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Lord, I rebuke all desires of my flesh, all deceitfulness of my heart and all thoughts contrary to You. I want to get closer to You.
I have realized that my thoughts come from my heart. Therefore, I must present a clean heart to You. I must examine my heart daily so that I may not sin against You. I need to be unblemished before You. The enemy’s attack is on the things that I do. These become sin because they occupy my existence so that I do not focus on You. I must prepare my heart so that in every thought, every moment, every action, I am cognizant of You. I must realize that the longer I go between each moment of recognizing You in my existence, I am slipping and am inviting separation from You. I pray, right now Lord, that all of me be in submission to You. Help me overcome my flesh, heart and thoughts.
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I am seeking to be, as much as possible, a good servant of You, Lord. In my life, I have gone astray. I am seeking to lead a life that is down the narrow path of The Way. There are many distractions that can move me from the right path. I must be strong and stay on it.
O Lord, give me the strength to ensure that I stay on the right path. I desire not to sin against You. As I deepen my relationship with You, I realize that so much of what I have done and sought was vain. I desire not to be vain. Put the right things in my heart. Take away the impurities of vain living. Help me, Lord. Let me know what is right for me and let me pursue it. Please don’t let me be deceived. The deception leads to misery in the end. Thank You for Your wisdom. Dear Lord,
Increase my desire to walk with You more. I want to know the fullness of Your glory. I want to know the power of Your resurrection in my life. Your life was to give it so that others can have life more abundantly. Christians are now Your body on earth. Christians must do what You would do if You were on Earth. Having this realization, I want, Lord, to be part of Your body. I want to participate in what You are doing by giving others abundant life. Lord, I feel that I am now ready to accept the calling to go out and give others abundant life through You. Let me not look back at where I was, but let me look forward to what will happen. Lord, I believe, without a shadow of a doubt, that You have brought me for this purpose. I receive it. Let me be strong in accepting my mission. You will set my steps for me to be in You. I submit myself to You. O Lord, I must learn to praise You. After having life with all I can ask for, I must learn what to do next. I feel that there is still a hunger in me that must be quenched. I am resolved now to seek what I need to do now . I feel that it is to fulfill my mission from Luke 4:18. This gives me satisfaction.
Lord, I ask now, that You give the desire to do what I should be doing. Let me know each season. In the season of calm, I realize that it is a time for prayer and praise. Right now, I want to praise You. I want to know all of your excellencies. I want to bow down to Your authority over me. In light of the calm and comfort You provide, I want to pray and thank You. Thank You. Lord, I know that You take care of me. You are involved in every aspect of my life, my coming and going, my awaking and sleeping, my total existence. I want to recognize more of Your presence in my existence. I want to recognize You in all things I do, say and think. I want to recognize You every moment of the day, even while I sleep.
Let not one moment pass when I am not conscious of Your presence. By being aware of You in this manner, I know that only good can come of it. I will seek to know You more. Dear Lord,
I recognize that I am very vulnerable at all times. I can stumble easily to the wickedness, deception and weight of sin. I realize that anything that separates me from seeking You is sin. I realize, now, that the deception is “business”: The act of continually doing things; being busy. Because of staying busy, one loses the sight and yearning for You. This “business” becomes sin because it acts as an obstacle to getting closer to You. If I am to remain close and get closer to You, I must either not be involved in “business” of be involved on the periphery and have strict guidelines on devotion to You. Thank You, Lord, for revealing this deception of “business” to me. I realize, now, that I seek to be more involved in “business,” I am actually seeking to get farther from You. O Lord, have mercy on me. Lord, thank You. Thank You for allowing me to have and enjoy the most important aspects of life.
Of most importance is having a relationship with You. I am realizing that I can actually let go of so many things about which I used to worry. I am realizing that the more I trust in You, my life becomes less complex and I can enjoy it much more. In fact, You do more for me, by just trusting, than I can do by troubling myself with worry and exerting energy in trying to get something done. I thank You for letting me have this confidence. Secondly, I thank You for my family. You allow me to reap the benefits of having children and a woman of my flesh. I get to enjoy their presence and very many of their joys. As they have joy and happiness in life, I have joy. I realize that this can only be from You. Thank You. Another important blessing from You is Your protective hedge around me. I thank You that I do not have ill circumstances that trouble me and my family. Such circumstances could be any emotional, physical or mental sickness, oppressing forces, or debilitating circumstances. My circumstances are minor, not requiring worry over them. Thank You. I would like to thank You for showing me that You are constantly moving in my life. I want to thank You for giving me the wisdom about establishing my way and You directing my paths.
I now know, Lord, that I cannot establish or direct my paths, or steps. It is only You who can do this. My duty is to establish my Way. My Way is to love You and keep Your commandments. If I abide in this Way, You will establish everything that will and can happen to me. Forgive me, Lord, for previously trying to establish my steps and not having my Way established in You. I realize that if my Way is not in You, I cannot produce fruit. I want to acknowledge, Lord, that as I commit my complete self to You, You will go beyond what I can think of as the best outcome of the situation. I realize that when I am thinking that You are not intervening and directing situations (as I would like to think that You should be doing according to Your Word), You are actually right making things happen for me.
As I grow in You, I must learn to trust and obey Your Word. It does not matter what I see, think, feel or hear; all that matters is what Your Word says. I realize that I can only trust in Your unfathomable Word this way when I can stand with a clean conscience before You. My conscience is clean when I am not in sin. I am not in sin when I have a broken heart and contrite spirit over any sin that I have committed against You and when I am not willfully committing sin. O Lord, take me to where You want me to be as I continue to faithfully trust in You. O Lord, I need to submit and resubmit my all to You. I give You permission, Lord, to take everything that I have and everything that I am for Your will. O Lord, search me, and bring to light anything, no matter how small, that is thwarting any of my growth in You. Whatever is found, please give me the strength to remove it.
I am seeking, Lord, to become humbler. I want You to take control of my thoughts, words and behaviors. Implant in me the direction You want me to go and the things You want me to do. Let me put all folly aside. Let me grow in You. Let me be used by You for Your desire. I yield my will to You. I know no other way. I know this is the best way for me: to be Your vessel. Lord, help me to trust in You. Give me the strength to put my faith in action, resulting in my resting in You. Lord, please put an angel to care for my mouth and responses that I make. I trust, Lord, that You will take good care of me. |
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