Take all the tangled threads.
J. R. Miller. Family prayers. Heavenly
Father, we would be strong for this new day, and we wait upon
you to renew our strength. We need spiritual strength for
the day that is before us. We shall have burdens to carry,
and battles to fight, and trials to endure, and duties to perform,
and temptations to conquer, and conflicts with the evil world.
We need strength for all these experiences. You alone can give
us what we need. You are our refuge and our strength,
a very present help in times of trouble. You have promised
to be with us and to strengthen us. You have said that as our
days are, so shall our strength be, and that your grace is sufficient
for us. We accept these assurances, believing
that we shall obtain help from you for every duty and every
struggle this day. We would lean our weakness on
your strength, our ignorance on your wisdom, our trembling
insecurity on your unchangeableness. Restrain us from all excess of
whatever kind, from all extravagance of speech, from all foolish vanity,
from inordinate affection and emotion. Make us thoughtful,
serious, solemn, watchful, and prayerful. May we be stronger
in faith. more earnest in purpose, more
holy in thought and feeling, because of our communion with
you this day, we ask you for grace to perform our to perform
our allotted tasks with diligence, to guide our affairs with discretion,
to do all things whatever we do in the name of the Lord Jesus,
and in all our ways to acknowledge You, order our steps in Your
Word, and let not any iniquity have dominion over us. Take all
the tangled threads of our lives into Your own hand, and unravel
them, weaving them into a web of beauty. Those who wait on
the LORD shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings
like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk
and not faint. – Isaiah 40, 31