Is. 64:4-5 (Amp.): "...no one has heard... nor has the eye seen a God besides You, Who works and shows Himself active on behalf of him who [earnestly] waits for Him. You meet and spare him who joyfully works righteousness (uprightness and justice0, [earnestly] remembering You in Your ways."
Is. 64:8: "But now, O LORD, You are [my] Father; [I] am the clay, and You [my] potter;...{I am] the work of Your hand."
A prayer to pray: Ps. 115:14-15: "May the LORD give you increase more and more, you and your children. May you be blessed by the LORD...."
Prayer from Philippians 1:6, 9-11: "...that He who has begun a good work in you [Amp.: "...developing (that good work) and perfecting and bringing it to full completion in you."] will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.... that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment [Amp.: "...that your love may... extend to its fullest development in knowledge and all keen insight (that your love may display itself in greater depth of acquaintance and more comprehensive discernment)], that you may approve the things that are excellent [Amp.: "So that you may surely learn to sense what is vital, and approve and prize what is excellent and of real value (recognizing the highest and the best, and distinguishing the moral differences")], that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ [Amp.: "and that you may be untainted and pure and unerring and blameless (so that with hearts sincere [genuine] and certain and unsullied, you may approach) the day of Christ (not stumbling nor causing other to stumble], being filled with the fruits of righteousness [Amp.: of right standing with God and right doing] which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God." [Amp.: that His glory may be both manifested and recognized].
Prayer from Philippians 1:27: "that you are standing firm in united spirit and purpose, striving side by side and contending with a single mind for rthe faith of the glad tidings (the Gospel)."
John MacArthur Daily Study Bible: Discernment = moral perception, insight, and the practical application of knowledge. Love is not blind, but perceptive..." (1004).
on Philippians 1:10: "Believers need the ability to distinguish those things that are truly important so they can establish the right priorities" (1004).
Beth Moore, speaking of Jesus' walking on the water: "Christ didn't change His circumstances to make them bearable. He mastered them at the peak of their impossibility" (105).
"[P]eace means the absence of fear and turmoil, not the absence of pain and grief" (107).
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