I Thes. 1,2,3&5

Thank you, father, for granting me repentance and saving my soul from hell. Thank you that, by your grace, I have turned to you, father, and left idols and self to serve you, the living and true God, and to wait for your son, my Lord, Jesus the Christ, who  you raised from the dead; who delivers me from the wrath to come.  I receive your word, not as the word of men, but as what it really is, the word of God; living and breathing, cutting and changing, filled with divine grace and life.

Father, today make me increase and abound in love for others. Establish my heart blameless in holiness before you; speak to me and through me to admonish the idle, to encourage the faint hearted, to help the weak, and to be patient with all. Today, by your grace and in communion with your Holy Spirit, and I seek to do good; I rejoice always; I pray without ceasing; I give thanks in all circumstances. I do not quench your spirit, father. I welcome your preaching. You, the God of peace, sanctify me completely.