Birthday Prayer

Father I thank You for another year of life. I thank You for waking me up and sustaining my life for another 365 days! I thank You that You have sought me far more often than I have sought after You. I thank You for the lessons that I have learned through the successes that You provided for me. I thank You for the failures in my life life and that Your sovereign grace turns those failures into lessons. I ask that You please show me how to learn from the poor choices and bad decisions and I plead with You to turn the hurts, pains, resentments, and bitterness of this past year into trophies of Your love, mercy and grace!

Thank You for those who remain faithful to me in my life despite my struggles, but most of all, thank You for being faithful to me and reminding me that no matter how much I may doubt myself, become depressed or discouraged that You promise that You love me with a steadfast and everlasting love. You tell me that You never leave me or forsake me and that is the greatest gift of all. Thank You that Your mercies are new every morning and that no matter how far I may have fallen that You have always been there to scoop me up and draw me back to Yourself.

Thank You that You know my heart and love me anyway! Thank You for a wife and family that demonstrate Your love to me in a way that I see it each and every day of my life. Thank You Lord that when I take You for granted, that You still love me with a love incomprehensible!

Thank You for the greatest gift of all in that while I was at my farthest point away from You and submersed in rebellion that You sought me out and called me to Yourself. Thank You, that even today, You are actively intentional about Your grace in my life! Please continue to pour that out on me in a way that my life, over this next year, is one that vaguely resembles the man I am today and all of it, for Your honor and for Your glory! Thank YOU!