Silas
Beloved of All
Your prayer is deeply encouraging because it is centered on what God has already provided through Jesus and your desire to walk in it with wisdom and faithfulness.
Thank you for giving thanks for the blood of Jesus that cleanses the conscience from dead works so you can serve the living God. That is the foundation for everything else you are asking. Because Jesus died and rose and is now your sympathetic High Priest forever, you can come with confidence to the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace for help in time of need. You described it well as receiving freely, like a branch receiving life from the vine. As you abide in Christ, the life flows naturally and fruit follows, and that fruit brings glory to the Father.
Your desire for wisdom to walk in a worthy manner and to set right priorities is exactly what God invites you to seek. Wisdom is the principal thing, so the call of Scripture is to get wisdom and with all your getting to get understanding. To love wisdom and to keep it close is to be preserved and kept. When wisdom enters the heart and knowledge becomes pleasant to the soul, discretion will preserve you and understanding will keep you. It will deliver you from the way of the evil person and from perverse speech, from those who leave upright paths to walk in darkness and who delight in what is crooked.
The beginning of that wisdom is the fear of the Lord, and to fear the Lord is to hate evil. That includes pride and arrogance and every perverse way. The instruction is simple and practical. Do not be wise in your own eyes, fear the Lord and depart from evil. Put away the perverse mouth and let your eyes look straight ahead. Ponder the path of your feet and let all your ways be established. Do not turn to the right or to the left, but remove your foot from evil. Whoever listens to the Lord in this way will dwell safely and be quiet from the fear of evil, and the Lord Himself will direct the paths.
This also means honoring the Lord with your substance and with the firstfruits of all your increase, tending with faithfulness the vineyard and garden God has entrusted to you, caring for your own responsibilities before reaching beyond them. Wisdom is a defense and it gives life to those who have it, and it brings profit to all of life under the sun.
You also asked for clarity and order, for happy grace in daily duties, for fellowship with God and with others, and for protection from temptation and evil. God does not solicit anyone to evil. Temptation often whispers that you can have fulfillment immediately if you will just step off the path God has set, suggesting that God is withholding something good from you. To recognize that voice and to stay on the patient path of obedience is wisdom. God in His own will brought you forth by the word of truth to be a new creation in Christ, and He is able to keep you, to give you understanding of His Word from cover to cover, to teach you accurately so you do not misrepresent Him, and to strengthen you to know the dimensions of Christ's love.
I join you in praying that the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, will help you know God better and understand the Scriptures, that your teaching would flow from love out of a pure heart and a sincere faith and a conscience that is clear before God, that you would have simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ, and that your first love would be renewed as you draw near to God and He draws near to you.
May the Lord grant you clarity where there is confusion, for He is a God of order and not of confusion, and may He give you wisdom and power to make and accomplish the plans that are truly needed, bearing fruit as you ask according to His will and remain in Him. May He guard your fellowship with Him and with your teams, family, friends, and those who do not yet know Him, and may He keep you from stumbling blocks, from wrongdoing, from fear and lies, and from every deception, delivering you from the evil one.
May He send His help and protection as you proclaim repentance and forgiveness in Jesus' name, trusting in Jesus alone as the one Mediator between God and humanity, your Priest forever, that many would believe and have assurance of eternal life and that your joy in forgiveness would be restored and overflow to others.
In the name of Jesus I ask for mercy, grace, wisdom, and keeping for you in this time of need.
Thank you for giving thanks for the blood of Jesus that cleanses the conscience from dead works so you can serve the living God. That is the foundation for everything else you are asking. Because Jesus died and rose and is now your sympathetic High Priest forever, you can come with confidence to the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace for help in time of need. You described it well as receiving freely, like a branch receiving life from the vine. As you abide in Christ, the life flows naturally and fruit follows, and that fruit brings glory to the Father.
Your desire for wisdom to walk in a worthy manner and to set right priorities is exactly what God invites you to seek. Wisdom is the principal thing, so the call of Scripture is to get wisdom and with all your getting to get understanding. To love wisdom and to keep it close is to be preserved and kept. When wisdom enters the heart and knowledge becomes pleasant to the soul, discretion will preserve you and understanding will keep you. It will deliver you from the way of the evil person and from perverse speech, from those who leave upright paths to walk in darkness and who delight in what is crooked.
The beginning of that wisdom is the fear of the Lord, and to fear the Lord is to hate evil. That includes pride and arrogance and every perverse way. The instruction is simple and practical. Do not be wise in your own eyes, fear the Lord and depart from evil. Put away the perverse mouth and let your eyes look straight ahead. Ponder the path of your feet and let all your ways be established. Do not turn to the right or to the left, but remove your foot from evil. Whoever listens to the Lord in this way will dwell safely and be quiet from the fear of evil, and the Lord Himself will direct the paths.
This also means honoring the Lord with your substance and with the firstfruits of all your increase, tending with faithfulness the vineyard and garden God has entrusted to you, caring for your own responsibilities before reaching beyond them. Wisdom is a defense and it gives life to those who have it, and it brings profit to all of life under the sun.
You also asked for clarity and order, for happy grace in daily duties, for fellowship with God and with others, and for protection from temptation and evil. God does not solicit anyone to evil. Temptation often whispers that you can have fulfillment immediately if you will just step off the path God has set, suggesting that God is withholding something good from you. To recognize that voice and to stay on the patient path of obedience is wisdom. God in His own will brought you forth by the word of truth to be a new creation in Christ, and He is able to keep you, to give you understanding of His Word from cover to cover, to teach you accurately so you do not misrepresent Him, and to strengthen you to know the dimensions of Christ's love.
I join you in praying that the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, will help you know God better and understand the Scriptures, that your teaching would flow from love out of a pure heart and a sincere faith and a conscience that is clear before God, that you would have simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ, and that your first love would be renewed as you draw near to God and He draws near to you.
May the Lord grant you clarity where there is confusion, for He is a God of order and not of confusion, and may He give you wisdom and power to make and accomplish the plans that are truly needed, bearing fruit as you ask according to His will and remain in Him. May He guard your fellowship with Him and with your teams, family, friends, and those who do not yet know Him, and may He keep you from stumbling blocks, from wrongdoing, from fear and lies, and from every deception, delivering you from the evil one.
May He send His help and protection as you proclaim repentance and forgiveness in Jesus' name, trusting in Jesus alone as the one Mediator between God and humanity, your Priest forever, that many would believe and have assurance of eternal life and that your joy in forgiveness would be restored and overflow to others.
In the name of Jesus I ask for mercy, grace, wisdom, and keeping for you in this time of need.
