A Prayer About Thoughts

A prayer about Thoughts

When I have trouble staying focused

Holy God,

I am convicted about my thought life. I waste so much time daydreaming. Too often, my mind reverts to reimagining the past or daydreaming about scenarios that might happen in the future. Either way, I am wasting the mind you gave me. I cannot change the past, so please help me not to dwell on it. I cannot control the future, so help me not to daydream or worry. I pray that you will help me focus my thoughts on the here and now. I have missed so much of your activity in the present because my mind was somewhere it shouldn’t have been. O Lord, please help me to focus my thoughts back on you. Channel my thought life into things that are honorable and worthy of praise. Most important, draw my thoughts to ponder you and your mighty ways.

Dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. Philippians 4:8