Day 69: Ember Faith Prayer Countdown

Today, we pray that Ember will realize who she was made to be and find her true identity in Christ.

So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

I’m speaking to you out of deep gratitude for all that God has given me, and especially as I have responsibilities in relation to you. Living then, as every one of you does, in pure grace, it’s important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God. No, God brings it all to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we are and what we do for him.

                                                                         Romans 12:1-3 THE MESSAGE

Dear Heavenly Father, we pray that Ember will realize very early in life that to be true to herself means that she has to be true to You. You created her, You formed her and You know who she is meant to be. Help her to see that and to surrender her life completely to You.

Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;

you formed me in my mother’s womb.

I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking!

Body and soul, I am marvelously made!

I worship in adoration—what a creation!

You know me inside and out,

you know every bone in my body;

You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,

how I was sculpted from nothing into something.

Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;

all the stages of my life were spread out before you,

The days of my life all prepared

before I’d even lived one day.

                                                      Psalm 139: 13-16 THE MESSAGE

Lord, help our daughter to find her true identity in You. Help her to understand that as she loves and serves You, she is living her life to the fullest! May she never seek to find her true self in the many empty wells of this life. May she stand apart from this culture and never lose her identity in the crowds of this world. God, we pray that You would show her each day how special she is, how precious in Your sight! Lord, give her confidence in who she is in You. This we pray as we await the arrival of our unique and precious gift!

Remind Me Who I Am

By Jason Gray