Morning Prayer for Today – Confidence in Christ

My Father,

Thank you for another opportunity to fellowship with you through prayer. 

Thank you for the gift of your grace, which is available to me each day through your Son, Jesus.

I am persuaded that your grace never fails and is always available to help me become more like Christ.

I am reading Philippians 3:3-8:

For we are the true circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and take pride in Christ Jesus,

And put no confidence in the flesh, although I could boast as having confidence even in the flesh.

If anyone else thinks he is confident in the flesh, I have more reason: circumcised on the eighth day of the nation of Israel,

Of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church;

As to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless.

But whatever things were gain to me, these things I have counted as loss because of Christ. 

More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord,

for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them mere rubbish, so that I may gain Christ.

And so Father, as I pray, I receive your empowerment to confidently put Christ first in all things.

I will not boast about my strengths, religion, victories, or achievements. 

Instead, let me boast in your mercy, forgiveness, grace, and second chance that I have in Jesus.

Let me remain humble, living with gratitude to you for my past and the glorious future awaiting me.

Let me invest myself more and more in the knowledge of Jesus until I am entirely changed by Him.

In Jesus' name, I pray.

Amen.