April 13, 2017
My God…
My sweet sweet Savior…
Here I am…vivaciously petitioning for Your ear
Finding so much comfort in this moment that You are truly here…
Having conquered the grave in no more than 3 days…
Oh how I give You praise… for Your death and resurrection has afforded me this amazing grace
A grace to have faith that You are ALIVE and Fully present…and ever so attentive…
Therefore, I humbly come before Your throne … relinquishing all control…
Invigorated that I am not alone as I pray:
My sweet sweet Savior…
Here I am…vivaciously petitioning for Your ear
Finding so much comfort in this moment that You are truly here…
Having conquered the grave in no more than 3 days…
Oh how I give You praise… for Your death and resurrection has afforded me this amazing grace
A grace to have faith that You are ALIVE and Fully present…and ever so attentive…
Therefore, I humbly come before Your throne … relinquishing all control…
Invigorated that I am not alone as I pray:
Dear Lord,
Be The Resurrector and The Life for Everyone Whom You Have Predestined for Adoption…
Secure our hearts in the legitimacy of our justification. We are cleansed by Your blood-bought sacrifice… not because of our own perceived righteousness but because of Your perfected righteousness… therefore, we need no longer walk in condemnation. Your children are free to rest in their adoption.
Be The Resurrector and The Life for Those Who Walk in Unrepented Sin…
Break down our pride and all the walls we’ve built up inside. Open our eyes to the things that make Your heart cry. Revitalize our sensitivity to the magnitude of sin and restore our conscience to repulse from that which leads to death. Empower us to put to death the deeds of the body. Your children are free to live in purity.
Be The Resurrector and The Life for Those Who Actively Wage War Against the Multitude of Temptations That Promise to Provide That Which They Cannot…
RELEASE in the name of Jesus our affections from things that build self-sufficiency, self-centeredness, self-gratification, and increased idolatry. Guide our hearts to joyfully glorify You in our hope-filled devotion to Your statutes and laws. Your children are free to live obediently.
Be The Resurrector and The Life for Those who Feel Utterly Alone, Broken, and Ashamed…
In Christ, we are awakened by The Truth that we are found and not alone, healed and not broken, and redeemed from feeling shame. Increase our assurance that our emotions are not decisively a representation of our reality. Your children are free from an existence of desolation.
Be The Resurrector and The Life for Those Who Reject Your Lordship Over Their Lives…
Open their spiritual vision so they may see the wonderful reality of Your manifested love and purposes for them. Sift through every falsehood and unfounded presumption that bounds their hearts in fear, threatening for continued control of their life. Your children are free to trust You with every part of themselves.
Be The Resurrector and The Life for the People Groups Who Have Yet to Hear Your Name…
Send legions of young people with the energy and Christ-centered empathy for this virtuous work. Awaken the generosity of financially blessed individuals to equip these young people for this missional work. Prepare the hearts of these people groups to encounter YAHWEH; God most high. Your children are free to sacrificially give their lives to people groups around the world.
Be The Resurrector and The Life for the Pastors, Elders, and Ministry Leaders Who Exhaust Themselves Under the Weight of Kingdom Work and Perfectionism…
Remind Your faithful children that though they have been entrusted with this good work, the results are not meant to terminate on them. Bring to remembrance that You are the agent of redemption…not them. Reposition their hearts into the saving knowledge that You are not in the business of saving the world at the cost of them. Grant assurance in their hearts that it is OK to sometimes not be OK. Your children are free to live in the very grace that they preach.
Be The Resurrector and The Life for the Churches That Are Spiritually Dying and Feel the Weight of Their Proverbial Paralysis…
Quicken the Holy Spirit into the center-most portions of the leadership and reveal Your unquestionable desire and direction for them as they carry out Your purposes for the house of worship. Restore their worship gatherings if it is pleasing in Your sight…but grant them confidence if closure is a part of Your purposes. Your children are free to follow you in the desert.
Be The Resurrector and The Life for Superficially Successful Churches Who Don’t Know They Are ALREADY Dead…
Cause a holy discontentment to permeate throughout church leadership when ankle-deep maturity of the Saints is seen as conclusionary to their aim. Bring leadership into repentance by the weight of their wrongheaded motivations no matter how beautiful they appear externally. Re-calibrate their mission to mold disciples into deep waters of maturity. Your children are free to rightly fear Your name again!
Be The Resurrector and The Life for Those Who Know to do Right but Willfully Choose to do Wrong…
Open our eyes to the things that make Your heart cry. Help us to perceive and evaluate the catastrophic consequences and ripple effects of a heart that willfully disobeys that which aims to set us free. Stimulate our affections once again to find satisfaction in pleasing You above and beyond all things. Your children are free to brazenly pursue righteousness.
Be The Resurrector and The Life for Those Who Have Been Given SO Much but Selfishly Sacrifice SO Little…
Loosen us in the name of Jesus from self-centered living. May we run towards opportunities to provide for those in the most dire of circumstances. Rekindle our mindset to receive satisfaction through the compensation of a cheerful heart that gives despite personal cost. Provide a spirit of creativity and opportunities to pour out our lives beyond the dollar. Your children are free to be image bearers of Your wide-spectrum of generosity.
Be The Resurrector and The Life for Every Family Who Will Have No Food on Their Table Nor Place to Rest Their Head This Evening…
Fill their earthly hunger with a type of spiritual food that will aid them through their hardship. Shelter them with Your unbounded love from the calamities of a broken physical world. Revive their hope that You will keep Your commitments to provide their daily bread despite what they presently experience. Your children are free to wait confidently for Your rescue.
Be The Resurrector and The Life for Those Whose Decisions Have Positioned Them in Prison…
May they categorically mourn not only their acts of evil but the root in their heart in which the sin was birthed from. Cause their grief to usher them into Your presence and may they be restored so comprehensively that their inner joy would overwhelm even the darkness of their solitary confinement. May they be beacons of light for inmates and law enforcement all around. Your children are free to love themselves again.
Be The Resurrector and The Life for Those Who Are Suffering Immeasurably With Disease, Injury, and Sickness…
RESCUE them in the name of Jesus from hopelessness and purposelessness by the sweetly~challenging power of Your Scripture. May they meditate day and night upon Your precepts to the degree their personal suffering demands. Be their chief advocate as they navigate the complexities of their ailments. May they know that even death has been conquered; therefore it is not end of the Bible-Believing Christian[+]. May they find peace that despite being grossly misunderstood by man, they are exhaustively known by You! Your children are free to collapse as frequently as needed on the bosom of their Savior.
Be The Resurrector and The Life for the Multitude of Marriages That Are On the Brink of Collapse…
Eradicate the insatiable appetite for spouses to be “right” and transition their hunger to imagine and act upon ways to die for each other. May You elevate their understanding of marriage in light of eternity so they may unite for Your purposes. Cause the supremacy of mission of the Gospel to be so central to their fabric of life that their laundry list of faults and personal differences would be washed away. Your children are free to heal and lead powerful marriages!
Be The Resurrector and The Life For Oppressed Children Around the World…
You are most near to the vulnerable around the world. Therefore, send legions of rescuers through spiritual principalities, ordinary people, and zealous warriors of godly love to battle back against darkness. Remind your children that You are ACTIVE in Your judgment against the evil doers and unwavering in Your resolve to protect and free them from their circumstances. Your children are free to imagine and hope for a world where they are not oppressed and taken advantage of. May they never lose hope.
Be The Resurrector and The Life for Those Whose Lives Have Been Marked By the Sin of Others Resulting in Great Tragedy…
I pray that we would find great comfort in serving a God that allows us to present the full weight of our anger and heartache towards the perpetrator as well as the circumstances. But may You transition their anger in Your infinite timing and wisdom into a transformative power that allows them to be an agent of undeserved grace and forgiveness. May their comfort come from reflecting Your Son to a world that will be flabbergasted by in “other-worldly” type of response to the tragedy. Help them and heal them day by day. Your children are free to rest in your judgment of evil.
Be The Resurrector and The Life For Those Who Struggle to Exist After the Death of A Loved One…
Comfort them in the innermost chambers over their sorrow. Transition them in Your infinitely wise timing to find gratitude for memories they have and focus for the memories that need to be created for their future. Challenge them in a way that only You can…remind them that by virtue of the air in their lungs, they must LIVE purposefully for all the days of their life. May their sorrow for the dead not consume them to the point of sinful stagnancy…teach them to live beyond the grave. Your children are free to move forward.
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Be The Resurrector and The Life in such a way that our joy would be so saturated in the beautifully-sweet reality of our divine adoption…May we be so awakened into the fullness of life in you,that we desire to display Your glory to the would around us. Help us to Aim Our Affections to Supremely Value the Supremely Valuable in YOU!
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