Help Me!!!
I’ve not been writing anything for this blog for sometime now due to my busyness and tiredness. Partly from the strain of getting into the full role and responsibility with full-time ministry, partly from my almost "drying up" of the intake from the fountain of life.I’ve been following a series of devotional and there are some prayers that came with it that depicts my current situation. I’ve rearranged it into one long prayer that I’ve made to God.
Heavenly Father,
I feel like weeping too when I consider how little of my life I streamlined for kingdom purpose. Help me to be willing to be hitched to a plough and know the joy of sacrifice
It is your purposes I want to achieve, not my own. Whenever my own self-centered plans are crossed, help me to discover Your better plans.
You who knew what it was to wince when wounded, help me remember that Your wounds can heal my wounds. Grant also that my wounds might heal someone else’s wounds. May my hurts be healing.
Help me identify the tension points in my life and be willing to surrender them. May I let go of them all.
When some earthly goods is taken away and I am left feeling bereft, help me to see the hidden ‘better’. Fortify my soul with this expectation I pray.
How I need to be reminded of this – that life is designed to be lived a day at a time. Help me understand the deep import of all this.
Help me understand that no failure is a failure if it succeeds in driving me to God’s side. All things serve me – when I serve You.
Help me to face my failure in the knowledge that some good can be wrested from even the most depressing circumstances. Help me to be incisive in my question and to expect from You incisive answers.
Help me to link my littleness to Your greatness, my faintheartedness to Your boldness, my fear to Your faithflness. Then nothing can stop me. In that frame of mind I will pick myself up and try again.
Help me this day and everyday of my life from now on to make generosity the basis of all my dealings with people. Make me the channel and not the dead end of all Your generosity to me.
In Jesus’ Holy, Precious and Wonderful name.
AMEN! (Edited: From “Every Day with Jesus Nov/Dec 2005”)
posted by Dan of DanAnn @ 5:04 pm
2 Comments:
dun need worry la dude.
God will bring us thru life up and down. yay?
hey bro, guess thats life... got its up and downs.. expecially when dealing with people, u never know whats they are thinking, and as far as i dun wan to admit it, Christians are the worst critics and for some, even worse hypocrite.. well, God is here for us. and we are only accountable to Him and Him alone.. He knows what we are going thru and remember light shines the brightest in the darkness. Jia You!
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