My Creator -
You created Adam. You created me. Thank You for thinking of me ... planning me ... designing me ... molding me ... perfectly ... in Your image. I am honored. I am awed.
Your design ... Your work ... is perfect. I am very pleased with the way You made me. I will use this body ... this mind ... and this soul ... for Your glory.
You were in the beginning. You are now. You will be forever. You are the great I AM!
Father, you clothed Adam and Eve. Please clothe me with Your righteousness ... Your holiness ... Your love ... Your peace. Clothe me with Your Holy Son ... Jesus. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit. Insulate me. Set me apart for Your service.
I’m here to serve. I’m here to obey. I love You, and I am praying to You ... only through Jesus. Amen.
Lord of perfect justice and flawless judgment -
I believe Your Word. I believe in You. I believe there is nothing too complex or too difficult for You. You can right every wrong in my life. You can forgive my sin and replace it with righteousness and holiness. You can restore my soul.
I believe You listen to me, and I believe that my words are heard. I know that You hate sin. I know that You hate sin in me. Please destroy my sin, Father ... but please do not destroy me. I am nothing compared to You.
Defeat in me every evil intention ... every vile thought ... every derogatory word ... every unholy action ... every selfish plan ... everything hostile to You ... and wash me clean, pure and holy ... in the healing blood of Your Son, Jesus.
You have chosen me and prepared good works for me. Lead me gently, Great Shepherd, in a life that honors You. You can, because nothing is too hard for You. Hear my cry, oh Lord, through Jesus. Amen.
My Shepherd -
I love You. I love everything about You. My desire is to see Your face ... to live in Your presence forever.
Help me to know You so well in this life that I will recognize You ... know You ... and be found hidden in You on the great and terrible day of judgment.
I do not question Your authority. I do not resent Your guidance or Your discipline. I rejoice that You are my Master and my King. I seek You. I love You. I want to be just like You.
Mold me. Break me. Change me. Discipline me. Shape me. Do whatever it takes in Your divine knowledge and will to perfect Your love in me ... to teach me obedience to You ... to purify my heart ... to cleanse my soul ... so that I may enter Your presence ... pure, washed, clean and holy ... Your servant ... Your sheep ... Your son.
I will follow You, my Father ... my God.
Hear me through Jesus. Amen.
To the One Who sees and loves my heart -
I am amazed at how You work. As I read Your Word, I am thrilled that You use ordinary people to work Your will and Your way, for I am very ordinary ... very sinful. However, You are bigger ... and greater ... than my sin.
I know that I don’t have to earn the right to be included in Your plan with fancy abilities. I just have to be available ... wholly available.
Here I am, Lord! Mold me. Shape me. Use me for the glory of Your holy name. Be it unto me according to Your Word, oh Lord. I trust You with my life ... with my future ... with my eternity.
You have prepared a feast for me in the midst of my enemies. You have given me life. I give my life back to You. Only You can make it beautiful. Lord, make me like You. I’m praying through Your risen Son, Jesus. Amen.
Powerful God -
I need You. I need You more than the air that I breathe and the food that I eat. I could possess every great thing, but without You, it would all be nothing. Every day ... every moment ... every breath is a gift from You. Every fiber of my being is sustained by You.
You have composed my life, and what You have done is very good. Thank You for filling my life with song ... with Your song. You are the Great Composer ... the Author of song ... the Creator of music. What a wonderful gift.
I love to sing. The composing of songs for Your glory and praise will never end because Your song never ends. Teach me Your song, my Father and Teacher. Fill my heart with Your words and Your melody, and tune my lips for praise.
I love to sing of You. I love to sing to You. Please hear the song and the cry of my heart because every song I sing, I sing of You. I love You with my whole heart. I lift these words through Jesus. Amen.
God of my heart -
There was a time when You were grieved that You had made man on the earth, and Your heart was filled with pain.
I love Your heart. Your heart is perfect, and yet I know at times I fill Your heart with pain. I turn my eyes away from Jesus, and I look at the pleasures of this world ... and I am enticed ... and I hurt You ... and I hurt me ... and I hurt ... and Your perfect heart hurts because of me.
I don’t want to hurt You, Lord. You never hurt me.
Lead me gently back to You. Discipline me, Lord. Correct me, but please correct me in Your mercy ... and not in Your wrath ... for I would be destroyed.
I am not destroyed because of Your steadfast love.
I have sinned against You and You only, and I am ashamed. Refine me, Father. Make me holy so that Your heart will delight in me the way my heart delights in You.
I love You, and I am praying through Your perfect Son, Jesus. Amen.
Unchanging God -
It has been a beautiful day. I thank You ... I praise You ... for giving me life, health and energy. I thank You for giving me things to do and people to encourage and love.
Thank You for filling me with purpose and value. My whole esteem flows from You ... not from me ... but from You. I am valuable. I am valuable because I am created by and loved by You.
I’ll never get lost in the millions and billions of people on this planet, Lord. You love me, and nothing can separate me from Your steadfast love. Everywhere I can be, Your power is there.
Every gift ... every talent I have comes from You. You have been very generous. Thank You!
You are changing me daily, and I know that I am everything I am because You love me. Thank You for loving me. Thank You for adopting me, Father.
You are God. You are the unchanging God. You are my God. I don’t want any other god. I’m praying through Jesus. Amen.
Master of all generations -
Thank You for creating mankind and every aspect of life. Thank You for creating me. Thank You for creating relationships. Father, I want to live in an intimate, deep relationship with You. I desire to live in a way that makes You happy that You created me.
Please teach me Your Word and Your Way so that I can master the sin that clings so closely to me.
I can do all things through Christ Who gives me strength. I believe that! It’s not my strength, but His, and He can do anything! I praise You, Father, for sharing Your Son, Jesus Christ, with me. He is my Savior. He is my King. I want to walk with Him. I want to walk with Your Holy Spirit. I want to walk with You ... only with You.
Your Word is a lamp for my feet and a light for my path. Lead me in light, Father. Lead me in the light of Your Word. Lead on, oh King Eternal!
My heart loves You. My heart adores You. With my whole heart, I am praying to You through Jesus. Amen.
Almighty God -
I love Your holy covenant. Your promises are rich and true. Your promises never fail. Thank You for keeping Your promise to Abraham. Your faithfulness helps me believe.
Increase my faith, Lord. Fortify my patience, Father. Every promise You have made to me, I know You will keep in Your time. I will wait on You. I know that You are not slow. You are perfect.
Teach me Your will ... Your way ... Your Word. Use me, Lord, as a vessel. I give You my heart. Mold me into who You want me to be. I am here to serve. I am here to worship. I am here to praise.
You are the promise-keeping God. Lead me, Father. I will follow You. I want to be trustworthy just like You. Through Christ, I can be. I love You. I am Your servant, and I am praying through Your Son, Jesus. Amen.
Father of divine transformations -
I’m waving the white flag, and I’m laying down my arms. I’m disabling my defense systems, and I’m letting down the drawbridge of my defeated heart. I surrender, Father.
I’m weary of holding up the facades ... hiding behind the masks ... and pretending that I am strong in hopes of deflecting the attention of others away from my wounded, insecure heart.
I’m collapsing at Your feet, Lord ... not as one bearing expensive gifts and multiplied talents ... but as a defeated soldier ... a fallen star ... a hunter caught in his own net.
I am naked ... bare ... and devastated. My kingdoms are destroyed ... my high places are leveled. I come simply bringing a broken heart with a gaping hole ... my perennial weakness. I am bankrupt of confidence ... and ravaged by the lusts that vainly promise to fill the cavity and hide its ugliness ... only to further the damage and intensify the pain.
Save me from the destruction of my soul and from the debilitating sin that controls me when I resist Your call and Your companionship. Forgive me, Father, and heal me. I need Your mercy. I need Your grace. I need Your Son to fill the Christ-shaped canyon in my heart. Complete me, Father, in Jesus.
Teach me to embrace my crumbled confidence so that in my weakness Your power may be perfected. Give me grace to resist the enticement of false confidence, and fill me with true confidence that flows only from You. As You convert me ... as You make me new ... create in me the attitude ... the actions ... and the words that will give courage to the wounded hearts I encounter each day. Through my weakness, please bless them with strength.
Father, please make my deepest weakness the source of my greatest ministry. I trust You with my complete transformation. I lift this prayer to You through Jesus. Please let these things be so. Amen.
Great Provider -
Every success I experience or know is only because of You ... because You are with me and have chosen to bless me. With every success, help me to remain humble and thankful.
When I experience failures and disappointments, You are still with me. I believe that. Joseph believed that. Thank You for his wonderful example! Please give me strength to, like him, give You all of the glory for every good thing.
You are Your own interpreter. Rather than getting sidetracked with my own interpretations, give me wisdom and grace, Lord, to simply read Your Word, believe it and obey it. I never want to complicate Your simple truth with my vain opinions.
I can do nothing without You. You can do anything and everything without me, yet You want to be with me. That makes me feel valuable. That gives me purpose.
Fill me with Your beautiful Holy Spirit of grace. Please hear my prayer through Jesus. Amen.
My Father -
I want to learn about love. I want to learn to give love and to receive love in every way that honors You.
I want to love You with my whole heart. I want to love my neighbor. I want to love myself. Sometimes, particularly in the past, I have had a hard time loving ... especially myself. That has had a negative effect on my love for my neighbor and my love for You, but I want to learn.
I’m not afraid to learn from You. You are the Good Teacher ... the Wonderful Counselor ... the Perfect Guide. I am Your student. I am Your servant. I am Your child.
I know that You are perfect love, and I know that You love me. You truly love me.
Teach me ... counsel me ... forgive me ... guide me ... lead me ... love me ... never let me go.
All of my needs are filled in You, and from Your presence, I don’t want to move. I am praying to You, my Father, through Jesus’ holy name. Amen.
Father of love -
I get it. I finally get it. Just like an earthly father loves his children, You love me ... only much more than any human father could ever love.
I’m not just another person to You. I am special in Your eyes. I am a joy to Your heart. You love me deeply because I came from You.
Even in my mistakes and my failures and my sin ... YOU LOVE ME!!
I am amazed at Your continual ... unconditional ... steadfast love. Your love continues forever. Nothing can separate me from Your love. There is no distance too far for You to come after me when I am lost.
You love me. You hear my cry. You run to me. You draw near to me when I draw near to You. I am drawing near to You, Lord.
Kum ba yah! Come by here!
Many times I have withdrawn and resisted You. You have never done that to me. Thank You!
Please make me new. Make me like You. Through Jesus I pray. Amen.