Before My Feet Hit the Floor!

"Let me hear in the morning of Your steadfast love, for in You I trust.  Make me know the way I should go, for to You I lift up my soul." (Psalm 143:8 ESV)  Remind me of Your love.  I will trust You.  With a hundred directions to go, where do You want me today? I am Yours. This morning. Every morning.

I have the habit of praying before my feet hit the floor to a new day.  It's not usually fancy or long (my mind is waking), but it's sincere and real.  

I pray for His love to fill me so that I can love others with genuine Christ-like love.  That simple prayer says quite a lot actually, because...
"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." (1 Cor. 13:4-7 ESV)
(if you've heard that verse a thousand times-read it again. slower.)

I also pray that I would "keep in step with the Spirit".  There's a lot packed into those words as well...
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.  If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit."  
(Gal. 5:22-23, 25 ESV)

In this simple act of prayer, I am recognizing my complete dependence on Him.  Let me tell you...I DO NEED HIM!  And He is real.  He is not "positive thinking", or an imaginary friend that somehow encourages me.  He is very much alive, and I am so thankful that I am made alive in Him...in Jesus.

(Photo by mack2happy)