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.