“The purposes of a person’s heart are deep waters, but one who has insight draws them out.” Proverbs 20:5

Lord God, As I sit here today I realize that my thoughts, feelings, words and actions do not align with your word or with reality. Sometimes I think and feel things that are simply not legitimate. Other times I think and feel things that are downright wicked and sinful. Forgive me, I pray, I want to do better. I do not always know where those things come from in my life; my heart is a deep sea and it is corrupt and sinful. I pray, help me to take stock of my thoughts and feelings that rise up from my heart. Help me to fully grasp why these things rise up in me. Grant me wisdom to see what is going on in my heart and help me, then, to align my heart with your Word and with what you say is good and pleasing. Strengthen me by your Spirit to put down and put away all sinful thoughts and wicked feelings. Strengthen me by your Spirit to live a life that is fully aligned with your Word from the depths of my heart to the steps that I take. Help me, I pray. Amen.

We want to align our hearts and our thinking and then also our actions with God’s good wisdom and his good guidance.