Day 6 – Wisdom

Spiritual wisdom and understanding, knowledge of God: For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, (Colossians 1:9-10)

Lord, increase our hunger and thirst for knowledge of You. Grow in us wisdom and understanding. Open the eyes of our hearts that we may see Your hand at work in and around us. Fill us with Your Spirit that we may seek to know and do Your will and that we may bear fruit that is pleasing to You. Thank You, Father for all You have done for us and are about to do in us. May all that we say and do bring glory and honor to You in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

Day 5 – Self-discipline

Training the body to do what it should: Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize. (1 Corinthians 9:24-27)

Father, we know that our bodies are Your temple. Help us to treat our bodies as Your dwelling place, neither indulging in anything harmful nor overindulging in anything otherwise not harmful. Give us self-discipline in training for the race so that we will not be disqualified for the prize. In Jesus’ name, amen.