Father, I receive Your words and treasure Your commandments within me. Make my ears attentive to wisdom. Incline my heart to understanding. I cry out to You for godly, righteous, and true discernment, lifting my voice for understanding. Your truth and wise counsel are as silver to me, hidden treasures I long to possess. Thank You that, in finding these, I will discern the fear of the Lord and discover the knowledge of God.
You, O Lord, give wisdom; From Your mouth comes knowledge and understanding. You store up sound wisdom for the upright. You are a shield to me as I walk in integrity, guarding the paths of justice before me, and preserving my way in godliness. Grant me to discern righteousness and justice and equity and every good course. Cause Your wisdom to enter my heart as I earnestly seek You. Make knowledge of You, Your Word, will, and way, pleasant to my soul. Let discretion guard me in The Way, and understanding watch over me, delivering me from the way of evil, and from those who speak perverse things. Deliver me surely from those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness; those who ho delight in doing evil and rejoice in the perversity of evil; whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
I pray this not only for myself, Father but for my children and grandchildren to the thousandth generation, for loved ones and friends, for neighbors and the stranger on the streets with me, and most assuredly for the leaders of nations, especially for the current and the future President of these United States. In Jesus, according to Your Word, I pray, amen.
Darlene's Ponderings 