A prayer for discipleship inspired by Psalm 1.
Lord, we ask that you will make us a blessed people who do not walk in the wicked’s counsel, stand in the sinners’s way, or sit in the scoffers’s seat, but who find such delight in your instruction that it is always on our hearts, minds, and lips.
Make us like a well-watered tree, nurtured to bear fruit and prosperous in all you give us to do. Keep us from being like those who oppose you. Their plans have the appearance of wisdom, but will ultimately come to nothing when you come to weigh and measure human works.
We trust you and know that your judgment is always righteous. Thank you for showing us your path—the path that leads to life—in your Word and through your Son Jesus Christ.
Amen.
JAMES SPENCER, PHD is President the D.L. Moody Center, an independent non-profit organization based in Northfield, MA, and author of Useful to God: Eight Lessons from the Life of D. L. Moody and Thinking Christian: Essays on Testimony, Accountability, and the Christian Mind
“Praying Psalm 1” first appeared in Worthwhile Theology Magazine.