His Spirit fills me and I pray:
Thank you Lord for saving me and making me Your own.
You’re awesome and You are so full of grace.
Forgive me any sinful way, I bow my heart to You.
Mold me as an instrument of use for You today (Romans 6:13).
May your love constrain me to be bold to share the ways of Jesus.
Help me love, forgive and bless each one I come across.
[Using the Bible, Amplified version’s words, plus my wording:]
Today in You, for You, for others I will be
…kind and helpful, tender-hearted [compassionate, understanding],
forgiving others [readily and freely] (Ephesians 4: v32)
I will use words …as is good for building up others,
according to the need and the occasion,
so that it will be a blessing to those who hear me. (Ephesians 4: v29)
Today, in You, (Ephesians 4: v30)
I will not …let unwholesome [foul, profane, worthless, vulgar] words ever come out of my mouth.
I will not …grieve the Holy Spirit of God [but seek to please Him],
by whom I was sealed and marked [branded as God’s own]
for the day of redemption
[the final deliverance from the consequences of sin].
Today, in You, (Ephesians 4: v31)
I will put away from me – all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor [perpetual animosity, resentment, strife, fault-finding] and slander, along with every kind of malice [all spitefulness, verbal abuse, malevolence].
Today, in You, (Ephesians 4: v32)
I will be kind and helpful to others, tender-hearted [compassionate, understanding], forgiving others [readily and freely], just as God in Christ also forgave me.
FOR MORE:
Acts 9:15
But the Lord said to him,
“Go,
for this man is
a [deliberately] chosen instrument
of Mine,
to bear My name
before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel;
Romans 6:13
Do not go on offering
members of your body
to sin
as instruments of wickedness.
But offer yourselves to God
[in a decisive act]
as those alive
[raised] from the dead
[to a new life],
and your members
[all of your abilities
—sanctified, set apart]
as instruments of righteousness [yielded] to God.
Romans 15:18
For I will not [even] presume to speak of anything
except what Christ has done through me
[as an instrument in His hands],
resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles
[to the gospel], by word and deed
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