February 9, 2017 God, I PRAISE you for taking my siblings from a harmful environment and putting them in a safe and loving family. What a beautiful picture of gospel redemption! God, I ASK for your protection over my siblings. Wherever they go, whether up to the heavens or down to the depths, may your hand guide them. I ASK that the darkness will not cover them but that their sin would be exposed, for darkness is as light to you and you uncover everything whether good or evil. O LORD may they desire what is good! May they think about what is honorable, what is pure, what is lovely, what is just, what is excellent, and what is worth of praise. May they practice these things, so that peace will reign in them. Create in them a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within them. Do not cast them from your presence. Give the, fullness of joy in your salvation alone. For, how can a youth keep his way pure other than guarding it according to your word? May they hide your word in...
February 5, 2017 God, I PRAISE you because you left your people with peace and fullness of joy. You chose me, and this was not from any righteousness of my own. Rather, before the foundation of the world you saw me and decided you would adopt me into your family. You chose me out of the world. God, I REPENT of the ways I have thought about myself... that I could work my way into your grace, or somehow fall away from it. I REPENT of behaving as if your power at work within me is not strong enough to conquer the world and the evil one who lives in it. God, I ASK for you to demolish every argument and every opinion that creeps into my mind and take captive every thought and make it obedient to your truth. If there is any thought I have of myself that is not true, destroy it. I ASK that you would give me eyes that would see me how you see me- blameless, clothed in white, a conqueror, made perfect in weakness, a possessor of every good thing, chosen and formed in secret. YES, ...