Lord, by the power of Your Spirit, filter the thoughts that run like a river at flood stage through my heart. Draw my mind’s focus heavenward so that my perspective does not become skewed by overreaction or self-centered emotion. Hide my life, its essence and energy, in the folds of Your beautiful truth. I know that glory belongs to You alone. Put all earthly tendencies lingering within me to death, Lord. Where there is impurity, grant me a deluge of holiness. When coveting grips me with its obsessive talons, grant me the sweet release of contentment. I need nothing besides You. There is only one righteousness and it is Yours to impart. Assist me in putting malice and slander back in their place. Let me not be one easily offended. Measure me with honesty that becomes as much a part of me as it is Yours to impart. Truth is so much more than a concept. It is Your way. Let me walk in it. Fill my heart with the heavenly contents of compassion, kindness, humility, and patience. Bind me together with divine love that covers a multitude of sins. Under the blessing of Your glorious Word in 1 Peter 4:7-8 and the authority of Christ, I pray.
Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer. And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:7-8, WEB
