Father... thank you for another day... it's good... I want to just stop for a few minutes and  focus on you as the most important thing in my life… to verbalize my  thoughts… to look to you as the source of everything...take me into those green pastures ...where I get so nourished every day… lead me by the still waters... where I get refreshed and restored by you... fill me with your life... you are the living water... bring me into your rest where I stop all my work and watch... as you do the work that you want done… keep my heart at peace throughout the day…. continue to teach me how to live in your son…. how to talk with you about everything ... how to hear your voice each time you speak. Then lead me in your paths of righteousness for your name’s sake.

I come today... to receive from you ... all of the grace and mercy I need... so you can  accomplish your will and purpose in me for this day... I have seen the battle... I understand...  I thank you for your constant revelation. I put on all your armor... in order to be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil and prepare myself for the battle today. I gird myself with the belt of truth... that's you, Lord.. you who are the truth... you alone are the one that enables me to see all the lies... all the deceptions of the evil one. I put on your breastplate of righteousness to protect and guard my heart from the enemy’s arrows that would try to destroy or steal my heart.... I put on your shoes... (all the teachings and experiences from 45 years of walking with you)... so I can walk out your gospel of the Kingdom... live out your gospel of peace, love, restoration, reconciliation and a real relationship with you….just being who I am where I am... doing what you give me to do... each day...right here in Morrisville where you have placed me. I put on your helmet of salvation which protects my mind from every onslaught of Satan’s lies, deceptions and doubts. I take up the shield of faith that continually grows as I walk with you and with it extinguish all the flaming missiles of the evil one... I take up the sword of the Spirit, which is  the living Word of God ...your son Jesus...He is the Word.. .He is the Christ the Son of the Living God....

I wield all these weapons against the Evil One... in the power of God... on this battlefield, this day....  because our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against the rulers and their rules….against the principalities and their principles… against the powers… both sets of powers… the world forces of this darkness, and the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. I am now able to.....not only resist and stand firm.... but continually attack the enemy. My weakness is your strength...any strength I have is simply your strength...  I will pray at all times in the Spirit... because I don't know how to pray what needs to be prayed... but you do... Lord, demonstrate your power and authority in all things according to your will and purpose... not according to mine... I honor you as my sovereign Lord and surrender every aspect of my life totally and completely to you.  I give you my heart... I give you my life... I give you everything... all that I am...as a living sacrifice... body... soul...spirit...  

Holy Spirit, guide me in this time of prayer... In everything that I pray... I include all those I love:  Ellen... your special gift to me... my best friend and partner in this great adventure…. Jon and Amy: Finn-Henry… Jen and Dano: Lian - Anna - Nathanael Niyonzima... Philip/Kathy: Philip III-IV/Aileen - Bryan-Albert… Janet/Eric: Steven-Cheyenne… Matthew/Mary: Megan-Jayme… Carla/Steve: Kaine-Dylan… Christopher/Christine: Chris-Jesse-Nathan-Lenny…Lorin/Ben: Lacey-Rebekah ... I pray for our siblings and their families: Bruno-Jim-Marc-Maris-Tom-Kathy-Jeanne ….all our family and friends....especially Listers/Carters/Naults/Kraus/Hallers/Hopkins/Alvarez/Peixotos/Awads/Spinellis/Dotys/

DiMauros/Rocha/Beltramis/Careys/Loraditch's/Mannings/Martha/Tatros/Zippy... and any others you place on my heart today...Lord, include them in all I ask... Holy Spirit show me how to pray for them... I bring them all to you today.... apply to them ... all that I pray for myself.

I pray that the eyes of our hearts will be enlightened that we may know the hope to which we have been called...and continue to grow to a place of knowing you, Father and all you have purposed for us... by Your Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the true knowledge of your  son, Jesus....  I present myself as a living sacrifice... my act of worship to you.... as my heart continues to seek more and more of your life... you alone are Life.... I can now live and move and have my life in you. I give myself completely to you again today... I belong to you... reveal yourself in me..

Father in heaven... thank you that I can call you Father... you have adopted me into your family... no longer a slave ...but a son.... Holy is your name.... I pray that your kingdom comes.... I pray that your will is done... right here on earth.... just like it is in heaven...   Father, I also ask you for our daily bread.... thank you for that.... thank you for your constant provision...  It has been more than we could ask or think.... and forgive me my sins, Father.... as I forgive those who sin against me... do not lead me into any temptation.... but deliver me from that evil one..... he has no power... it is no longer his kingdom, Father... It is your Kingdom... your authority.... your power..... we want you to receive all the glory, Father.

Father, bless us ... diminish us... increase yourself...in us... in all you give us to do... keep us from harm and from the evil one... give us understanding hearts, wisdom and knowledge to love your people....and not cause others pain!” 

 We belong completely to you Father. You have purchased us. We are your possessions. Do whatever you will... in us and thru us.

For me to live.... is Christ!  You are the one who does all things in me... the one who strengthens me.... thank you that your strength is made perfect in my weakness.

Jesus prayed:   “Father, I do not ask you to take Philip out of the world, but to keep him from the evil one. He is not of the world... even as I am not of the world. Set him apart in me... for I am the Truth. As You sent me into the world... I send him... therefore... the Spirit of the Lord God is upon him as he is upon me... because the Lord has anointed him... to bring good news to the afflicted... he has sent him to bind up the brokenhearted... to proclaim liberty to captives.... and freedom to prisoners.... to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord.... the day of vengeance of our God... and to comfort all who mourn….  for this very same reason... I also have sent... Philip  into the world. And for his sake I set Myself apart.... that he also may be set apart... in me."

Father, thank you for granting to me every blessing in the heavenlies ....Holy Spirit I ask you for your favor today.... I thank you for it...help me to walk in you as you accomplish your will and your purpose for my life.... I receive you as my King... my authority... the ruler of my life... you are my everlasting victory over Satan and his kingdom... I receive all the work and triumph of your ascension....  Satan has been judged and cast down... his rulers and authorities disarmed and paraded before your people in humiliation as captives... as your defeated foes. ...You have destroyed the works of the devil.... I proclaim this to principalities and powers... as truth... as fact... as DONE ... and  shout it from the housetops!

I receive all your authority in heaven and on earth... everything given to you, Lord….. to use it for your glory...I take my place in you…. bring your kingdom rule... over my life... my family... my sphere .... my business…over everything you have given me to be and to do during my time here on earth. May it all be done in you.  

I bring the fullness of your work—your cross, resurrection, and ascension—against Satan... against his kingdom... against all his emissaries and against all their work warring against you... warring against me... warring against my family and friends...  warring against my sphere and our business.... for greater is he who is in me... than he who is in the world....

Jesus... thank you for your authority to overcome all the power of the Evil One....we bring your authority against every enemy and banish them in your name.... the name above every name... we enter today’s adventures... today’s battles... taking the offensive and coming against the very gates of hell... which will NOT prevail... the gates and the walls shall come down... they MUST come down... we have crossed the Jordan.... Jericho is defeated.... Satan’s works are destroyed.... IT IS FINISHED!

Father, thank you for your angels.... I ask you to release them into these battles… to war and win the battles for us and for our loved ones.  May they guard us... our family and friends at all times... each day. Thank you for those who pray for us….  we need their prayers….  raise up a full canopy of prayer and intercession for us.... I pray all this in the name of Jesus...