Father,

We greet this day, fully taking-in the blessing of your light. My your love permeate all of our layers and fill us to full capacity, giving us strength, illuminating wisdom, casting out shadows and igniting our words. We invite you into all of our interactions today. May they be enriched and enlivened with your holy light. As we step forward in the battle of these days, we are fortified by your will, “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” (Ephesians)

Today we invite you into our vision Father, so that we may see ourselves in a new way. To forgive and accept every bit of ourselves because we know you love us to the very core of our being. “So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians) We realize, Father, that if you love us so completely, no matter what state we’re in, then we can love, forgive and accept ourselves too.

As we prepare ourselves for the battle of this day, we know the first step in defeating the darkness begins with mastering ourselves so that we may walk anywhere unencumbered, with our light intact. Just as it says in Psalm 84 “For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.” And so we shall. Touch us oh Lord and cast out any doubt, any fear, any sense of unworthiness, because we know that one breath from you corrects and restores entire worlds.

Let our lives today be filled with the promise of new life and a better world.

Let it be so,

In Jesus name we pray,

Amen.