Prayer To Start The Day

I just want to share with you how I start my day – as I open my eyes and have my first conscious thoughts, I just yield all of myself to the Lord. I surrender every part of myself to Him - slowly and deliberately. I am submitting this so that you can consider giving yourself to the Lord in a similar way:

• Father I give You my mind – I want to think Your thoughts and have the mind of Christ today

Phil. 2:5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus

• Father I give You my ears – I want to hear Your voice and obey You in every detail. I will follow You today

John 10:27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

• Father I give You my eyes – I want to see Your glory and be changed into your image throughout every moment

John 17:24 Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

2 Cor. 3:18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

• Father I give You my tongue – I want to taste and see that You are good so that I can speak and sing of Your wonders at every opportunity

Ps. 34:8 Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!

• Father I give You my heart – I want to know You more and more and love Your presence above all things

Ps. 37:4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.

• Father I give You my hands – I want to touch You by faith and minister Your grace and power to this broken world

Matt. 14:36 and begged Him that they might only touch the hem of His garment. And as many as touched it were made perfectly well.

Acts 6:8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and signs among the people.

• Father I give You my feet – I want to walk in Your righteous paths and follow wherever You lead

Ps. 23:3 He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name's sake.

Matt. 16:24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

Lord - make me innocent of evil; deaf, blind, and mute to the world; broken and soft-hearted like David, kind and compassionate to others, and swift to run after You.

I use this prayer to prepare for meditation times. My silly brain is like a 2 year-old and wanders off when I am trying to focus on the Lord. Praying through these things can slow everything down and bring focus. Some people call this "centering" - a similar concept to "focusing."