Father, we thank You for this new day…
for this time we share with You and those You have created for us to be among…
our loved ones, close friends and casual ones, strangers, all of who are the work of Your hands, crafted uniquely and meant for good. May we have eyes and ears Father… Your purpose is goodness.
Thank You Father, for food and drink to nourish our bodies and for the food and drink of Your Living Word, so that our spirits might be nourished and healthy as well.
Thank You Father for Your continuing, ongoing forgiveness in our faltering and repentance… as we continue, and are ongoing, in our efforts to be continually transformed into Your image.
Continue Father…please…Your Holy Spirit guiding us that we might represent You Father… that we might “image” You… well… Father… that it might be our heart’s desire to do so… that doing so might be its own reward for us.
Bless us and keep us Father… “Protect” us “from the Evil one” Father.
“May” your “favor”… Oh our “God… be on us,
Prosper for us all the work that we do-
Yes, prosper the work we do.”
Humbly Father, and with great longing for You near…
“every hour” Father… we “need You… Oh bless us now”… dear Savior… we come… to You”… and pray…
in Yeshua’s name…
Amen.
John 17:15 CJB
Psalm 90:17 CJB
“I Need You Every Hour” by Annie Sherwood Hawks
Personal account of the history of the song:
of “I Need Thee Every Hour”: Hawks writes, “One day as a young wife and mother of 37 years of age, I was busy with my regular household tasks during a bright June morning [in 1872]. Suddenly, I became so filled with the sense of nearness to the Master that, wondering how one could live without Him, either in joy or pain, these words were ushered into my mind, the thought at once taking full possession of me — ‘I Need Thee Every Hour. . . .’”
My thought:
Living with a continual awareness of God’s presence might be a form of being continually in prayer.
“Personal account” taken from on line article:
“’History of Hymns: “I Need Thee Every Hour”’
By Michael Hawn
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