Dear God,
You are the Lord of all
true spiritual soldiers. You are the
divine Master of all who cling to You fervently amidst the anxieties of the
great controversy. As we believers grow
closer to You and are refined and made new, You are the power both behind and
in our becoming. We owe You
everything. I owe You everything I am
today. Yahweh, I pray that You listen to
the audible, intervening plea of my heart, as I humbly and desperately seek to
intrude upon what has been happening to me by breaking through to Your throne
of grace. I also pray that You
comprehend the meaning of my crying appeal for the sacred kindness of Your
merciful intrusion into my circumstances and feelings. Holy Spirit intercede and convey with Your
divine groanings; please perfect the prayer of my soul that I am trying to
communicate to You. From the source of
Your enduring stability – though I am so predictably unstable – and because of
the uncluttered wellspring of Your sparkling merits – for I am nothing without
You – answer my heart with some kind of response!
O Creative God, I am but a
bond-slave of love to You. All I can do
is humbly yet boldly beg that You will not bring to pass the justice that the
sum of my life’s choices deserves, because no one who’s ever lived or ever will
live can be proven good-hearted in comparison to You, let alone apart from
You. Without You I have no hope of
goodness. Without You I have no purity,
no claim on You. I recognize what I deserve. I recognize my limits. I recognize my need for You. I am nothing without You.
I feel hunted in my soul by messages
that are ruthlessly hostile to my relationship with You – by sensations that
attack my faith so that I feel trampled and crushed into the ground where there
is almost no hope to help me keep functioning.
I feel like my soul is being forced against its will into a union with
darkness that would decay and kill my heart as dead as people who have been
rotting for centuries.
My inner spirit is inhaling more and
more feebly, Lord. My inmost heart
feels like a desolate particle of waste because of what I am going through.
Despite all of this, I have and will
actively bring my mind back to the chronicles of ancient histories and of how
You have led me in my own life story; I am choosing to think about the whole
symphony of all Your individual works and I am focusing on the good fruit of
Your divine authority in contrast to the disheartening rot of evil.
I
am baring before us both my paltry capacity to control my life and myself when
I am separated from You. I am under no
illusions. O God, my soul’s very life is
gasping for You to drench and nourish me like famine-cursed ground aching for
water.
O Master and Lord of my
life please respond to me without any more suspense; it feels like my courage
is at an end…! If you withhold Your
presence from me any longer I will dissolve into a state of bondage, yet it is
You that I want!
I pray that the breaking
of this darkness will finally allow me to experientially encounter your love in
all its soothing faithfulness, because I have chosen to trust You without
caution, without reserve. I am relying
on You and no other. I also pray that
You will cause me to intimately know which course and mission I should set my
heart to desire and act upon, because I am bringing my soul to You as an
offering, as a sacrifice. I am investing
my identity, purpose and abilities completely in You and no other.
My life is Yours.
I pray that You will
plunder the strongholds of Satan because he is the nemesis of Your quality of
life in me, the enemy of my very soul; plunder the cancerous addictions,
degeneration and lies he has grown in me with the ardor of Your love, with the
transformation of Your holiness, and with the living blade of Your truth. Plunder every stronghold of evil in my life
and strip their remains from me, for I am burrowing myself into Your
righteousness with all my strength and nothing evil can coexist with Your goodness
in me – it has to be one or the other, and I choose You, my heavenly Lord and
Master.
God,
I ask that You teach me to become an expert at pleasing You, for You are my
Ruler and I love being under Your wings.
I ask that Your beautiful Spirit will lead me on Your straight and narrow
way, set apart from the rutted misery of the world’s confusion.
O God of all healing,
for the purpose of increasing Your renown, live in my life and through my life
in order to save it and remold it to Your preference. Lord, I pray that You make an appearance in my
affliction out of Your heart that is just and honestly good, in all Your
holiness, and carry me away from these anguishing straits of spiritual
privation that Satan has deceived me into entering.
Because
You are a God overflowing with deeds of kindness, beauty, mercy, unwavering
love, favor and sheer goodness, I passionately pray that You exterminate the
intimidating, unholy, unloving emotions I am experiencing. Annihilate the perfect entirety of the
feelings and tendencies I have that harass my ability to receive Your peace,
that attack my trust in You, that pressure me to not surrender to You because
You are who I belong to, I am bound to You, I am Yours.
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