Daily Prayer for January 8th, 2019  

Good morning, God—thank You! 🙂

Help me to love my enemies and pray for those who persecute me. Protect my heart O’ Lord, as from it flows the spring of life. Set a guard over my mouth, let me listen. Keep watch over the door of my lips. In Jesus name. Amen.

Exodus 14:14 English Standard Version (ESV)

14 The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”

Matthew 5:44 English Standard Version (ESV)

44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

James 1:19 English Standard Version (ESV)

Hearing and Doing the Word

19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

Micah 7:8 English Standard Version (ESV)

Rejoice not over me, O my enemy;
when I fall, I shall rise;
when I sit in darkness,
the Lord will be a light to me.

Proverbs 4:23 English Standard Version (ESV)

23 Keep your heart with all vigilance,
for from it flow the springs of life.

Psalm 141:3 English Standard Version (ESV)

Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth;
keep watch over the door of my lips!