My morning prayers

I pray each morning driving to work. I start by asking God to forgive me of my sins (like David says, they overwhelm me and are more than the hairs on my head) and I know my prayers won't go through when I have a whole bulk of sins blocking my prayers. So need to get the sins out of the way. Then I thank God for His love, grace and mercies towards me. Because I honestly don't think I will be alive today (or can make it alive for the next few minutes) without it. Then I pray for my sick friends and relatives. Sadly, there are so many people with sicknesses nowadays and every prayer counts. Sometimes I think whether my little prayer will make any difference to someone who is so sick, but then I think again, maybe it means everything. And if I were sick, I'd really appreciate someone praying for me.

Then I pray for my stuff - my work, my ministries, my life. Everyday, I ask God to lead and guide me, to make His will my will, and that His will be done. Sometimes I'll feel worried praying that, because I have no idea what God has planned. But then life is really not worth living if I miss out His will for me completely and do something I wasn't created to do. And I remind myself daily that I am nothing without Him. I usually add in little things in my prayers, like now I'm praying that God will make my 2 dogs Bully and Spottie love each other so that they will not fight. And so far they have been really good!

Then the end is my favourite. Not because I'm ending the prayers, but because the end part keeps me alive. Everyday, for the past... maybe over 10 years, I've prayed this. I ask God for His protection and good health for my family members (including my dogs & parrot) and I ask Jesus to cover us with His blood. With His blood over us, nothing can harm us. Then I just see all the evil stuff fleeing from us :) Then I say, in Jesus name I pray, Amen!

"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
John 15:5

You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
1 John 4:4