Thank you for my son. I pray for him and for all the ones who surround his life. Thank you for ...
Lord, I pray for my sister and her family...
I pray for all of my family... Thank you that they are Christians and they taught me so much about love and support.
Thank you Lord for all my friends and neighbors throughout my life. Thank you for ...
Lord, thank you for the people who taught me how to do my work. Thank you for... and all those who supported my work over the years...
Thank you for the ones who helped me at my work... and all their families.
Now Lord, I thank you for my friends who call upon your name, who shared their knowledge of you with me. Thank you for... and all their families. Thank you for the household of faith, our eternal family.
Lord Jesus, I come with these and thank you that we know we are received, because you have bid us to come. May the light of your holy presence shine upon us and expose our sins to our own eyes. May we see, acknowledge and confess our sins that they may be removed. Let us not hide, justify or excuse our sins, but acknowledge and call them by name. May we have a genuine awareness of the damage our sins have done to one another, to you, and to our own soul. Thank you that this is SALVATION! That with the sword of God's word, you remove our sins from our soul, and I pray, removed from our character. They are nailed to the cross of Golgotha where you pay our sin debt. Having purchased them with your blood, you don't use them to condemn or to humiliate us, but you have cast them from our history and Holy God has vowed to never think upon them again. Now, wash us with the water of God's word, that we would be quickened to wisdom and knowing the will of God, walk in obedience.
Blessed Savior, I ask you now to extend the hand of healing. As you answered the pleas of the afflicted, and of their parents and friends in the streets of Judea, Dear Lord, heal these we bring before you who are suffering... And, Lord, please heal our relationships... Heal also our desires, that I would not waste the gifts of life, but invest them in that which glorifies your Holy name. Heal my memory, that I would have knowledge of my sins and seek forgiveness from those against whom I sinned.
Fill us with the life of God - with the love, the power, the wisdom of God. And cloth us with the garments of salvation and praise, put upon our feet the preparation of the gospel of peace, upon our shoulders robes of righteousness and crown us with your glory.
Gather us at the door you built in the firmament. You built it with the substance of your life, the only life that moves freely between heaven and earth. An example of perfection and righteousness and you offered it up as a sacrifice for the sin of this world. With the substance of your life you built this door. With the nails of God's sure words of promise to us, you hung it in the firmament, and with the blood of your sacrifice you wrote upon it "whosoever will." And you hold it open against all the forces that would prevent us from entering the kingdom of God and heaven. We meet a sword which is the word of God, it defines and maintains this firmament, dividing light and darkness, holy and unholy. Pointing at the gate of our heart it discerns our thoughts and intents, piercing to the joint and marrow, dividing spirit and soul asunder, laying us naked and open before the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. But that sword salutes us as we enter with the King of Glory. And you take us to the tree of life, and feed us the fruit of that tree; the richness, the fullness, the sweetness of life. You minister the healing that is in its leaves, and it changes our nature into your likeness.
We follow you through streets of gold and across the crystal sea and up into the highest heaven, into the abiding place of Everlasting & Almighty God, the I AM THAT I AM, our Maker and Creator, Fountain of Life, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, Holy One of Israel, by the power of your word all things exist, and all creation functions according to your purpose. You formed man from the dust of the earth in your own image, breathing into our nostrils the breath of life, causing us to be a living soul. Your word says that you saw all that you had made and behold, it was very good. We do not remember the days we beheld your glory and rejoiced in your presence, for we took unto ourselves a way contrary to your will. We committed sins against your words of life and love, corrupting ourselves we would have been destroyed with our sins. But you spoke forth the word of Salvation, you laid bear your Holy Arm and the Right Hand of your Righteousness has gone forth, Mighty to Save.
You sent the only human who lived a life, perfect and worthy to be called the Son of God, you sent Jesus, to seek and to save us. He redeemed our souls from hell with his own blood. He cleansed us, healed us, clothed us and presents us into your most awesome and glorious presence acceptable and embraceable to you and he taught us to say,
"Our Father, who is in heaven, Hallowed be your name". Thank you dear God that we can call you Father, and know it pleases you. How amazing that we can approach Almighty God with the boldness of a child, knowing we are loved. For we are accepted in the Beloved.
Lord, I pray for my sister and her family...
I pray for all of my family... Thank you that they are Christians and they taught me so much about love and support.
Thank you Lord for all my friends and neighbors throughout my life. Thank you for ...
Lord, thank you for the people who taught me how to do my work. Thank you for... and all those who supported my work over the years...
Thank you for the ones who helped me at my work... and all their families.
Now Lord, I thank you for my friends who call upon your name, who shared their knowledge of you with me. Thank you for... and all their families. Thank you for the household of faith, our eternal family.
Lord Jesus, I come with these and thank you that we know we are received, because you have bid us to come. May the light of your holy presence shine upon us and expose our sins to our own eyes. May we see, acknowledge and confess our sins that they may be removed. Let us not hide, justify or excuse our sins, but acknowledge and call them by name. May we have a genuine awareness of the damage our sins have done to one another, to you, and to our own soul. Thank you that this is SALVATION! That with the sword of God's word, you remove our sins from our soul, and I pray, removed from our character. They are nailed to the cross of Golgotha where you pay our sin debt. Having purchased them with your blood, you don't use them to condemn or to humiliate us, but you have cast them from our history and Holy God has vowed to never think upon them again. Now, wash us with the water of God's word, that we would be quickened to wisdom and knowing the will of God, walk in obedience.
Blessed Savior, I ask you now to extend the hand of healing. As you answered the pleas of the afflicted, and of their parents and friends in the streets of Judea, Dear Lord, heal these we bring before you who are suffering... And, Lord, please heal our relationships... Heal also our desires, that I would not waste the gifts of life, but invest them in that which glorifies your Holy name. Heal my memory, that I would have knowledge of my sins and seek forgiveness from those against whom I sinned.
Fill us with the life of God - with the love, the power, the wisdom of God. And cloth us with the garments of salvation and praise, put upon our feet the preparation of the gospel of peace, upon our shoulders robes of righteousness and crown us with your glory.
Gather us at the door you built in the firmament. You built it with the substance of your life, the only life that moves freely between heaven and earth. An example of perfection and righteousness and you offered it up as a sacrifice for the sin of this world. With the substance of your life you built this door. With the nails of God's sure words of promise to us, you hung it in the firmament, and with the blood of your sacrifice you wrote upon it "whosoever will." And you hold it open against all the forces that would prevent us from entering the kingdom of God and heaven. We meet a sword which is the word of God, it defines and maintains this firmament, dividing light and darkness, holy and unholy. Pointing at the gate of our heart it discerns our thoughts and intents, piercing to the joint and marrow, dividing spirit and soul asunder, laying us naked and open before the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. But that sword salutes us as we enter with the King of Glory. And you take us to the tree of life, and feed us the fruit of that tree; the richness, the fullness, the sweetness of life. You minister the healing that is in its leaves, and it changes our nature into your likeness.
We follow you through streets of gold and across the crystal sea and up into the highest heaven, into the abiding place of Everlasting & Almighty God, the I AM THAT I AM, our Maker and Creator, Fountain of Life, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, Holy One of Israel, by the power of your word all things exist, and all creation functions according to your purpose. You formed man from the dust of the earth in your own image, breathing into our nostrils the breath of life, causing us to be a living soul. Your word says that you saw all that you had made and behold, it was very good. We do not remember the days we beheld your glory and rejoiced in your presence, for we took unto ourselves a way contrary to your will. We committed sins against your words of life and love, corrupting ourselves we would have been destroyed with our sins. But you spoke forth the word of Salvation, you laid bear your Holy Arm and the Right Hand of your Righteousness has gone forth, Mighty to Save.
You sent the only human who lived a life, perfect and worthy to be called the Son of God, you sent Jesus, to seek and to save us. He redeemed our souls from hell with his own blood. He cleansed us, healed us, clothed us and presents us into your most awesome and glorious presence acceptable and embraceable to you and he taught us to say,
"Our Father, who is in heaven, Hallowed be your name". Thank you dear God that we can call you Father, and know it pleases you. How amazing that we can approach Almighty God with the boldness of a child, knowing we are loved. For we are accepted in the Beloved.
"Hallowed be your name." Father, your holiness is beyond all that we can imagine. We are astonished by it, we adore and praise your Holy Name. You have called us into the holiness of your character, but we cannot attain to it. Thank you that you have vowed to make us holy, as you are holy.
"Your kingdom come, your will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven." Father, this is the prayer that Jesus prayed in Gethsemane, as he shed drops of blood in the anguish of his soul, experiencing this human condition of possessing a will in conflict with your will. He so identified with humanity, he clung to that human will, but, in agony, He sacrificed it to you, accepting your will which was for him to drink the cup of judgement against the sin of this world and pour out upon us his righteousness. His obedience won for us eternal life. I pray we follow him in this sacrifice of our will, accepting your will in our lives, which is for us to receive this glorious gift of salvation and walk in His righteousness.
"Give us this day our daily bread."
Father, you created our bodies to be dependent on living food. And too, our soul needs food, this would be the bread of life, the life of Jesus, broken and shared with us. Give us our portion for today that we may consume his life, be nourished and empowered by it and walk in the strength of his life today.
"Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors." Father, this would be the death of Jesus, for it is the blood of his sacrifice poured out for us, that establishes forever our unity and fellowship with you. With his blood you have given us the authority, and he has given us the commandment, to extend loving mercy as far as we can reach; certainly to those that we love and hold dear, even to our debtors, even to our enemies.
Father, you have given us the life and death of the Lord Jesus Christ, your son and our Savior.
"Lead us not in temptation but deliver us from evil." Lead us least we would lean to our own understanding and be overcome by temptation to abuse or fail to use these most precious treasures. Thank you Father that you have given us the Captain of our Salvation to lead us and to deliver us from evil today. He has already placed his body beneath our yoke and burden of sin, taking to himself our guilt and shame, our condemnation and our death. And Father, it pleases you and he agrees to put upon our shoulder his yoke of righteousness and holiness, his mantle and burden of bringing together everlasting God and creation. And you harness us together with the power of the Holy Spirit, who knits us into one body, holds us that none should stray or fall away, enabling us to bear one another's burdens. We discover it is the presence of Everlasting God we bear into this day.
Father, we look again to Jesus, dear carpenter of Nazareth, revealed to be your Holy Son, who is our mighty Savior and now as our excellent High Priest, to rear up in our bodies your holy tabernacle, your abiding place on earth.
Father, he begins with the product of our lives, lives that you planted upon the earth and we grew up reaching for heaven but we failed. We are corrupt and defiled, not suitable building material for your tabernacle. We would have been consumed by the fire of your holy presence, reduced to ashes beneath his feet. So he laid his dear body upon the product of our lives and he allowed the nails of your words of promise to us to unite his life to ours. There he shed his precious blood covering our lives with his own. That which was my shame, my condemnation and my death, he has made my crimson pillar of power, my eternal proof of purchase, the foundation of my everlasting life. He hangs round about us his righteousness and his holiness, covering us with his flesh, enfolding and enclosing our lives in himself, claiming us as territory of everlasting God, a place on earth you have chosen to put your holy name.
He places within us a golden lamp stand, a body wrought out of pure gold, filled with the power of the Holy Spirit, given the wick of a lifespan, and crowned with the knowledge of the presence of everlasting God, giving light against the firmament, revealing the patterns of heaven. And he places the table of shewbread where you give us life on a golden table, supplied, supported, sustained and ordered by the hand of Everlasting God, that we may consume it in your presence with joy. And the alter of incense where you give us a place to abide face to face with Holy God in communion and fellowship over the sweet fragrance of Jesus. And finally Father, for the furnishing of the Holy of Holies where you dwell between the cherubim over the place of your holy word, he enters the dark and forbidding wilderness of my imagination, where my reckless and rebellious heart wanders and the beast of my sin nature dwells.
Father, you reach into the broken bread of life and fill an earthen vessel, putting into our heart the person of the Lord Jesus, planting in the heart of our imagination his everlasting life. And you take the rod that bears our name and graft it to Him who is the true vine, bringing into fruition and perfection our own unique and individual personality. Father, you have called us by name and said "Live before me forever" and we do because you have bundled our lives together in the life of God, giving us eternal perfection like a prize. And you take a flame from him who is the Holy Spirit, who hovers over the face of the deep bringing forth creation at your word, sustaining it according to your will. You take his flame and put it in a golden censer giving into our heart the power to be a child of the Most High God. Now Father, you lay bear your own heart and allow Jesus and the Holy Spirit to gather your thoughts, your plans, your promises, your personality and your ways, and in the form of letters and words they inscribe you into our heart. There you abide a patient and a consistent father, submitting yourself to our human intellect, allowing us to examine and wrestle with the Truth of who you are. And you teach us that we would learn, practice, do and keep your ways, that we would walk Holy as you are Holy.
Dear Lord God, we cling to these words by faith and trust in your ability to perform your promises to us. Thank you that you share your life with us in this body of flesh. May all who call ourselves by your name, be mindful of your presence and yielded to your authority, for you are God; the same God in the heart of our imagination as you are on the Throne of Heaven.
And now our High Priest places our heart, bearing the elements of Holy God, within our tabernacle of flesh, creating within us a Holy of Holies. He covers it with the MERCY SEAT, explaining in that act your purpose and avenue for visiting your creation, to give mercy to us and those that you bring into your presence through our lives. He sprinkles everything with his own blood that there be nothing left to inhibit or prevent our abiding together. He has so committed himself to our success, he pours out his life's blood upon the dusty ground or our lives that our bodies of flesh may absorb His Life into it and together we pray:
" Hallelujah! Almighty God, Thank you for saving our souls from destruction! Thank you for calling us and writing our names in the book of life! Thank you for preparing a place for us to dwell with you forever in kingdom of heaven! And receiving us now, in your everlasting arms, your family and your children, forever! As you have chosen our lives and made the heart of our imagination an acceptable abiding place for your Holy presence, circumcise our hearts to love you. Cause us to walk in your statutes and commandments. Express your presence in our lives on earth, as you are the God of heaven. Fill every cell and fiber of our bodies of flesh, rule in every thought, in every act, in every moment of our lives on earth as you rule in heaven. MAKE OUR LIVES A PLACE OF REFUGE, MAKE OUR HEART YOUR THRONE OF GRACE. BE GOD IN OUR LIVES ON EARTH AS YOU ARE THE GOD OF HEAVEN, FOREVER AND EVER!"
Father, let us go together now with our Savior, keeping our eyes upon the Author and Finisher of our faith, learning as we follow in his steps how to serve the Living God. Father, he has his face set toward sacrifice again today, I pray we would follow him and sacrifice ourselves together with him, that we might bring glory to your holy name on earth as it is in heaven.
Father, we still bear the image of the earthly boils and vermin we have been, but you have changed us, you have accepted us in the Beloved. May our lives shine, as living tabernacles of testimony to your Presence, to your Love, to your Mercy, and to your Power.
In the name of the Holy Son Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit, and to the glory of Everlasting God our Father, now and forever more, world without end.
Amen, Amen and Amen.
Father, we look again to Jesus, dear carpenter of Nazareth, revealed to be your Holy Son, who is our mighty Savior and now as our excellent High Priest, to rear up in our bodies your holy tabernacle, your abiding place on earth.
Father, he begins with the product of our lives, lives that you planted upon the earth and we grew up reaching for heaven but we failed. We are corrupt and defiled, not suitable building material for your tabernacle. We would have been consumed by the fire of your holy presence, reduced to ashes beneath his feet. So he laid his dear body upon the product of our lives and he allowed the nails of your words of promise to us to unite his life to ours. There he shed his precious blood covering our lives with his own. That which was my shame, my condemnation and my death, he has made my crimson pillar of power, my eternal proof of purchase, the foundation of my everlasting life. He hangs round about us his righteousness and his holiness, covering us with his flesh, enfolding and enclosing our lives in himself, claiming us as territory of everlasting God, a place on earth you have chosen to put your holy name.
He places within us a golden lamp stand, a body wrought out of pure gold, filled with the power of the Holy Spirit, given the wick of a lifespan, and crowned with the knowledge of the presence of everlasting God, giving light against the firmament, revealing the patterns of heaven. And he places the table of shewbread where you give us life on a golden table, supplied, supported, sustained and ordered by the hand of Everlasting God, that we may consume it in your presence with joy. And the alter of incense where you give us a place to abide face to face with Holy God in communion and fellowship over the sweet fragrance of Jesus. And finally Father, for the furnishing of the Holy of Holies where you dwell between the cherubim over the place of your holy word, he enters the dark and forbidding wilderness of my imagination, where my reckless and rebellious heart wanders and the beast of my sin nature dwells.
My heart goes so quickly and consistently into fellowship with that beast. I commit sins and abominations and hide in that darkness in determination to bury my sins under excuses and justifications. I become trapped in lines of confusion while that beast devours my gifts of life; of time and energy and care of heart. Lord Jesus, the light of your presence reveals my doings, my sins appear, my corruption and my unfaithfulness to Holy God. But you do not condemn our heart you release it from the jaws of that beast. You cleanse it and heal it and make it tender toward our Father, speaking to us words of his loving mercies. You gather our heart upon your bosom, and in your mighty arms of salvation you deliver it up into the glorious presence of Everlasting God. There in the intimacy and power of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, you invest the elements of one another into our heart, making it your abiding place on Earth.
Father, you reach into the broken bread of life and fill an earthen vessel, putting into our heart the person of the Lord Jesus, planting in the heart of our imagination his everlasting life. And you take the rod that bears our name and graft it to Him who is the true vine, bringing into fruition and perfection our own unique and individual personality. Father, you have called us by name and said "Live before me forever" and we do because you have bundled our lives together in the life of God, giving us eternal perfection like a prize. And you take a flame from him who is the Holy Spirit, who hovers over the face of the deep bringing forth creation at your word, sustaining it according to your will. You take his flame and put it in a golden censer giving into our heart the power to be a child of the Most High God. Now Father, you lay bear your own heart and allow Jesus and the Holy Spirit to gather your thoughts, your plans, your promises, your personality and your ways, and in the form of letters and words they inscribe you into our heart. There you abide a patient and a consistent father, submitting yourself to our human intellect, allowing us to examine and wrestle with the Truth of who you are. And you teach us that we would learn, practice, do and keep your ways, that we would walk Holy as you are Holy.
Dear Lord God, we cling to these words by faith and trust in your ability to perform your promises to us. Thank you that you share your life with us in this body of flesh. May all who call ourselves by your name, be mindful of your presence and yielded to your authority, for you are God; the same God in the heart of our imagination as you are on the Throne of Heaven.
And now our High Priest places our heart, bearing the elements of Holy God, within our tabernacle of flesh, creating within us a Holy of Holies. He covers it with the MERCY SEAT, explaining in that act your purpose and avenue for visiting your creation, to give mercy to us and those that you bring into your presence through our lives. He sprinkles everything with his own blood that there be nothing left to inhibit or prevent our abiding together. He has so committed himself to our success, he pours out his life's blood upon the dusty ground or our lives that our bodies of flesh may absorb His Life into it and together we pray:
" Hallelujah! Almighty God, Thank you for saving our souls from destruction! Thank you for calling us and writing our names in the book of life! Thank you for preparing a place for us to dwell with you forever in kingdom of heaven! And receiving us now, in your everlasting arms, your family and your children, forever! As you have chosen our lives and made the heart of our imagination an acceptable abiding place for your Holy presence, circumcise our hearts to love you. Cause us to walk in your statutes and commandments. Express your presence in our lives on earth, as you are the God of heaven. Fill every cell and fiber of our bodies of flesh, rule in every thought, in every act, in every moment of our lives on earth as you rule in heaven. MAKE OUR LIVES A PLACE OF REFUGE, MAKE OUR HEART YOUR THRONE OF GRACE. BE GOD IN OUR LIVES ON EARTH AS YOU ARE THE GOD OF HEAVEN, FOREVER AND EVER!"
Father, let us go together now with our Savior, keeping our eyes upon the Author and Finisher of our faith, learning as we follow in his steps how to serve the Living God. Father, he has his face set toward sacrifice again today, I pray we would follow him and sacrifice ourselves together with him, that we might bring glory to your holy name on earth as it is in heaven.
Father, we still bear the image of the earthly boils and vermin we have been, but you have changed us, you have accepted us in the Beloved. May our lives shine, as living tabernacles of testimony to your Presence, to your Love, to your Mercy, and to your Power.
In the name of the Holy Son Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit, and to the glory of Everlasting God our Father, now and forever more, world without end.
Amen, Amen and Amen.
