I stumbled across this prayer that I wrote a few weeks ago when I was looking back through my old journal entries and I felt that it really encompasses what I am asking for from the Lord and also what He is teaching me so I figured it would be a good blog entry to share with you all….
I thank you so much that you promise you are retuning God and that you call me to be doing your work, I pray that you would be using me God. I commit to you, I say “yes”. I do not want to be “sleeping” when you return Lord. (Mark 13:37) God teach me of your ways, quiet my soul to hear when you are speaking. God I ask you to please fill me with the Holy Spirit and rid my heart of anything that is holding me back from receiving the wonderful plans you have for my life. I thank you and praise you for CHOOSING unworthy people like me. I thank you for still doing miracles today and I pray that my eyes would be open to notice when miracles are happening all around me. God, thank you so much for answering my prayers about my future. Thank you for calling me home this summer, Lord please start preparing my heart and the hearts of my friends and family that you want to use me to speak through. God I thank you so much for the incredible gift you give me in allowing me to be included in sharing the greatest news ever told, I thank you that I am not NECESSARY but instead CHOSEN. God please fill me with a Spirit of boldness, because I know and proclaim that a Spirit of fear and timidity isn’t from you, so it will NOT be true of me. God I want only the things you want for me, I want the lies that Satan tells me to be silenced and I know that you will, so thank you! Let your desires be mine and rid me of my selfish desires. God take them away! I know you are enough, so I lay everything else at the foot of the cross. God I pray you would take my life and do with it more than I could ever imagine or comprehend because I know you can God today, tomorrow, always, I am willing, use me! Thank you for intrusting me with this life but I now understand that it is not my own, help me to get rid of any sense of ownership. Everything I have, all that I am is only because I have a gracious, merciful Savior! I deserve DEATH, but you chose to give me LIFE, so may I truly surrender it to you. Thank you for thinking so highly of me Jesus. I am sorry for the many times that I think I know better than my all- knowing Savior and Daddy. Please renew my childlike faith, make me whole!
“My sheep recognize my voice. I know them, and they follow me. I give them REAL and ETERNAL life. They are protected from the Destroyer for good. No one can steal them from out of my hand. The Father who put them under my care is so much greater than the Destroyer and Thief. No one could ever get them away from Him. I and the Father are one heart and mind.”
-John 20:26-30 (MSG)
