March 26, 2012 Devotional

Today's Challenge: 

Find and pray with an accountability partner. As God reveals more opportunities for you to share the Gospel, temptation will increase to distract you. Pray for continued courage, strength, and sensitivity. It's also important to find a friend to pray for you, stir you up, and encourage you. 

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. 

Hebrews 10:24

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 

Today's Prayer:  

God, my help and assistance, who is just and merciful, and who hears the supplications of your people; look down upon me, a miserable sinner. Have mercy upon me; deliver me from all the troubles and tribulations of life. Deal not with me after my sins, I pray, but according to your measureless mercy, for I am the work of your hands, and you know my weakness.

Grant me, I beseech you, your divine helping grace. Endow me with patience and strength to endure my tribulations with complete submission to your will. You know my misery and suffering. I flee to you, my only hope and refuge, for relief and comfort, trusting to your infinite love and compassion; that in due time, you will deliver me from all the trials of this life and turn my distress into comfort. I rejoice in your mercy. I exalt and praise your holy name, oh Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: now and forever.

Now, oh Lord, I pray that you may lift up the light of your countenance upon me, and give me peace; in my going out and in my coming in; in my sitting down and my rising up; in my work and in my play; in my joy and in my sorrow, in my laughter and in my tears; until that day comes which is without dawn and without dark.

Amen.