My Daily Prayer

I (individually and corporately) want to be known by God and the world as a person with “this one mark – completely yielded to God’s will.” This is made possible “through His wonderful Holy Spirit, primarily His indwelling presence. . . . .  His holy presence consciously abiding in us, and through Him we continually walk with God and hear His voice.    . . . . even unto death.” Through this and in faith (with “it” being His will)
"I see it
I desire it
I expect it
I accept it
I trust Christ for it"  (quotes from Andrew Murray, A Life of Obedience)
Finally, from Frances Ridley Havergal’s My King devotional
“It is when the King has really come in peace to his own home in the “contrite and humble spirit” . . . . when He has entered in to make His abode there – that the soul is satisfied with Him alone. It all hinges upon Jesus coming into the heart as His own house. For if there are some rooms of which we do not give up the key, some little sitting room which we would like to keep as a little mental retreat, with a view from the window, which we do not quite want to give up – some lodger whom we would rather not send away just yet – some little dark closet which we have not resolution to open and set to rights – of course the King has not yet full possession; it is not all and really His own . . .  Only throw open all the doors, “and the King of Glory shall come in, “ and then there will be no craving for other guests. He will fill this house with glory and there will be no place left for gloom.”

 Lord, I give You every room (and nook and cranny) in me, and when there may be a portion which I have forgotten to submit to You, show me. 

Amen
mike hearne

The Prayer of St. Francis

My oldest granddaughter gave me a bookmark as a gift on Christmas morning and it touched my heart as a prayer to be prayed and lived out as a Normal Christian.

The Prayer of St. Francis
Lord, make us instruments of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let us sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is discord, union;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

Grant that we may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.

This simple prayer is attributed to St. Francis of Assissi.

A Prayer in Jude

A prayer from Jude to the brothers and sisters in Christ and to the Lord.

Jude 1:20 -25 (The Message)
20 But you, dear friends, carefully build yourselves up in this most holy faith by praying in the Holy Spirit,
21 staying right at the center of God's love, keeping your arms open and outstretched, ready for the mercy of our Master, Jesus Christ. This is the unending life, the real life!
22 Go easy on those who hesitate in the faith.
23 Go after those who take the wrong way. Be tender with sinners, but not soft on sin. The sin itself stinks to high heaven.
24 And now to him who can keep you on your feet, standing tall in his bright presence, fresh and celebrating -
25 to our one God, our only Savior, through Jesus Christ, our Master, be glory, majesty, strength, and rule before all time, and now, and to the end of all time. Yes.

Prayer

Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Devotional – Oct. 8, Evening
Jude 20: Praying in the Holy Ghost.
Mark the grand characteristic of true prayer-"In the Holy Ghost." The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven's storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God. We must shoot the Lord's arrows back to Him. That desire which He writes upon our heart will move His heart and bring down a blessing, but the desires of the flesh have no power with Him.
. . . praying in fervency.
It means praying humbly, . . . .
. . . we pray to God De profundis: out of the depths must we cry, . . .
It is loving prayer. Prayer should be perfumed with love, saturated with love-love to our fellow saints, and love to Christ.
Moreover, it must be a prayer full of faith. A man prevails only as he believes. The Holy Spirit is the author of faith, and strengthens it, so that we pray believing God's promise.

My prayer is for all to prayer in Spirit with fervency, humbly, out of the depths, lovingly and full of faith. Amen.