Nehemiah 9&8; Ps 105; John 15

Father, blessed be your glorious name. You are the Lord; you alone. You are exalted above all blessing and praise.

Thank you, Father, for your word and for giving me the sense that I can hear it and have understanding of it. Today I make great rejoicing, because I understand the words that you declare to me.

I have your joy, father, a divine eternal joy; sovereign over all of the world’s anxieties and foolishness. Your joy is my strength and it is rooted in your living and abiding word that fills and guides me. Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.

You, Lord Jesus, have spoken these things to me so that the joy of the Lord will be in me, and so that my joy would be full. Not that my joy would just be “enough”, but more than enough: a wellspring filling up and overflowing in praise and honor and glory to you, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.