Dear Heavenly Father,
We praise your holy and precious name. Lord, we thank you for our sanctification. Thank you for loving us enough to work with us and see us through the process of becoming more and more like your Son. Yes, it takes trials and tribulations of all kinds, and I know you hurt when we hurt, but you also see what you’re making us to be, how you’re molding our hearts into something beautiful, how you’re permanently changing our souls to conform to you. Though we can’t see it, we trust you and thank you for your perfect plan. Thank you for preparing us for our eternal home with you. Please give us courage and strength as we go through that spiritual metamorphosis, through the pain and sorrow and grief, and in it may you also give us times of refreshing, and a deep down hope and joy that act as an anchor to our souls to keep us grounded in you. Fill us with your Spirit, Lord, and as we daily nail our sins to the cross, may He flow through us as a holy river, overflowing with love and joy on all we meet. In Jesus’ precious name I pray, amen.