We have heard your cry for a new day and for favor, and we join you in bringing it before the throne of grace through the Lord Jesus Christ, whose merits are a sweet savor in the nostrils of the Most High.
There is no attribute more comforting than Divine Sovereignty, and there is no favor worth having except that which flows from Divine Grace. It is not luck that governs the children of God, but the hand of a generous Lawgiver who has promised to display His own perfections in providing for His people. When the Lord turns in a way of grace to His people, He comes with all His soul most heartily to display His favor and His love toward the objects of His choice, and that favor is found only in Christ, by whose blood we are accepted.
We pray for you in this way. May the Lord grant you His presence, for the Divine Presence is the one hope of the people of God. Wherever you are, if you are but under the shadow of that cloud and within the radius of that bright pillar of fire, you are at home with Him. May He go before you as a shield and clear the way, thrusting out enemies and fears before you, while you follow where He leads in obedience to His Word.
We ask the Father, in the name of Jesus, to provide for your daily needs according to His wisdom. For a place to live, for needful and helpful communication by phone, for strength of backbone and for renewal of energy and a cheerful mind, we look to Him who has delivered His people out of deep waters, not always by miracle as men count miracles, but by remarkable preservations and interpositions full of wonder. He who remembered Joseph in the dungeon and Hannah in her sorrow is able to exalt the low tree and make the dry tree to flourish by the dew of heaven.
For your family and for the creatures entrusted to your care, we ask the Lord's keeping. We do not claim for ourselves that we shall never taste physical death, for it is appointed unto men once to die, but we do rejoice that whosoever believeth in Christ hath everlasting life, and that He hath delivered our souls from death and our feet from falling. In Christ, death has lost its sting, and whether we live or die we are the Lord's. May that truth quiet your fears and guard your home in peace, shutting out the babbling tongues and disturbances of this world, so that you may dwell in quiet under His care.
We pray also that you may be kept from all that would intrude upon the peace of your home and mind, and that you may find your rest not in any charm or incantation, but in the finished work of Christ. The blood of Jesus is not a formula to be repeated, but the holy, purely offered merit of the Redeemer by which we are reconciled to God, cleansed from sin, and made accepted in the Beloved. Trust wholly in that blood, and in that righteousness alone for salvation.
May the Lord grant you today a positive and steadfast spirit, not from mere resolve, but as the fruit of His Spirit working in you. May trials, if they come, be sanctified to your highest good, strengthening and improving you by Divine Grace, and may you know that all things are in the hand of Him who does all things well.
We commend you to Him who is able to keep you, praying that you may walk this new day in forgiveness, freedom, and favor through Jesus Christ our Lord, and that your entrance into the joy of your Lord shall be bestowed upon you according to the Divine Grace which is in Christ Jesus. Amen.