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I want to help you set yourself up for spiritual success at the beginning of each day. So here are five prayers to start your day with the Holy Spirit.

Now, not only am I going to teach a little on each prayer,

but I'm also going to pray each prayer with you.

So let's get started.

Number one, when you begin your day,

you're going to begin with a prayer of gratitude.

In Psalm 107, verse 1, we read, give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.

His faithful love endures forever. In Psalm chapter nine, we read in verses one and two,

I will praise you, Lord, with all my heart, I will tell of all the marvelous things you have done.

I will be filled with joy because of you. I will sing

praises to your name, almost high. Psalm chapter 100, verses four and five say, enter his gates with

thanksgiving. Go into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him and praise his name for the Lord is good. His unfailing love continues

forever and his faithfulness continues to each generation. When you begin the day with gratitude,

when you begin the day with thanking God for what he's already done, praising him for his great works,

and you start your day in the right

frame of mind. Far too many believers begin their day by focusing on what they don't have,

focusing on what they're still praying for, they're focusing on what went wrong, and by doing

this, they robbing themselves of gratitude, and by robbing themselves of gratitude, they robbed themselves of joy.

Gratitude is a source of joy.

When we're in the right frame of mind, and we're thinking about what God has accomplished,

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