09/13/2024
Father God, most people are looking for happiness at the wrong places and for the wrong reasons. My prayer is that may You direct us where true happiness can be found.
Your WORD declares that to be happy, to be blessed is totally the opposite of what the world knows as happiness.
To be truly happy is knowing that your final home is heaven.
True happiness is to be meek and humble and mourn over our sin for You give us comfort and love and assurance.
True happiness is desiring to live a righteous life for You bring satisfaction and contentment.
Help us O God to be merciful as You are, and continue to receive Your mercy.
May we be pure in heart for we want to see You.
May we make peace with You, so that we can make peace with others and be called You children.
We pray for all of Your children who are persecuted in the world because of their faith in Your Son Jesus Christ. May their blessedness and joy be not diminished for the sufferings they are going through. Remind them that they belong to Your Kingdom of heaven.
Help us to consider insults, persecutions, false accusations and even sufferings as an honor because of our faith in Christ.
All true happiness, joy and blessedness are because of our saving relationship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in whose Name we pray. Amen.