Prayer
Dear Lord Jesus,
We are painfully aware of our need for Your grace to help us understand the hardness of our hearts—hardened by our pride and self-centeredness. Please create in us a thirst that will overcome all fears that keep us from an all-out surrender to Your will. Deliver us from the urge to fight for our rights, prestige, power and position. Help us to know that being under Your yoke is the way for us to know You intimately and to touch godliness.
The spirit of Lucifer has so often deceived us to rebel against You and Your authority over us. We acknowledge with true repentance that we have hurt You and made You sad by our thoughts and actions. Satan, our flesh and the world have blinded our eyes from seeing Your eternal purpose through our life of submission. We are truly sorry for our sin of rebellion and repent of it.
Please help us comprehend the blessedness of being Your lambs. Remind us so we never forget: When we are called to suffer, we are given the privilege to enter into Your suffering and thus become more like You in Your humility and lowliness.
Lord, we choose to trust You so completely with our future. Our earnest desire is to honor You above the opinions of others, our feelings and our ambitions.
May we live in total obedience and submission as You lived before Your Father. Amen.
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