Morning Prayer on my wedding day and after

PAPA,

Today is my wedding day!  It is new season of my life

 Thank you for enabling us to prepare for this day and to  work through a lot of particulars in our pre-marital counseling. May we always be a  part of a wonderful covenant community that will continue to teach us things directly and indirectly along your journey.

PAPA You say that I am Your workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works which You prepared for me to walk in (Eph 2:10).  Thank you for blessing me with a godly man to partner with in this life of good works. May You always be our first love!Empower us to be be a man and a woman of the Word. may we intentionally hide your Word be in our hearts that we may not sin against you.  May we talk  about your Word when we walk by the way, when we lie down, and when we rise up.

PAPA today is our first day of building a new family. You say that unless You build the house, we will be labouring in vain. Build for us!

You say that without a vision people perish. I pray that you may give us a solid vision. Empower and equip us to review these plans regularly together in light of the building code which is  Your Word. Empower and equip us to daily commit our plans to You, and to execute them with diligence.

PAPA, A blueprint is one thing, the building of the actual house quite another. May we not just start with high hopes, empower and equip us to be diligent  and do what it takes to see the vision You give to us materialize. Proverbs 21:5 reminds us that: “The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, but those of everyone who is hasty, surely to poverty.”

PAPA You have promised to complete the good work You begun in us- being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it to completion until the day of Christ Jesus."
Philippians  1:6

Empower  and equip him to love me and empower and equip me to respect him-"However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband." Ephesians 5:33

Empower and equip me to be led by him. May I  always run other people’s input by him

Empower and equip me with an attitude of gratitude. Ps 103:1-2 tells us: “Bless the LORD, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits. Thank you for  forgiving our sins! Thank you for  crowning us with Your loving-kindness! Thank You for  satisfying our mouths with good things. May we bless you Lord throughout our day. 

Empower and equip me to be B's number one cheerleader. May my words, actions, and countenance  build *B* up and empower him to be the man You designed him to be. May he be more than he ever thought he could be! May I Never make fun of him or put him down,whether in public or in private. May I always demonstrate respect to *B* and build him up with my words.

Empower and equip me to be the wise woman who builds her house (Proverbs 14:1) and is the crown of my husband (Proverbs 12:4)  May the way I interact with *B* impact him positively. Let him be like the husband in Proverbs 31 whose heart safely trusts in his wife so that he can sit in the gates with the elders of the land. May my interactions never lead him to be  crawling off to a corner of the housetop just trying to get away.

Grow my sense of humor and my ability to laugh at things because "a merry heart does good, like medicine," (Proverbs 17:22) and will cure that continual dripping (Proverbs 27:15)



Empower and equip me for mundane tasks.  May I be wise and remember that dirty dishes are a sign of God’s faithful provision and they give thanks to Him as they clean them AGAIN.  2 Thessalonians 3:13 to “not grow weary in doing good.”

FOR TODAY 
This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24