Father God,

Today, I pray for Your power to work in us to hold fast to the covenant as described in Isaiah 56. The world offers so many ways and opportunities to sidestep Your Word, to compromise Your Word, to make things a little easier.

We repent of falling short. We repent of lowering Your standard to make ourselves think that we are living in obedience when in fact we are ignoring Your Word as it speaks into our lives. We repent of ignoring Your still small voice as it pulls at our resistant consciences.

Teach our hearts to walk contritely and humbly always seeking to draw closer still to Your Will worked out in every area of our lives. Work out in us that we might grip Your covenant promises as though everything depended on their fulfillment rather than depending on our clinging to the world’s false promises and ways of life.

As we grip Your covenant promises for dear life, be our Heavenly Father in every way and make us Your children, more and more like Christ every day.

In Christ’s Name,