My Lord, you dissolve the boundaries of my resistance and make your home in my heart.  I laud you because with you my pulse beats with joy.  Through the shadows, you illuminate my life and lead me step by step up the mountain. Then I fly, soaring through the universe. There is nowhere that I can go that you are not there.  And so I worship you.

Help me, Lord, keep loving people and not notice their offensive words. If I could train myself to not notice, life would be better for both them and me.

I thank you, God, for doing so much for so long to save me and make it possible for me live forever with you. You love me beyond measure despite my sins. You forgive me though I keep repeating the same sins over and over.  You show me how to forgive others by your infinite example. Mercy in its supremacy can only come from you. Ah, my Lord, you are the epitome of love.  You surround me with your patience and peace. Your perfect peace.

I adore you, my Lord. You are life and light and love. You are the path, the road, the Way. You give direction to my life that would otherwise have no meaning. You guide me when I do not know what to do. I long to live with you where you are. How much longer must I wait? Even as I wait, I will proclaim you to people, nations, the world. You are the one and only God. You are the only light, life giver, and soul of the universe. And of my heart.

Lord, I continue to be selfish. I continue to spend time with friends instead of looking outward to others who are so lonely, but smile and pretend they are not.

Thank you, God, for loving me and giving life, for you are love and you are life.  You watch over me every day as a mother or father does for their little helpless child. Why do you love me so? I reject you with my sins, yet you love me still.  Thank you for materializing as Jesus so we could watch your example of living, and so we could see, hear and touch God. What an example. While on earth, you taught extreme love while your enemies taught extreme intolerance. You never backed down. For me, you never backed down. I worship you.

I praise you, Lord God, from the mountain peaks, the lowest valleys, and the depths of the earth.  I praise you in my heart and spirit, my mind and body. You made the universe for my pleasure. You are so good. You guide me and watch me and keep turning me around whenever I go the wrong way. You are everywhere at all times. I cannot escape you. I do not want to escape you. You keep my heart alive.

Ah, thank you, for loving me, and thank you, my Lord, for saving my soul. Such love, even when I insult you with my sins.  You are so good to me and I do not deserve it. You surround me with love like a wall, protecting me from Satan as long as I do not go beyond the wall.  Satan wants to punish me with his accusations. You want to save me with your mercy. With you, my garments are white and I am crowned with your glory ~ not mine but yours.

Forgive me for neglecting people I meet in a group. I talk only to my friends when I should be talking to those standing to the side who no one is talking to. I have been in their shoes sometimes. Make me remember those times and look for the neglected.

The highest praise belongs to you alone, Jehovah of the universe, both that which is seen and unseen.  I praise you, God of the NAME, God the I AM. You are not just existence. You know me by my name. You run after me when I run away from you and call my name. You love me so. If you did not love, you could not exist. If you were not life, you could not exist. Oh, how I long to be with you as your bride forever.

I am just a weak sinner. I find it hard to forgive sometimes and have to remind myself that you forgive me only as I do others.  Satan wants me to become an accuser like him. Satan, get away from me!

I whisper thank you in my heart for your Word ~ your heart poured out. My puny thanks swells, rushes to you, and bursts forth in your throne room.  Thank you, Jesus, for being my perfect sacrifice. You had to materialize so you could be my substitute. You went through what you did not have to do, even while I was offending you with my sins. Thank you for giving life, and re-giving life over and over. You cannot stop because you are God. Thank you for being stronger than Satan and keeping him at enough distance that I can recognize all the good that you are.

You have made it possible for me to transcend worlds ~ from mine to yours ~ in prayer. You hear me! You actually hear me! How do you do that? Your Spirit touches my spirit. Your mind touches my mind. Your heart touches my heart.  My words arrive safely at your throne just as I uttered them.  I know you are there and hear me. I know because of the evidence you left in the Bible that you exist. Therefore, I praise you with all my spirit, my mind, my heart. Ah, I can hardly wait to enter your world, your heaven, where I will praise you all day.  Glorious day where there will never be night.

Lord, when people say bad things to or about me, I turn coward and slither away in fear. I know that perfect love casts out fear, so this proves I do not love them. Help me overcome my fears and love instead.

Thank you for allowing me to talk to you. You send me answers in your Bible or in changes of circumstances here on earth. If I pray to meet someone who lives far away, you shift things around so that person gets a different job and finds a house in the area where I live. All the shifting of lives you do to answer just one prayer. I do not know how you keep us all straight, but you do. And for that I am eternally grateful.

Lord God of heaven and earth, your radiance dazzles the universe. When you speak, the thunders crash. When you protect, you send bolts of lightning where needed. You are not soft. Your enemies hate you for stopping them. They declare you are not a good God because you will not let them do whatever they want.  I am unendingly grateful that you are my shield, my defender, my safeguard, my shelter. You are always there when I need you. I do not even know all the times you have kept me from harm, but I know you do. I praise you with my lips, my actions, my heart.

The other day I began flattering someone so they would do something for me. They are not normally the way I described them. They knew it and I knew it. It was blatant flattery. Lord, nothing is so important that I need to flatter and lie for something to be given or done.

Thank you for rain ~ gentle showers, rushing torrents, and all that is between.  You soften the ground with it and make it ready for seeds anxious to reproduce themselves. Spring is filled with hope, autumn overflowing with bounty.  Even the deserts with their sparseness and sand that blows wearily here and there come alive with blossoms that have been hidden since the last rain long before. No seed really ever dies. It always has life in it. How amazing how you awaken what was thought to be dead even in the desert and bless the earth. How kind you are to provide my food when I am hungry and nourish my life so I can plant seeds of your hope in others’ hearts.

My heart magnifies you, Jehovah God, the great I AM.  I stretch to touch you though you are within my heart. I long to see you though you are all around me. I strain to hear you though you are my song. You are magnificent beyond my greatest imagination. You are glorious above every galaxy in the cosmos. You are my Creator, my lover, my reason for being.

Forgive me when I fight your providence. I know you are leaving me here to fight Satan with your love. But sometimes I complain about my duties. Then I am ashamed.

Great God of heaven. Thank you for opening up the way for me to go home with you and live with you forever. You are faithful and true. You are my hope and joy. How does anyone survive this life without you? Deep inside, they are miserable and do not know why.  They have an artificial happiness based on laughter instead of love and wonder why tears mingle with that laughter. Their sense of fulfillment is unrewarding because their dream accomplishment and reward is always right around the corner. Thank you for giving me opportunities to enlighten them about you. Thank you for revealing yourself when you materialized as Jesus and when you left us your divine words. They guide my life, consume my thoughts, thrill my heart.

Shout for joy, all mountains. Sing with exhilaration, all stars. Declare it, all tongues, across seas far and wide: You, Lord, reign on earth and in heaven. You keep all things in order, rotating in their paths, blooming in their seasons, reproducing kind after kind.  You are faithful and true and let nothing stop you. You are the ultimate in love, kindness, mercy, gentleness. At the same time, you are strength, potency, might. You never change. You stand for right in the face of Satan who convinces mankind rebellion is good, doing things for self is best, following what you declared wrong is true life. You alone are good. You alone offer true life, marvelous life, forever life.

Forgive me, Lord, for accusing someone who forgot to repay me that it was on purpose. Help me stop faultfinding and judging. Help me do as Jesus said and give without expecting anything back.

Ah, my Lord, thank you for making me your bride.  How anxious I am for us to be together at last. I think and dream of that day when you will close the door on my life here and open it on my life with you.  Help those who love me here understand my new happiness when I go. Help them smile through their tears. You and I will be waiting for them to join us. Oh, happy day when my life will end here, for it will be the beginning of true life. To be the bride of the Creator lifts my heart and makes it soar through the universe to you.

Your mercy and compassion endure forever.  You make things happen in my life so I will stop what I’m doing and question you. You have your ways of getting my attention, don’t you? You will never stop running after the world trying to rescue it from Satan until the world ends. You have lifted up the most hardened persons on the wrong side of right, and turned them into mighty warriors on the right side of right. What you do in people’s lives is amazing and spectacular. Oh, my! You never tire of running, running, running. Your love never tires of declaring to this out-of-control world, “Come to me! Come, and I will give you rest.”

Lord, forgive me when I let people believe what they are saying about you is true when it is not. Help me learn to correct them with such gentleness and love, they will not see it as correction, but rather an awakening.

Thank you, Lord God, for my everyday comforts ~ food enough that I am not hungry, clothing enough that I am not cold, shelter enough that I am out of the elements, transportation enough that I can get where I need to go. You are the world’s bounty and it flows on until it fills my heart.

How can I praise you enough? Tell me and I will do it. You are in my thoughts and my dreams. You are my light in dark places. You are my warrior, my comforter, my hero.  You make promises and keep them. Even when things do not seem to go right, you are still keeping your promises. Even when a thousand years have passed, still you are keeping your promises.  Even when I have forgotten them, you never do. You are truth, integrity, fidelity. You are justice tempered with mercy. You are all I need and more than I can fully understand. You are above and beyond all things. Most of all, you are in my heart.

Please forgive me when I complain. Nothing happens to me without your permission. Help me see how my problems can only make me stronger if I let them. You did not set me in a lazy world where I do not have to lift a finger. You set me in a world with work to do, places to go, people to see. When I grow lazy, make me take a second breath and get out there and get back to work. It is the only way I can become spiritually strong.

Thank you, Lord, Jehovah, materialized in Jesus, magnified in his works, glorified in his words. You did everything possible to save me from hell.  You go after me when I wander away. You shine your light when I go into dark places. You love me even when I forget you.  I am unworthy. Yet you made me and I am yours. You protect me and give me strength. You give me your perfection just by believing all this. You even gave me your name.