Praying: hope and patience

I am praying today. I hope that goes without saying. I write a lot of prayers, but don’t often share them. Writing is one way I slow my mind and contemplate my God.

Dear Father and God, promise-giver and hope-sustainer, please give me today the patience I need to wait on Your will and your plans for me and for your Kingdom. Give me inner peace as I wait. Give me understanding as I try to discern your will. Give me boldness to step out in faith. I depend on your promise to give wisdom. Thank you for your presence, your forgiveness, and the love you have extended through the blood and sacrifice of Jesus Christ which saves me and sanctifies me and secures me. In Jesus’ name, amen.