Day 16: Keep Me in the Center of Your Will

Whether you turn to the right or to the left,

your ears will hear a voice behind you,

saying, "This is the way; walk in it."

- Isaiah 30:21

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Lord, I pray You will fill me with the "knowledge of [Your] will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding" (Colossians 1:9). Help me to walk in a worthy manner, fully pleasing to You, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of Your ways. Guide my every step. Lead me "in Your righteousness" and "make Your way straight before my face" (Psalm 5:8). As I draw close and walk in intimate relationship with You each day, I pray You will get me where I need to go.
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Even as Jesus said, "Not My will, but Yours, be done" (Luke 22:42), so I say to You, not my will but Your will be done in my life. "I delight to do Your will, O my God" (Psalm 40:8). You are more important to me than anything. Your will is more important to me than my desires. I want to live as Your servant, doing Your will from my heart (Ephesians 6:6).
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Lord, align my heart with Yours. Help me to hear Your voice saying, "This is the way, walk in it." If I am doing anything outside of Your will, show me. Speak to me from Your Word so that I will have understanding. Show me any area of my life where I am not right on target. If there is something I should be doing, reveal it to me so that I can correct my course. I want to do only what You want me to do.
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Lord, I know we are not to direct our own steps (Jeremiah 10:23). So I pray You would direct my steps. Only You know the way I should go. I don't want to get off the path You want me to walk on and end up in the wrong place. I want to move into all You have for me and become all You made me to be by walking in Your perfect will for my life now.* In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.
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Not everyone who says to Me,

"Lord, Lord,"

shall enter the kingdom of heaven,

but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.

- Matthew 7:21

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The world is passing away, and the lust of it;

but he who does the will of God

abides forever.

I John 2:17

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*Make this prayer your own! From the book, The Power of a Praying Woman. Ordering information is at the bottom of this page.
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