Good Morning God!
1 Thessalonians 5:17 pray
without ceasing, :
With feet still hanging over the side of the bed, take a
deep breath and say; “Good morning God.” It is a great way to start the
day. Many of us feel rushed in the
morning, and the first thing on our minds after the disturbing buzzing noise of
the alarm clock is the, to do list. Then
coffee, or vise versa. If you are
already a happy early morning riser and can jump out of bed early and carve out
time to read your bible or exercise, I am impressed. My bible study comes later after work.
Taking that first moment in the morning to start the day off
right, by opening in prayer helped me. It
does not have to be a fancy worded prayer.
For me, I started simple. Some days it was just “Good morning God.” Some days I needed to add, “help me with
this day.” Other mornings it was a more thankful, and grateful prayer. Specially on bright sunny mornings,
I enjoy saying “ Thank you God, that is a beautiful morning.” The real
point here is the mind set of opening that line of communication with the Lord.
On a normal busy morning, after the lunches are made, and kids
are off to school. I’m out the door and
on my way to work, this is another moment to pray again. A regular routine started as I back out of
the garage; I started saying, “Hello Lord, please protect me as I drive.” Soon after that, I added prayer request for my family and praise
for what we were going through. This
morning car prayer changed a little bit, when I started praying for one difficult
co-worker. I was reminded by someone
that ‘you see what you are looking for.’ With that in mind I started praying
that God would help me to see the good and this person. The daily morning reminder to look for the good things, did help
me to let go of the old patterns. Over
the course of a few months the relationship improved.
These on going conversations with God are some of the ways I
pray without ceasing. I do hope you will
try it too, if you don’t already pray this way.
Try to wake up every morning and say “Good Morning God.” His word is
filled with many verses about the morning.
I started researching it, that can be for a later post.
Here is one:
Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His
compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your
faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23 (NKJV)
Rejoice always, pray
without ceasing, in everything give
thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 New King James Version (NKJV)
Verses from
BibleGateway.
(n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.biblegateway.com/
