July 4

Our Loving Lord,
Thank you for a new day of life. Thank you for Your blessed peace. Thank you for the joy that You so graciously provide. Please forgive us when we lose faith in You because of our circumstances. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, and ever constant in prayer. For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have this hope. Please be with us. May the Beloved God of hope fill us with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit we may abound in that eternal hope, is my prayer in Christ's sovereign name, Amen.