‘Lord, I see that Your life was so perfect while You lived in the body of this flesh. You did not disdain the flesh, and yet You compelled it to do Your will and the will of Your Father. And behold, the body responded. It did not overpower You, but You overpowered it...
‘Lord Jesus, deliver me from myself because in myself dwells no good thing. There is so much falsehood and pretense that it becomes difficult sometimes to know who is the real me. The fabric of artificiality sometimes weaves itself into my everyday thinking,...
‘It’s all about Your glory and honor; it’s all about taking my rightful place of total submission to You O Lord. When I think I know better than You, I naturally set off making my decisions and pursuing my goals, which bring me into direct conflict with You. But if my...
‘My life O Lord is punctuated with a thousand distractions, all insisting that I gaze their way. Your call to ‘look at Me’ is a valid call but I must first fight the ten thousand battles of distractions, each appealing for my attention and obedience. Only in looking...
‘Lord I know You are always speaking. My biggest problem is that I don’t always hear and many times, I hear and disobey. I believe You are speaking through the Scriptures, but I know You also speak outside the Scriptures. I believe You speak with an audible voice and...
‘Oh Lord; now I understand where You’ve been trying to bring me and where You’ve wanted to take me away from. Oh blessed Lord, take me away from the desires and passions that bring such delights that replace Your inner joy in my heart. Free me Lord from all the...
‘Am trembling as I write because I know very well the things You have been demanding that I give up, but I have sneaked around and escaped Your hands each time (or so I thought). My escapist attitudes explain why my cries for spiritual renewal have failed to happen...
‘Lord I am tired of this self-life that keeps deceiving me and tripping me up. I know the work of the cross is painful, but since that is the only way to be free from the disgusting influence of the veil of the self-life, I invite the work of the cross to do a...
‘My spiritual faculties are dull but not dead O, God. Because You live in me, they are still alive but not sharp or able to perceive easily. I want to see and hear and taste this real spiritual world around me, this Mount Zion that exists in real time. I know that...
‘Your world O Lord is all around me, but I need to grow in spiritual receptivity and spiritual immediacy to the divine invitation. You are constantly inviting me upward and deeper, but the physical world is too close and too loud for me. Help me respond to You. Help...