![]() This includes your morning, noon, and night. God has plans for every day of your life. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.” “For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. ![]() Here are four scriptures to help you streamline your morning thoughts, and create room for a productive day Even if it’s just one verse or one word…use it! I understand that you may have other scriptures God has used to empower you. This made a huge difference and I realized that I had to share it with you. I didn’t just quote them and expect to jump out of bed like some genie in a lamp but took time to think about each verse – the words, the meaning, and God’s power. While still on my bed, with the covers strewn over me and my hand over my eyes to shield the light, I focused on four scriptures that have guided me, over the last few years. On this particular day, I decided to redefine my morning thoughts. During such days, I would usually toss and turn for about an hour before finally leaving the bed. I decided to try this out on one of those hard mornings, where you find yourself unable to go back to sleep and unable to get up. She talked about how focusing on certain thoughts and scriptures helped her define and improve her day. I recently came across this idea of morning thoughts while reading a devotional by Kimberley Washington. It is about streamlining our morning thoughts and making sure that they are aligned with what matters to us. In effect, the real battle to tackling each day starts with tackling our thoughts. And many times, when we wake up groggily our thoughts are not positive. Our minds are constantly in motion with thousands of thoughts filtering through. When we wake up (or at least one of the many times we wake up – I’m judging your snoozing skills), one of the first things we do is think. Streamlining your thoughts improves your day In case you were wondering how I know these so well you can be sure that I have lived it. The reality is that these strings of sequences repeat themselves more often than we had like. The shower is a rude awakening, and morning prayers are mumbled through with guilt and promises to do better. We conclude that we couldn’t have slept more than 2 hours (even though it was closer to 7). We levitate.Įyes half-closed shuffling through our morning like a drunken sailor. And when we do wake up, we don’t get up like normal people. We get into a full-out war with our alarm clocks secretly wishing we could destroy it forever. ![]() We tell ourselves we will wake up with the sun, spend quality time with God, and prepare for the day – in an unhurried and peaceful way.īut when those rays start filtering through our blinds our well-intentioned plans flitter away. Just before we sleep, we are brimming with optimism on all we will accomplish the next day. Upon all, pour down your great mercy, that we, saved in body and in soul, may persevere unfailingly and that, in our confidence, we may extol your exalted and blessed Name, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, always, now and forever.Four scriptures to help you start your morning rightįor most of us, our mornings are where our good intentions come to die. ![]() In the abundance of your mercies, O Lord, remember all your people all those present who pray with us all our brethren on land, at sea, or in the air, in every place of Your domain, who call upon your love for mankind. Grant us all our requests, if they lead to salvation give us the grace of manifesting that we are children of light and day, and heirs to your eternal reward. Now, in your own tender love, accept us who adore You and give thanks to You with all our heart. In your mercy, you gave us rest through night-long sleep, and raised us up to glorify your goodness and to offer our supplication to You. O Master and holy God, who are beyond our understanding: at your word, light came forth out of darkness.
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