Father, I give you thanks and I bless you once again on this day, for you have called us out of darkness into your marvellous light, and made us a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people (1 Peter 2:9).
I ask you to lead us, your people, and to give us the strength to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. Help us by your Holy Spirit to have our conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against us as evildoers, they may by our good works, which they shall behold, glorify you in the day of visitation (1 Peter 2:11-12).
Give us the strength to escape the corruption that is in the world through lust, so that, giving all diligence, we may add to our faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity (2 Peter 1:4-7).
Grant us, according to the riches of your glory, to be strengthened with might by your Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in our hearts by faith; that we, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that we might be filled with all the fulness of God (Ephesians 3:16-19).
Comfort our hearts, that we may be knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, which is Christ, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge (Colossians 2:2-3).
Enlighten the eyes of our understanding, that we may know what is the hope of your calling, and what the riches of the glory of your inheritance in us, whom you have sanctified (Ephesians 1:18).
In every circumstance, comfort our hearts, and stablish us in every good word and work (2 Thessalonians 2:17). May your grace and peace be multiplied unto us through the knowledge of you (2 Peter 1:2). Give us your peace always, by all means, in every circumstance; a peace that passeth all understanding, so that our hearts and minds may be kept through Christ Jesus (2 Thessalonians 3:16, Philippians 4:7).
Stablish us and keep us from evil (2 Thessalonians 3:3). Count us worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of your goodness, and the work of faith with power: that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in us, and we in him (2 Thessalonians 1:11-12).
Sanctify us wholly, so that our whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus (1 Thessalonians 5:23).
Heavenly Father, may your presence grow ever stronger among us, and may your love be in our midst, to stablish our hearts unblameable in holiness at the coming of the Lord Jesus (1 Thessalonians 3:13).
Fill us with the knowledge of your will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, that we might walk worthy of you unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to your glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness (Colossians 1:9-11).
I give you thanks, for you shall supply all our need according to your riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19). I also believe that you, who have begun this good work in us, will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ (Philippians 1:6).
When we open our mouths, grant that we may make known boldly and freely the mystery of the gospel (Ephesians 6:19). Fill us with your Spirit, and confirm your Word through us with miracles, signs and wonders (Mark 16:20). Help us to stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel (Philippians 1:27).
Lead us also to be clothed at all times with the whole armour of God, that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places (Ephesians 6:11-12).
May our love abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment, that we may approve things that are excellent, that we may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God (Philippians 1:9-11). Lead us to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus (Romans 15:5). Make us strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 2:1).
Keep us in the faith, so that we are not shaken by the various trials that will come, but strengthen us in the power of your might (Ephesians 6:10). For we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul (Hebrews 10:39).
That is why we ask you to help us hold fast the faith we profess (Hebrews 4:14). Perfect that which is lacking in our faith and make it complete for the day of the Lord (1 Thessalonians 3:10). Give us the faith that comes from you, so that we may be fully rooted and grounded in Christ (Mark 11:22).
I believe, Lord, that you who predestinated me, called me and justified me will also glorify me on the day of Christ's coming (Romans 8:30). We shall then put on, once and for all, an incorruptible body and dwell in your glory forever (1 Corinthians 15:52). It is in this glorious hope that I abide, looking unto you, Lord, the author and finisher of our faith (Colossians 1:27). Keep us in you, so that we do not go astray and are not drawn away by the lusts of this world. As you kept your disciples, keep us also until the appointed time, when we shall be with you. May all the glory return to you, the Almighty, the Faithful and True, for ever and ever.
Amen!
