Prayer in the Morning

Psalm 143:8 “Cause me to hear Your loving-kindness in the morning, for in You do I trust; Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to You.”

I read lately that this is a beautiful and meaningful prayer with which to start the day, and one that God must delight to answer. It is very simple, with two requests and two declarations, yet it can reach the very heart of God. Because we trust implicitly in His Word, we hear Him speak through it as we read it at the beginning of the day. And as we hear Him speak, we rejoice again in His loving-kindness, especially in saving our souls and guiding our ways. Then we are emboldened once again to lift up our very souls (our mind. Will and emotions) to Him (not just our voices!) and ask Him for clear guidance in the way in which we should walk today.

Psalm 143:10 “Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God; Your Spirit is

good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.”

The psalmist also prays, and so should we, for God to teach us. God will “cause us to know the way wherein we should walk” by the Holy Spirit if we sincerely desire to know and to follow His will and to be led in the paths of righteousness. He will never lead us, of course, in any path contrary to His revealed Word in the Holy Scriptures of the Bible. Psalm 119:105 proclaims “Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path”. But when He is given all priority in our lives, when we love, study and obey His holy Word, and when we sincerely call on Him for daily guidance in His will and way, He will surely answer, because Proverbs 3:6 confirms the “In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths”.

1 John 5:14-15 says, “Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him”, if our heart’s desire is aligned with God’s heart desire, when our goals are His goals and Lord God’s glory is our chief end. The Webster’s dictionary definition of the word “lord” is: A master; a person possessing supreme power and authority; a ruler; a governor. In scripture, the Supreme Being; Jehovah God. The word is applied to Christ, and to the Holy Spirit. May your morning prayer be to the praise the Lord.

Blessings.