Make my dwelling God's Sanctuary.

 Make My Dwelling God's Sanctuary

A Prayer from 1 Corinthians 3:16, Ephesians 2:21-22, and Psalm 84:1-2

Make my dwelling God's sanctuary—not a building made of stone,

But a place where the Spirit of the Living God is fully known.

Let every room be filled with prayer, every corner speak Your grace,

And let the holy presence of the Lord inhabit this space.

Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? (1 Corinthians 3:16)

Sanctify the entrance where we come and go.

Let the name of Jesus be the first word, high and low.

Sanctify the kitchen where we break our daily bread.

Let gratitude and fellowship where our spirits are fed.

Sanctify the living room, where laughter and tears are shared.

Let love and understanding prove that we are cared.

Sanctify the bedrooms—rest and dreams and sleep.

Let Your angels guard the silence and Your promises keep.

In Him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in Him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by His Spirit. (Ephesians 2:21-22)

Sanctify the table, the hearth, the humble door.

Let peace be the welcome, and kindness the floor.

Let not bitterness or anger find a nesting place.

Let forgiveness be the fragrance that fills this holy space.

For my home is not just rafters, drywall, glass, and beam.

It is a sanctuary for the weary, a harbor for the dream.

So I consecrate each threshold, each window, each wall.

Make my dwelling God's sanctuary—let His presence fall.

How lovely is Your dwelling place, Lord Almighty! My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord. (Psalm 84:1-2)

Amen.