a broken heart

Only God can change people's hearts, only He can give them truth and clarity, only He can transform them. Dear Lord, I pray that truth reign in the people's lives around me. I pray that you would reveal Yourself to those who are blind and beaten up by the world and its sin and reveal to them their own sin and desperate need for your love. I pray that You would continue to humble me to Yourself and continue to look to You for every strength. I pray that You would mold my heart and create my motives and shape my actions and that I would glorify, honor and point to You with my life. I pray that Your glory would overshadow my deeds. Your will be done.

an ever-changing heart

Thank you for the glory of your morning, for the dawn of a new day; a day to enjoy the blessings you have placed in my life and the excitement that uncertainty brings, yet with the faith that you have given to me with the strength of Your Spirit You have placed inside of me. My Father in heaven may You guide my thoughts and my actions and the way I live my life. I pray for Your Spirit to not only dwell, but live in me for Your honor and Your glory--I pray that You would continue to grow this surrendering of myself to You. The freedom that I know You have blessed me with lately has been so encouraging and exciting and true. I love being more honest with myself and not letting the eyes of the world affect how I love You. By Your grace and strength You have opened this little heart up to experiencing Your love in a more abundant and true way which has created a freedom to share Your love with others more openly--unashamed and unabashed. Your abiding and abounding love for me, yes little me--whom You've created and formed before the dawn of time and placed Your Holy Spirit in, is allowing me to live more honestly in Your presence. I pray that You would continue to draw me in closer to You, Lord and draw me out for Your glory so that Your name be praised and glorified and people would come to know You. I pray that the creation of my life would fulfill Your purposes and that I would allow You to reign in my heart and that my life would be an expression and exhalation of Your love and work in my life. Dear Lord, I pray that I might live in undivided devotion to You and that Your honor & glory will be manifested in my life for the purposes of Your will. I pray that the purpose of my life would be for Your glory and that you would be the source of my strength and freedom and that Your love for me and my love for You would proclaim Your truth and bless others.

Philippians 2:13
It is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

Psalm 32:8
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you.

1 Cor. 10:13

...God is faithful and he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Luke 11:9-10
"So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

1 Chronicles 16:11
Seek the LORD and His strength; seek His face continually.

Psalm 37:4 & 7
Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass ... Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him.

Psalm 27:1
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Isaiah 41:10
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

1 Peter 4:11
If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.