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Holy Habitation, Prayer

Mourning Prayer: 5/27/24

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‭‭Psalms‬ ‭139‬:‭23‬-‭24‬; ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭51‬:‭10‬-‭13‬; 2 Corinthians 7:7-10; Ezekiel 9:4-6, NASB1995‬‬

I do cry out to You, O Lord God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who still preserves the covenant and lovingkindness for those who love You and keep Your commandments. In the righteousness of Christ covering me, I bow before You through the veil. By Your gracious mercy, sufficient for me in that blessed union, I pray that Your ear now be attentive and Your eyes open to hear the prayer of Your servant which I am praying before You now, day and night.

I grieve the sin in my own life and seek to fully surrender to Your chastening hand, for You love me as Your daughter in Christ and desire my good, that I honor You and walk in Your ways at all times and in all things. This, too, is my heart cry; so I humble myself today and seek Your face with all that I am and ever hope to be.

Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; see if there be any hurtful way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way. Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence nor take Your Holy Spirit from me, but draw near to me as I draw near to You. Fill me to the full with all that You are and created me to be in union with You. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation. Sustain me with a willing spirit of obedience to You, Your will and Your way. Then use me to teach transgressors Your ways, so that sinners will be converted to You.

Also, Father, daily my heart breaks over the sin and struggle I see in many I so greatly love, and for those in this great nation You have caused me to habitat for Your glory and purpose. More still, my heart breaks for those who are blind to You and Your ways, absolutely incapable of seeing and acknowledging their need of You and Your mercy in Christ.

On behalf of those who seek to know You, living as Your servants, confessing the sins we, too, fall into, in which we have sinned against You, I beg Your pardon and ask Your cleansing. Make us to walk as lights in this night, useful to You in drawing the many who do not know and serve You into the saving grace that frees from sin’s grip and the death that comes to those who refuse Your provision in Christ. And open blinded eyes, stirring cold, dead hearts and dulled minds, causing many to see, hear, and know You. This I pray for me, for mine, for this nation, and, indeed, for the world at large. In Jesus Holy and pure Name, amen.

Holy Habitation, Prayer

Morning My rayer: 5/21/24

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See also Galatians 2:20; Philippians 1:6; Romans 12:1-3

This is my desire: to walk step by step and breath by breath in Your equipping, adequately prepared to introduce Your life, Your love, and Your power into each situation You bring me to. Thank You that we have not been left on the defensive or called to preserve the status quo, but equipped to let Jesus happen through us.

In Jesus, “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” This is my hope and life-song as I walk daily in the assurance that You are continually working to bring me to perfection until the day of Christ. In You I trust. And by Your mercies, I present myself, a living and holy sacrifice to You.

May Your will be accomplished in and through me to the glory of Your name. In Jesus name, Amen.

Holy Habitation, Prayer

Morning Prayer: 5/20/24

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(Galatians 2:20; Philippians 2:1-8; John 15:1-14)

“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” – 1 John 4:7-11 NASB1995

Father, fill me with Your abiding love first for You, and then for those around me, for love is from God. Everyone who truly loves is born of God and knows God. Being unloving proves one does not know You, for You, O God, are love, and You bear the fruit of Your image through us who abide in Christ. I pray for Your love to pour to me and through me for the glory of Your name, and for the fulfillment of Your Kingdom purpose.

You manifest Your love in us in that You sent Your only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved You, but that You loved us and sent Your Son to be the propitiation for our – my – sins. Father, since You so loved us, we also ought to love one another. Empower us to die to self and self-will so that others may know You. This heart is my desire and request.

Thank You, Father, that through Christ I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. The life which I now live in the flesh, I pray You grant me the faith to live in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Let this truth be seen in me through the giving and receiving of encouragement in Christ, the consolation of love, the fellowship of the Spirit, and the giving of affection and compassion.

Make my joy complete by making me to be of the same mind with You and Your true people, maintaining the same love; and being united in spirit. Fill us with Your love so that we may be one with You, intent on one purpose. May we do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind grant us to regard one another as more important than self. May we not merely look out for our own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.

Fill us with this attitude in ourselves which was also in Christ Jesus. He existed in the form of God, but did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped – He did not count Himself too good to get in the mud and lift us out of it. Emptying Himself, and taking the form of a bond-servant, being made in the likeness of men – found in appearance as a man, Jesus humbled Himself by becoming obedient to Your will and desire, even to the point of death, the death on a cross that paid my due penalty.

My desire, Lord, is to love so as to lay down my life for others, not only in dying for them, if need be, but in the opportunities to give myself to the simple acts of intentional selflessness that come to us almost daily. Increase my faithfulness in putting my desires aside to meet the need of another. This is my heart cry. True love is revealed in us as in Christ when we willingly give ourselves to the practice of intentional selflessness for the cause of Christ. May I be found faithful at Your coming. In Jesus name, amen.

Holy Habitation, Prayer

Morning Prayer: 5/17/24

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“And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”” – Matthew 28:18-20 NASB1995

Father, we are first called to “make disciples,” specifically teaching them to observe all that You command us. And when they believe You, we are told to baptize them in the name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Baptism is important and not to be degraded. We make disciples and baptize them in Your name. That is our clear, undeniable call and instruction. Make us who are disciples of Your teachings and baptized into Your Name faithful to Your call. In Jesus, amen.