A prayer as you enter this week, a new season, or stay put right where you are. May you cultivate a heart of contentment and gratitude in the joys, the struggles, the ordinary. I offer this to you to live fully in the present, not looking over past mistakes or future worries. Jesus said today’s troubles are enough. He gives you peace, He is your peace.
Father,
Keep Your Beloved humble, aware of Your set and unfailing love over us.
Let our love for You continue to grow as the hope we have in Jesus becomes deeply rooted to the very core of our being.
May our spirits be inseparable with Yours so that others can’t tell where one ends and the other begins.
Transform these restless, half-hearted desires to love what You love.
Let our private worship be the same as our public adoration.
We pray to never be ashamed, but always willing and ready to share the blessed hope that is ours through Your Son, Jesus Christ.
Give us urgency in the Gospel for souls that are lost, wandering, angry, indulgent, apathetic, asleep, dead.
We need compassion and patience toward their unbelieving hard hearts.
Help us remember that they cannot act contrary from their given nature.
All of us were once against You too, as objects of wrath.
We confess that the costly effects of our depravity often escape us, when we take our salvation for granted.
Forgive us when we become prideful because of our spiritual gain. Puffed up in knowledge without love. Given to our sentimentalism without doctrine.
Open the eyes of the blind. Give life to what is lifeless. Establish freedom and peace for those who have yet to taste the real thing.
Only You can move and redeem and transform.
Forgive us when we don’t live like You changed everything.
We are often distracted by the baubles of this world, choked by the trials, asleep to the needs of others.
Make Your family worthy of the calling: Image-Bearers and Ambassadors for Your Honor.
Help us remember all You have done for Your Bride –
You are rich in mercy,
Filled with grace,
Demonstrated untold kindness,
Faithful,
Pouring out Your love.
By Your power, in the Spirit’s strength, enable us to remember, imitate, remember.
We pray to be the most humble, grateful and joy-filled people in all the earth!
Let us live into the identity You created us for since the beginning of time.
Grace upon grace,
April
redeemed in grace 