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- I make an effort to stop my mind from running through all of my affairs as it typically does.
- I try to focus on God and make a deliberate effort through meditation to invite him into my heart and mind.
- I pray for practical guidance, direction and inspiration.
- I pray for His will to be done.
- I pray my religious prayers.
I take a few deep breaths, hold them in and release them. I think of clearing my self-will and focusing on a connection to God. I gently push out thoughts that block the connection to God. I relax and don’t struggle. I let God’s purpose and intention come in. I take direction from God.
My Old Morning Prayer
Thank you God,
For good sleep, renewed life, and for a new experience today.
Thank you for keeping me clean and sober and giving me willingness.
Please grant me the willingness to be willing to be willing.
Please direct my thinking, especially that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest, or self-seeking motives.
Please clear my thinking of wrong motives so I can employ my mental faculties with assurance and so my thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane.
Lord, please guide me with your inspiration and intuitive thoughts and guide me in the decisions I must make today. Grant me knowledge of your will for me today, and the power to carry it out.
God, I pray that my thinking be more and more on the plane of inspiration, that it becomes a working part of my mind, and that I come to rely upon it. Help me remember that I am still inexperienced, that I not presume to be inspired at all times, and pay for such a presumption with absurd ideas and notions.
God, I ask especially for freedom from self-will. Show me what I can do today for the man who is still sick.
Please show me the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness and love. Show me all through the day what my next step is to be and grant me whatever I need to take care of such problems.
Amen
My Current Morning Prayer
Dear God,
thank you for this day.
Thank you for new life, new hope, new joy.
Thank you for a comfortable place to sleep, for good rest, and for protection in my dreams.
Lord, as I begin this day I offer myself to you, all my heart, mind, soul, and strength, to form me at the core of my being.
Please grant me good working mental faculties to better find the truth. Help me with correct understanding, resolute focus, objective reason, and effective memory. Help me to use my mental faculties to grow closer to you not apart. Protect me from skeptical, doubtful, self-centered and cynical thinking. Help me to grow in belief, trust, reliance, and faith.
I pray Lord that you would manage my feelings. Help me to temper my emotions, govern my instincts, and control the arousal of my senses. I pray Lord that you would keep my lower drives within the limits of their proper function, that they would not obscure my perception, distort my thinking, or impair my judgement. I pray that they would not drive me blindly or lead me to excessive desires, wrong values, or fatal obsessions. I pray that you would restore my ability to receive joy and reward from the simple, right, and natural things in life.
I open myself completely to cultivate new motives from your values. I pray that you would send you spirit and illuminate my soul. I pray for enlightenment of conscience, intuition, and imagination. Guide me with you omniscient wisdom in the decisions, choices, and judgments that I must make today. Lead me with your divine imperative in all of my endeavors, actions, and affairs. Inspire me with your creative force in the structures I must build, the problems I must solve, and the beauty I must create today.
Grant me Lord that your will be done not mine,
Amen.
My Current Morning Prayer
Dear God,
thank you for this day.
Thank you for new life, new hope, new joy.
Thank you for a comfortable place to sleep, for good rest, and for protection in my dreams.
Lord, as I begin this day I offer myself to you, all my heart, mind, soul, and strength, to form me at the core of my being.
Please grant me good working mental faculties to better find the truth. Help me with correct understanding, resolute focus, objective reason, and effective memory. Help me to use my mental faculties to grow closer to you not apart. Protect me from skeptical, doubtful, self-centered and cynical thinking. Help me to grow in belief, trust, reliance, and faith.
I pray Lord that you would manage my feelings. Help me to temper my emotions, govern my instincts, and control the arousal of my senses. I pray Lord that you would keep my lower drives within the limits of their proper function, that they would not obscure my perception, distort my thinking, or impair my judgement. I pray that they would not drive me blindly or lead me to excessive desires, wrong values, or fatal obsessions. I pray that you would restore my ability to receive joy and reward from the simple, right, and natural things in life.
I open myself completely to cultivate new motives from your values. I pray that you would send you spirit and illuminate my soul. I pray for enlightenment of conscience, intuition, and imagination. Guide me with you omniscient wisdom in the decisions, choices, and judgments that I must make today. Lead me with your divine imperative in all of my endeavors, actions, and affairs. Inspire me with your creative force in the structures I must build, the problems I must solve, and the beauty I must create today.
Grant me Lord that your will be done not mine,
Amen.
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