where You place me. Shape my desires so that they conform to Your own. Let me respond in ways that are in concord with Your intentions, always laboring to see Your will done on earth as it is in heaven.

Teach me Your ways so that I consistently mirror Your character and pursue Your ends in appropriate ways. Let me not miss any turn in the path due to taking my eyes off of You. Let me perceive Your working around me even when it is in unexpected ways.

Reveal Your thoughts to me. I want not only to see Your activity but to comprehend Your thinking so that I might appreciate You more deeply. Deepen my own thinking by exposing me to Yours. Let me begin to anticipate Your work as I begin to trace Your mind. 

Cause me to plumb the depths of Your passion for Your glory to be perceived, reflected, and proclaimed through creation, and especially through mankind. Let my heart be shaped by Yours. Let my own emotions be framed by Yours so that I might respond as You would.

Enable me to envision Your desires so that I might be captivated by what delights You. Let me not pursue lesser things than Your intentions. I want my desires to be wholly determined by Yours, for as the loving Creator You know what is best.