O, that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge

my territory, that Your hand would be with me,

and keep me from evil so I may not cause pain.

Please keep me from making mistakes I’m most

prone to when temptation comes. I confess what I

think is necessary, smart, or personally beneficial

is so often only the beautiful wrapping on sin. So

please, keep evil far from me. Please keep me safe

from the pain and grief sin brings. For the

dangers I can’t see, or the ones I think I can risk

because of my experience (pride & carelessness),

put up a supernatural barrier. Protect me, Father,

by your power. Please keep me safe from

temptations pulling at my emotions and my

physical needs, calling out to my sense of what I

deserve and what I have the “right” to feel and

enjoy. Because You are the true source of all that

is really life, direct my steps away from all that is

not of you. Please expand my opportunities and

my impact in such a way I touch more lives for

Your glory. Let me do more for you. At your

name Lord Jesus, every other power on earth

must bow or flee!

<I did not write this, a friend shared this with me several years ago and I have had it on my office wall since then.  I read it often and think about God’s awesome abilities and what he has planned for me!  Happy New Years!>