Lord forgive me

Lord, of mercy and grace

Forgive me

Forgive me for not seeing that I am evil

Forgive me for believing in my own righteousness

Forgive me for not seeing that I am unable to fix my problems

Forgive me for not believing you are the only one who can fix my problems

Forgive me for not having a hunger and thirst for righteousness

Forgive me for not receiving from you the power to be righteous

Forgive me for my lack of passion to see your will done on earth as in heaven

Forgive me for passion to have my own will done

Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy on me a sinner.

Lord give me a passion for seeking you as the answer to everything in my life

Open my eyes to see your grace

Dear Lord and Leader of my life,

Life is more filled with chaos than I thought it would be.

There are so many things outside of my control.

There are so many needs to be prayed for and so many things to do.

It is hard to focus.

It is hard to not feel overwhelmed.

Lord help and hear my cry.

There is desperate need for your help.

I thank you for providing simple answers to simple prayers.

Signs of your care in the middle of difficult times.

Thank you for those signs of grace.

Open my eyes that I might see you working daily in my life.

I know you are at work but I also know I do not see it as I should.

Make me sensitive to your works of grace in my life.

Seeking godly hunger

Lord and Lover

Make me hunger and thirst after righteousness in the middle of this culture that denies that righteousness exists or is of value if it did. Help my tastes not become simply the tastes of the world.

Help me not to get distracted by the insanity. Insanity seems to become normal. Disorder seems to be more common than order. To seek sanity and order seems insane. Yet, I must not lose my vision of being sane. Lord, let me not accept insanity.

Lord, help me today to seek to become love. To become an incarnation of love. To become an incarnation of peace. So much insanity done in your name and by people who should be sane.

Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy

Prayer to the one greater than all my thoughts about HIM

Lord, Master, Friend, Lover, Creator, Maker, Wisdom, Love, Infinite,

Not enough words to capture you.

Never enough words to explain you.

You are beyond all my words and all my explanations.

You are THE OTHER - HOLY yet INTIMATE - in me, around, me, knowing me, without boundaries, there are no boundaries for you except those you make for yourself.

I am before you.

You know my needs.

They are big for me. They are small for you. They are big for you because they are big for me. You understand my small vision. You understand my small strength. I lift them to you and ask you to help me comprehend them from your point of view.

Forgive me my folly and moral failures. Being before you is hard for it always is that I fall short. Short of sanity, short of stability, and short of being one with you in thought and will. I fall short.

Forgive me for the sake of Jesus dying on the cross. Such profound words. Wild words. True words. My Messiah dying for me. How can it be? How serious sin must be. Help me see sin as serious. As crucifying.

Lord, I lift to you all the stuff of my life. The purpose and plans. The problems and pains. I give it all to you. Please help me and carry that which will crush me without you.

In Messiah's name

Amen

Seeking a resurrected faith

Lord of life and renewal

This is a time of thinking about your power over life and death.

You can defeat the final enemy.

You can create life and restore it.

You can breathe on dry bones and have them come alive.

Now, in this moment come and breathe on me.

I need new life.

I need new passion.

I need new hope.

I need new vision.

I need new energy.

I need you to breathe.

Without your breath I will turn to dust.

I am only dust without your breath in me.

Come Holy Spirit.

Fill me with your life.

Restore to me the deep desire for your kingdom.

Help me see your purpose in my life.

Lord have mercy and touch me.

Lord have mercy and encounter me.

Lord have mercy and embrace me.

Lord overcome death and give life once more.