God of patience & consolation please empower us with righteousness, joy & peace in the Spirit. Also please help us to build right relationships through kindness, forgiveness & service & sensitive concern for others. Please allow us to be part of the hopeful who are motivated to endure whatever it takes to receive what we hope for Your Kinddom. God of mercy please rescue us from the influence of Satan & from the influence of the world & help us to be under the influence of You & Your Spirit, Empower us to place Your commands & instructions first in our minds & hearts & to keep them diligently. Please lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one.