Evolving Prayer

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The Evolving Prayer Started on April 5th 2010

God my Father thank you for this and every day. Help me to rejoice and be glad in it and all the days you give me. Each and every one is a gift from your hand. Help me not to squander this one or any of them. Let me use my time wisely. “This is the day the Lord hath made; I will rejoice and be glad in it.” (KJV). Lord, Incline my heart and engage my mind in actively seeking you daily. “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:13. Let this be my prayer and my goal. Thanking you for forgiving my sins seems so inadequate when I should be thanking you, praising you, exalting you for raising me from the dead. I was dead in my trespasses and sin. I was a dead man walking, but Jesus died for me, the just for the unjust and you called me, chose me and gave me the very faith I need to be saved. “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9. “But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, His son, purifies us from all sin.” 1st John 1:7. Jesus has saved me from my obvious blatant sins, secret sins, not so secret sins and sins that are buried so deep that they are secret from me and the sins that are future to me but present to you. In other words the blood of Jesus your Son purifies, gets rid of, takes away, annihilates ALL my sins; amazing grace indeed. Most amazing love, how can it be that you my God died for me? Why did you do it? I know that it is all of grace, but why did you even bother? You do not need us. You do not need me and yet you began the redemp...

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...obedience. “To obey is better than sacrifice.” 1st Samuel 15:22. Teach me what the death of or to self means. Show me what it means when Paul tells us to put on Christ and help me then to do it; “But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.” Romans 13:14 (NKJV). Help me not to compare myself with others as in a contest, but to follow Jesus with singleness of purpose and to measure myself by Him only. He is our only standard. He is the one we are to single-mindedly follow. “Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following them…when Peter saw him, he asked, “Lord, what about him?” Jesus answered…what is that to you? YOU must follow ME.” John 21:20-21. Amen, even so come quickly Lord Jesus.

Works Cited

New International Version of the Bible

New King James Version

The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis

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