God, my banner and my shield, guard me today as I go about my daily activities. Guard me from the evil one and from the world, but mostly guard me from myself. Guard me from the overanalytical, obsessive-compulsive, selfish worshipper of me that I can be sometimes.

Guard my heard from being swayed to and fro by emotions, ungodly passions, infatuations and diversions from You. Guard my heard, the wellspring of my life. Let me not be in control of my own heart, but may Your peace rule over it. My heart is deceitful and if I let it have its way, I will be a mess. Even more of a mess than I am now. So guard my heard and while You’re at it, transform it, too. Take out my heart and give me Yours.

Guard my mind from figuring out how I can fix and manipulate and arrange everything to work out the way I want it to. Guard me from leaning on my own understanding in lieu of trusting in You. Take my mind and let me have the mind of Christ. All his thoughts were of pleasing You and accomplishing Your will. I want that mindset in me.

Guard me from me. Take me and break me and mold me into You. Fill me so that You fill me up and pour through every pore in my body until all the world sees anymore is You.

Be the Supply to all my need, the Answer to all my questions, the Wine to all my thirsting, the Bread to all my hungering, the Balm to all my hurt, and the Peace to all my anxiety.

Thank You that You  said you would be all these things and all the things I never thought or dreamed to ask You to be.

Amen.