Putting on Your Armor in the Morning

In order to get each day started off on the right foot, this is prayed aloud with attention given to each step:

Lord, by faith here's what I'm doing right now to prepare myself for the coming day. I'm putting on the belt of truth. I ask you to make it very clear to me what I am to accept into my life and what I am to reject. Help me to see clearly the motives of others as they deal with me and talk with me. Let me walk in Your Truth, making decisions and choices according to Your plans and purposes for my life.

I am putting on the breastplate of righteousness. Guard my emotions today. Protect my heart. Help me to take into my life only the things that are pure, and nothing that is poisonous or polluting. Help me to live in integrity and to have a reputation based upon doing, saying, believing, thinking and feeling the best right things. Help me to live in a right relationship with You every moment of this day.

I am putting on my spiritual boots. Help me to stand and walk in Your peace and to move forward never backward in ways that bring Your peace and love to others. Help me to have the full confidence and assurance that come from knowing that I am filled with the peace that only You can give to those who are Your children. Help me to be a peacemaker. Show me where to walk and how to walk as You would walk.

I am picking up the shield of faith. Help me to trust You to be my Victory in every area of life today. Help me to trust You to defend me, provide for me, and keep me in safety every hour of this day.

I am putting on my helmet of salvation. Guard my mind today. Bring to my remembrance all that You have done for me as my Savior. Let me live in the hope and confidence that You are saving me - rescuing me and delivering me - from evil.

I am picking up my sword of the Spirit, the Word of God. Bring to my remembrance today the verses of the Bible that I have read and memorized, and help me to apply them to the situations and circumstances I will face. Let me use Your Words to bring Your Light into the darkness of this world and to defeat the devil when he comes to tempt me.

Father, I want to be fully clothed with the identity of Jesus Christ today. I am in Christ. He is in me. Help me to realize and accept fully that He is my Truth, my Righteousness, my Peace, my Savior, the Source of my faith, and the ever-present Lord over everything in my life.

I desire to bring glory to Your Name today. I ask all of this in the Name of Jesus. Amen!

In my own experience, I have found that by giving the first 10% of each day to the Lord in prayer, praise, worship and the study of His Word... He will cause more to be accomplished in the remaining 90% that had I kept the entire 100% to myself.