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Abba Father, Lord Jesus I am hot after Your heart, I don’t just
want the blessings; I want the Blesser. I want You to come close.
I want You to touch my eyes, touch my heart, touch my ears and
change me Lord. I’m tired of me the way I am ---I want to be
changed, break me; bring me to such a place of tenderness that it
doesn’t take a hurricane-force wind from Heaven for me to know You
are present. I want to be so tender that the gentlest breeze from
heaven, the smallest zephyr from Your presence, will set my heart
a-dancing, and recognize and say, “Its You!”
Father, I repent of
designing services that men like, instead I yield to what You
like. Your word says, it’s death through repentance and
brokenness that ushers in Your presence and causes me to draw near
to You and yet live. The Bible says, “When a sinner repents, the
angels rejoice.” (Luke
15:10) Death and
repentance on earth brings about joy in the heavenlies. Father, I
want to become free for You. I willingly lay down my life to take
up my cross to follow You. Lord, whatever it takes, I lay myself
on the altar and ask You to consume me with Your Holy fire. I want
to set myself on fire and let the people see me burn!
Father, I
pray that I will always use Your gifts to me for the body of
Christ and for the work of the ministry.
Father, I
do not want to play games anymore or pretend to be something I’m
not—I want Your glory to break out of the four walls of my church
to flow through the streets of our cities. I want to pursue Your
presence—I do not want anyone to stand between us, I want to enter
into Your Holy Presence. I long for Your sweet fellowship. I want
an intimate walk with the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit.
I want to
come fully into Your presence. I want to reach out and grasp and
receive everything You have for me today and everyday. I want to
grow into a relationship with You, no matter what it cost me.
I desire to walk in the freshness of what You have for me every
day. Show me Your glory! I want You to deal with me personally and
directly.
Father, I
have a hunger and desperation for You, I’m tired of everybody else
hearing from You, I want to hear from a personal God-I want to
hear You for myself! I want Your love notes to be freshly written
on my heart—pull me closer to You in a new level of intimacy, O
God. O God, I seek You, the Reviver, not revival! I want to have
an intimate, close encounter with You. Invade my home (invade my
church) with Your abiding Presence in a way that will make every
visitor begin to weep with wonder and worship the moment they
enter.
Lord, I
put on the ring of commitment to become Your bride, not a
girlfriend; one who will stick with you. I pledge myself to You,
Lord. I want an intimate knowledge of the living God.
I want to experience a
thick blanket of Your tangible presence so heavy that I will
receive an up-close and personal understanding of what is meant by
Your word when it says, “And it came to pass when the priest
were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house
of the Lord --So that the priest could not stand to minister
because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord had filled the
house of the Lord. (1
Kings
8:10-11)
I want to tremble in the fear of Your presence. O God I want to
live under the shadow of Your glory!
Father,
my hunger is too deep for one meal to satisfy me. I’m after more
than one visitation; I want Your visitation to become habitation.
I want Your present presence to be here. Lord God, I am here to
meet with You, teach me how to handle holy things of Your
presence. Have mercy on me, Lord Jesus. Restore my respect and awe
for Your glory and the things that are holy. I want to carry Your
presence with me, to dwell with You in intimate communion, so slay
the flesh in me.
Father, I
want Your anointing and the power of Your presence to come upon me
so strongly that Your presence will literally go before me into my
office, and shopping malls. Because Your glory and presence cannot
be contained within the four walls of the church—Your glory must
flow out into the world.
Father
take me through the complete process of repentance and brokenness
without me hindering or quenching Your Spirit. So when Your
weighty presence comes upon me then I will be able to carry it
without fear because, I will be walking in the purity of Jesus and
my flesh will be dead, covered by the blood of the Lamb. Lord
whatever it takes, because nothing is worth holding on to so hard
that I cannot hold on to You.
Yes Lord!
Just send wave after wave of Your glory until it has literally
floods everything. May all that is not of You just be washed away
down stream-Rain Jesus, Reign!
Written
by VSD-G 3/24/00
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