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With a Prayer
By Trevin Wax on Jan 8, 2012
With a prayer You fed the hungry,
With a cry You stilled the storm;
With a look You had compassion
On the desperate and forlorn.
With a touch You healed the leper,
With a shout You raised the dead;
With a word expelled the demons,
With a blessing broke the bread.
Love incarnate, love divine,
Captivate this heart of mine
Till all I do speaks of You.
As a sheep before the shearer
You were silent in Your pain;
You endured humiliation
At the hands of those You’d made.
And as hell unleashed its fury
You were lifted on a tree,
Crying ‘Father God, forgive them,
Place their punishment on Me.’
Love incarnate, love divine,
Captivate this heart of mine
Till all I do speaks of You.
I will feed the poor and hungry,
I will stand up for the truth;
I will take my cross and follow
To the corners of the earth.
And I ask that You so fill me
With Your peace, Your power, Your breath,
That I never love my life so much
To shrink from facing death.
Love incarnate, love divine,
Captivate this heart of mine
Till all I do speaks of You.
- Stuart Townend - With A Prayer (Love Incarnate)
Monday: Wash Day
Lord, help me wash away all my selfishness and vanity, so I may serve you with perfect humility through the week ahead.
Tuesday: Ironing Day
Dear Lord, help me iron out all the wrinkles of prejudice I have collected through the years so that I may see the beauty in others.
Wednesday: Mending Day
O God, help me mend my ways so I will not set a bad example for others.
Thursday: Cleaning Day
Lord Jesus, help me to dust out all the many faults I have been hiding in the secret corners of my heart.
Friday: Shopping Day
O God, give me the grace to shop wisely so I may purchase eternal happiness for myself and all others in need of love.
Saturday: Cooking Day
Help me, my Savior, to brew a big kettle of brotherly love and serve it with clean, sweet bread of human kindness.
Sunday: The Lord’s Day
O God, I have prepared my house for you. Please come into my heart so I may spend the day and the rest of my life in Your presence.
–Author Unknown
Prayer in the Midst of the Storm (Kingdom People)
By Guest Blogger on Jul 16, 2011
O God, make speed to save us.
We have sinned, O Lord, we have sinned, spare our sins,
And save us; Thou who guidedst Noah over the flood waves,
Hear us; Who with Thy word recalledst Jonah from the abyss;
Deliver us; Who stretchedst forth Thy hand to Peter as he sank, help us,
O Christ Son of God, Thou didst the marvelous things of the Lord with our fathers, be favourable in our days also;
Stretch forth Thy hand from on high.
Deliver us, O Christ.
Hear us, O Christ.
-Stowe Missal, 9th Century A.D
The Wedding Prayer
Create in us a love, O Lord.
An eternal love …
Your love.
A love that forgives
any failure,
spans
any distance,
withstands
any tempest.
Create in us a love, O Lord.
A new love.
A fresh love.
A love with the tenderness
of a lamb,
the grandeur
of a mountain,
the strength
of a lion.
And make us one. Intimately one.
As you made a hundred colors into one sunset,
A thousand cedars into one forest,
and countless stars into one galaxy …
make our two hearts as
one,
Father, forever …
that you may be praised, Father,
forever.
From Shaped by God (original title: On the Anvil)
Copyright (Tyndale House, 1985, 2002) Max Lucado
This is our great prayer, and we crown it with this: Come Lord Jesus, come, and do not wait! Come in the fullness of Your power and splendor of Your glory! Come quickly. Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus (Revelation 22:20)
Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On by Bishop Ricky Sinclair
Ezekiel 30-32; I Peter 4
June 10, 2011
“For there has already been enough time spent in doing the will of the pagans: carrying on in unrestrained behavior, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.” (I Peter 4:3)
“Now the end of all things is near; therefore, be clear-headed and disciplined for prayer. Above all, keep your love for one another at full strength, since love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another without complaining.” (4:7-9)
“For the time has come for judgement to begin with God’s household; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God? And if the righteous is saved with difficulty, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner? So those who suffer according to God’s will should, in doing good, entrust themselves to a faithful creator.” (4:17-19)
It’s time out for foolishness. You know, we’ve all had plenty of time to do what we wanted to do before we gave our lives to Jesus. Now is the time to take our commitment seriously. There is a shaking taking place in God’s house. Anything that can be shaken loose will be. If you’re hanging in there, now would be a great time to start lining out those areas that don’t measure up to God’s standards.
God is a good God and He’s not going to permit half-stepping on His team. He’ll never give you more than you can bear and He’ll never expect more than you can give. So many times we set the bar so low for ourselves that we have no challenges. Come on, rise up. You can do this. It’s life or death.
Some may say that the Bible has said that the end is near for the last two thousand years and that may be, but God is not slack concerning His promises the way men think in terms of slacking. But rather, He is longsuffering, giving people an opportunity to repent. It really doesn’t matter what particular date the end of the world comes, if you are hit by a truck tomorrow or die of a heart attack tonight, then the end came for you. Death is a constant reminder of our mortality. Death and the shaking of circumstances are a great way to keep our flesh dead and our spirit man alive. Let that fleshly wild man go and get wild for Jesus. Pray deep, live hard and love unashamedly.
PRAYER:
Lord, thank you for shaking up your people. It’s kind of scary but I know that it is done in love to cause us to examine ourselves and to get right those areas that aren’t. You are a good daddy and I appreciate you helping us to walk the line. If you didn’t deal with us then we would be no different from the world. I love you Lord and I ask you to help us get ourselves right in your eyes. In the name of Jesus I pray, amen.
Heavenly Father, according to your promises I pray these prayers in the Name and the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ:
Dear Holy Spirit, keep me abiding in Jesus. Also, make God’s Word to live and abide in Me. Then you promise that I shall ask what I desire, and it shall be done for me. I want all my prayers to be answered. (John 15.7)
“Oh, that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that your hand would be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that I may be free from pain.” So God granted him what he requested. 1Chr 4:10
Lord, fill me now and always with the Holy Spirit. I open my heart to yield to the Holy Spirit. Eph 5.18
Lord, make me consider myself really dead to sin. Rom 6.11
Father, form Christ in me. I want Christ to dwell in my heart through faith, and live in me always. Gal. 2.20; Gal. 4:19; Eph 3:17
Thank You Father that through faith I am the righteousness of God in Christ. 2Cor 5.21
Thank You Father that my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in me, whom I have from God. Make me always conscious of this fact. 1Cor 6.19
Thank You Father that I am an ambassador for Christ. Make me a good ambassador for Your Kingdom. 2Cor 5.20
Dear Holy Spirit, show me how to overcome the devil by the blood of the Lamb, and by the Word of my testimony, and to not love my life to the death. Rev 12.11
Open Our Eyes to See Jesus…
By Trevin Wax
How constrained is our vision,
how inadequate our words,
how paltry our love for you, Lord God,
in the wake of all that you have done,
in the wake of all that you have disclosed of yourself in your Son through your Word.
Fill our hearts with joy
that we may not only be ashamed of sin and loathe it,
but also that we may be drawn to your own dear Son,
to holiness, to transparent love for one another -
all secured by Christ and his work on the cross on our behalf.
Draw us on to the new heaven and the new earth
precisely because that will also make us better stewards of your grace here.
Grant that even now we may understand in our own experience
how the Holy Spirit is the deposit of the promised inheritance,
the anticipation of what will one day be.
Grant us the power to grasp,
together with all of God’s people,
the limitless dimensions of your love for us.
Shape our lives by gratitude and adoration.
Give us courage and stamina
and with it holy joy and a love for all that is holy.
Open our eyes to see Jesus,
the cost that he bore,
the grace that he pours out upon us,
until we are ravished by his beauty,
consumed by a heart full of adoration.
For Jesus’ sake,
Amen.
- D.A. Carson, The God Who Is There
My Dear Lord,
I can but tell Thee that Thou knowest I long for nothing but Thyself, nothing but holiness, nothing but union with Thy will. Thou hast given me these desires, and thou alone canst give me the thing desired.
My soul longs for communion with Thee, for mortification of indwelling corruption, especially spiritual pride. How precious it is to have a tender sense and clear apprehension of the mystery of godliness, of true holiness!
What a blessedness to be like Thee as much as it is possible for a creature to be like its creator! Lord, give me more of Thy likeness; enlarge my soul to contain fullness of holiness; engage me to live more for Thee.
Help me to be less pleased with my spiritual experiences, and when I feel at ease after sweet communings, teach me it is far too little I know and do. Blessed Lord, let me climb up near to Thee, and love, and long, and plead, and wrestle with Thee, and pant for deliverance from the body of sin, for my heart is wandering and lifeless, and my soul mourns to think it should ever lose sight of its beloved.
Wrap my life in divine love, and keep me ever desiring Thee, always humble and resigned to Thy will, more fixed on Thyself, that I may be more fitted for doing and-suffering.
(The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions, 127)
Pour Your Love into Our Souls
By Trevin Wax on Nov 28, 2010
O God,
Fountain of love,
pour your love into our souls,
that we may love those whom you love
with the love you have given us,
and think and speak of them tenderly, meekly, lovingly;
and so loving our brothers and sisters for your sake,
may grow in your love,
and dwelling in your love may dwell in you;
for Jesus Christ’s sake. Amen.
- E.B. Pusey, 1800-1882
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