Category: Prayer
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The Endlessness I Choose
O my God, this land is dry and barren. All around me is bleak, colorless, and listless. When I do find water, and drink of it, my thirst increases. When I lay my head to rest, weariness surrounds me with wretched foreboding. I look to You for comfort, and receive silence. I pray for relief,and…
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Prayer for Your Purpose
Dear Jesus:My plans – incessantly chattering away in my heart and mind – have kept me so deaf and so blind to Your purpose for me.I am begging You now to please take them all from me! Please grace me with all I need to let them go!Relieve me of all my selfish desires, greediness,…
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Your Way
To live in confidence ofYour Way – To love with the compassion of Your Heart – To know and experience others through Your Spirit – This is my only prayer today: Infiltrate my entire being withYour SpiritYour HeartYour Way.
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Prayer in Response*
I pray today formeekness, self-control in the face of adversity,andgentleness. These things cannot live in me without Your Grace, God. Grant them to me so I may better serve You and my fellows. Amen. *See Matthew 5:5
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I Am Peter
My feet – saturated with heavy sea waters My heart – pounding aloud fearful anxiety My eyes – distracted from the Savior come for me Oh, my burdens, they drench my soul Oh, my angst stretches over me Oh, my sight Your Light cannot see This is where I am on my own – alone…
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Lift Up My Eyes, Lord
The tops of my shoes, a blade of grass, fallen leave’s on autumn’s path – these things I know too well. Lift up my eyes, Lord, so I may see Your Love in the Smile of a child, in the Flight of a bird, in the Gaze of the other. I’m tired of looking down.
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Bewildered
How is it that she is so blind to what is right in front of her? How many times must he hear the truth spoken by those who know? When will the rebellion stop? When will the incessant need to be heard, to be revered, to be right, be dropped? Dear God – we are…
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Expectancy
With an expectancy I have never before experienced, I step out into this day, fully confident in the workings of my heart my mind and my soul through the Spirit of Jesus Christ, Who lives and breathes in me and through me. There is no unworthiness. There is no doubt. His light illumines my path.…
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Prayer for Truth
Dear God: Instill in me Your Truth – that whatever I deserve or don’t deserve matters not in Your calling to me. Through my relationship with Your Son, Jesus, You have made me new. This is all I need to know as I respond to Your call and follow. You will achieve in me and…
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What God Thinks About Me
Dear God: I pray that all that I do and say today be done and said in relationship to You. May it matter not what others think or say – may it matter only what Your eyes see in me and what Your heart knows about me.