Lord-
I praise you for your faithfulness and love. You are the only true one who can restore us and bring us into our true purposeful self. You are big and great Lord. I stand in your praises today because I have this sense of peace and love. You give us each a light and you are the one supplying the energy to run it. Thank you for your light and strength to shine it. Just like my light cannot shine by my will alone, God is the one that supplies the strength, means, and atmosphere. In Exodus 33, my favorite Bible passage, Moses talks to the Lord and says that if the Lord's presence does not go with them, then may the people not go up from the land. He asked God to reveal himself and his presence, and the Lord went beyond going with Moses in spirit. God put him in the cleft of the mountain and passed by so that Moses would see God's back.
That passage is my favorite because God not only goes with Moses, but God assures Moses that he will go and even reveals himself to Moses. God wants to do the same thing with me. He wants to fulfill my request to see him and tuck me into a situation that provides a view to his magnificence. Sometimes my various clefts are hard place (between a rock and a hard place -- jk!), but at other times it is a joyous cleft.
Lord thank you for the clefts and cracks. You are redeemer of broken things.
In Jesus name,
Amen
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Repentance
Lord-
You have overcome the world, but I still feel trapped sometimes by it. There is so much in our culture that is hard to face and avoid. Please take away the temptations that stare me down like a bull in a china shop. Once one item comes crashing down, I feel completely broken. I'm sorry for letting the cracks of sin invade my life a little bit at a time. Please show me your goodness and forgive me for wanting something temporary as a fix to my emotions. You gave us emotions, but this world just lives to feed them with the temporary and with things that taste good briefly. Please show me a world in you that is sweeter than anything offered by this world. I'm sorry. I lay down my guilty hands for you to correct me. "Thank you" is hard right now, but Jesus please overcome my feelings, emotions, and temptations.
Please...my flesh is so real that it hurts at times...often lately.
Lord, in your redeeming and forgiving name I cling and ask you to help me overcome,
Amen
You have overcome the world, but I still feel trapped sometimes by it. There is so much in our culture that is hard to face and avoid. Please take away the temptations that stare me down like a bull in a china shop. Once one item comes crashing down, I feel completely broken. I'm sorry for letting the cracks of sin invade my life a little bit at a time. Please show me your goodness and forgive me for wanting something temporary as a fix to my emotions. You gave us emotions, but this world just lives to feed them with the temporary and with things that taste good briefly. Please show me a world in you that is sweeter than anything offered by this world. I'm sorry. I lay down my guilty hands for you to correct me. "Thank you" is hard right now, but Jesus please overcome my feelings, emotions, and temptations.
Please...my flesh is so real that it hurts at times...often lately.
Lord, in your redeeming and forgiving name I cling and ask you to help me overcome,
Amen
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Writing on the Walls of Hearts
Lord-
Thank you for your faithfulness. Even in situations that feel like they are drowning me, you are there. Thank you for staying right beside me even when I feel sort of helpless. You are greater than my emotions. Thank you so much. You are giving me back the freedom in you. You are beautiful and you have made me see that. Lately I have been quietly and silently agonizing over getting a job. Lord you came through and provided me with one. Part of me wanted it far away from home, but I know that is just my reaction to run from hard things and uncomfortable things. I have been reading Do Hard Things by the Harris brothers, and you have been revealing to me that the hard things I see in front of me are things that you have put there for me to walk through. Right now it is not running but sitting and developing the calling you gave me to teach. Thank you for giving me a gift I love. May you please lead me to a place, a church, to serve and use my passion for you.
Also right now I have been listening to a new song by Todd Agnew called Written on the Wall. This is the chorus: I wish you still spoke through burning bushes. I wish you still wrote on blocks of stone. Cause the sound of this world's deafening, and I'm having a hard time listening. And I wish your will was still written on the wall.
Lord, this morning you surpassed these words and really gave me a word of encouragement. Even though you don't write on blocks of stone walls, you write on the walls of our hearts. Thank you for the words of peace, encouragement, and love that I have read lately on my heart. Thank you for your will, even if I don't know it. You are love and you are the only one that heal my frayed emotions at times. Thank you.
Please reignite the desire for you and your word again in me. My heart gets dulled and tarnished by the values of this culture and world. Please re-polish my heart and emotions to shine you and not the lies and distortions that this world and land write and record into our minds. My head is so full of this culture, that often I forget to talk to you sometimes. Please reapply your beauty. Sure, this culture, I have to live in, but you created me for something greater. Please give me words to write and may it touch lives, even just one. You have more plans than any man could even imagine.
Thank you Lord for your eternal love.
In Your Name,
Amen
Thank you for your faithfulness. Even in situations that feel like they are drowning me, you are there. Thank you for staying right beside me even when I feel sort of helpless. You are greater than my emotions. Thank you so much. You are giving me back the freedom in you. You are beautiful and you have made me see that. Lately I have been quietly and silently agonizing over getting a job. Lord you came through and provided me with one. Part of me wanted it far away from home, but I know that is just my reaction to run from hard things and uncomfortable things. I have been reading Do Hard Things by the Harris brothers, and you have been revealing to me that the hard things I see in front of me are things that you have put there for me to walk through. Right now it is not running but sitting and developing the calling you gave me to teach. Thank you for giving me a gift I love. May you please lead me to a place, a church, to serve and use my passion for you.
Also right now I have been listening to a new song by Todd Agnew called Written on the Wall. This is the chorus: I wish you still spoke through burning bushes. I wish you still wrote on blocks of stone. Cause the sound of this world's deafening, and I'm having a hard time listening. And I wish your will was still written on the wall.
Lord, this morning you surpassed these words and really gave me a word of encouragement. Even though you don't write on blocks of stone walls, you write on the walls of our hearts. Thank you for the words of peace, encouragement, and love that I have read lately on my heart. Thank you for your will, even if I don't know it. You are love and you are the only one that heal my frayed emotions at times. Thank you.
Please reignite the desire for you and your word again in me. My heart gets dulled and tarnished by the values of this culture and world. Please re-polish my heart and emotions to shine you and not the lies and distortions that this world and land write and record into our minds. My head is so full of this culture, that often I forget to talk to you sometimes. Please reapply your beauty. Sure, this culture, I have to live in, but you created me for something greater. Please give me words to write and may it touch lives, even just one. You have more plans than any man could even imagine.
Thank you Lord for your eternal love.
In Your Name,
Amen
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