Morning prayer · 18 February
Living it, loving it

Lord, teach me to know your will by living it, loving it and always doing it. Then I’ll learn to pray in line with your will, and when my prayers agree with it, I’ll find boldness to ask and confidence to receive your answer. Father, you want your child to enjoy your presence and your blessing. You want everything in my life to fit with your will, and you want your Holy Spirit to make it so. You want me to see clear answers to prayer day by day, and to live in close friendship with you. My Father, let your will be my confidence in everything I ask. Let it be the solid rock that my prayers, and my trust that you’ll answer, always rest on. Amen.
If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
Adapted from Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer (1885), in plain words. The verse is from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Drawing: Mutter.