Abba Father, all the possibilities of my human language are exhausted in setting forth the fullness and perfection of Your Word.  You are the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last! You are every thing of goodness and perfection that can be expressed by every letter of the alphabet, arranged in every possible combination. As I read Your Word in Psalms 119 it expresses Your love which Your Son, my Lord experienced here on earth.

I am blessed and happy when my life is conformed to Your Word. Even when I sin and fail, there is provision in Your Word for confession and restoration, and this keeps me in an undefiled condition. Hallelujah! I give You praise and glory!

As I read Your Word I have a deep enormous desire to please You with my whole heart. I find that the surest way to abstain from evil is to be completely occupied with following Your Word in deeds and actions. Your precepts are not optional but commandments and they are not to be kept haphazardly but diligently.

Father I acknowledge that the desire to keep Your commandments as well as the power to be steadfast in obedience must ultimately comes from You. As long as I keep Your statutes I will be spared from the shame that tortures the mind, crimsons the cheek and even at times makes the body squirm.

As I journey with You in prayer and learn to obey Your righteous ordinances, I become full of joy and that joy leads to a spontaneous adoration of You. Father I humbly depend on You for all my needs as I realize my own inadequacies.

With my whole heart I seek You, O God. Do not let me wonder from Your commandments. The best book in the World is Your Book and the best place to put it is in my heart. The best reason for putting it there is that is saves me from sinning against You. There is a deep delight in the treasures of Your Word that inevitably gives me the desire to share it with others. There are many nuggets of gold in Your Scriptures. Your Word provides endless resource material for the most satisfying meditations.

Your commandments are not burdensome! "Whoever is born of God will delight in the statures of the Lord and determine to keep them in constant remembrance." (1John 5:3) Without You, O God, I can do nothing. I need Your grace for living and also for obeying Your Word.  I ask for Your plenteous grace, O Lord for my needs are so great.

Open my eyes to see Your wondrous, spiritual goodies, which are hidden by the casual glance. Your Word, O God is like a road map that guides me unerringly to my destination. My soul thirsts O Lord, for Your Word and I find strength and solace in meditating on Your Word.  When others speak harshly to me, Your Word is my counselor and it counsels me to bear it patiently and commit the cause to You. Hallelujah! Thank You Abba Father for Your Word!

Father life has its valleys as well as its mountaintops. So even when I am cast down in sorrow, I know I can call on You to revive me through the restoring power of Your word.

I thank You that when I make an open confession of my sins; You answer me by forgiving. This leads me to a renewed desire for holiness, as expressed by prayer, “Lord, teach me Your statues." I need to understand the meaning of Your precepts so I can apply them practically to my life and then it will lead me to meditate on Your wonderful works.

In the dark spots of life when my soul melts in tears, You the God of all comfort, bends low and often with a single verse of Scripture lifts me and strengthen me to go on. Your commands must be set before us as a mark to aim at, the model to work by and the road to walk in.

Father, I try hard to adhere to Your testimonies, but I realize I still have the proneness to wonder, and I cry to You in conscious dependence. That when You give me a big heart, not a big head and then I hasten to keep Your commandments.

Father I pray for Your instructions. I am eager to learn how to translate Your precepts into practice and I am determined to obey Your Word to the end of my life.

I pray for understanding. I want the righteousness of Your word and of their meaning and obligations. How else can I follow You with undivided devotedness?

I pray for guidance. My spirit is willing but my flesh is weak. Guide my feet in the path of Your will, because that is the only way in which I will be truly happy.

I pray for spiritual rather than material enrichments. "Godliness with contentment is great gain." (1 Tim. 6:6) Father its Your miracle of grace that takes the love of money from man and replaces it with a love for Your Word.

I pray for divine realities, not shadows. Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things. O Lord I pray that You would establish Your promises, "All the rivers of thy grace I claim; over every promise write my name."

Father I pray to be kept from reproach, from anything that would bring shame or dishonor on Your name. For Your judgments are good; I need to follow them faithfully. Father, I pray for personal revival. "The parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water." (Isaiah 35:7) Your word says if I burn and long for Your precepts, You will revive me in Your righteousness.

Father, I am dependent on Your compassion and protection so I claim Your promises to care for and keep me day by day. My faith is based on Your Word, which never fails. May I never be afraid or ashamed to speak the Word of Truth. How else can I give my best for You and live for You completely after all You have done for Me. Lord keep me teachable by Your Holy Spirit.

                                                   Written by VSD-G 2/20/00

God speaks: Precious child, I hear your petition and I will take them to the Father.

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 a 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

 

 

Abba Father, I come before You a sinner saved by the grace and the shed blood of Jesus Christ, thanking you for forgiving me of pride of ancestry, pride of orthodoxy; pride of activity and pride of morality. I confess self-love; self- pride, and self-ambition and I ask to be delivered from all self-righteousness of pride. Lord keep my eyes open to the risen Savior, not self. These are all worthless when compared to the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord. I thank You for the garment of righteousness You provide for me, Lord Jesus by Your blood. I thank You I can come to Your throne room without fear of death but through Your righteousness I can enter into Your presence. Hallelujah! I give You praise and glory! "He (God) made Him (Christ) who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become righteousness of God." (2 Corinthians 5:21)

Father I have an inner longing for fellowship with You that can be compared to the vehement craving of the deer as it wanders through the parched countryside, its sides throbbing and its breathing quickened as it longs for the brook. My thirst is for You alone, no one else will do; I thirst for the living God--not for a dead idol. The desire O God can only be fully satisfied by a personal appearing before the Lord and the privilege of gazing upon Your face.  O Let Your glory come down. Lord I just want to be in Your presence. I am thirsty and hungry for Your glory and power.

Lord I need Your presence, whatever it takes, wherever it comes from, I must have You. Do not pass me by. "…. I saw water coming out from under the threshold of the temple…" (Ezek. 47:1) O let Your glory fall upon me, O God!

Father, I desire the power of Christ resurrection, which Your word says is available to all believers in Ephesians 1:19. It is my ambition to experience this power in my life and testimony. I want to live the crucified life, to die practically to sin, self and the world. I am willing to abide in You, Lord so I can bear fruit.

My supreme desire is the knowledge of Your glory--I have an intense longing to reach You in the place where You are. Continue Your work in me Lord, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, namely: the privilege and responsibilities of living the Christian life, whether worship, service, or the personal development of my Christian character.  I want to achieve the goal for the prize of the upward call of You in my Lord Jesus Christ.

Lord reveal Your truths to me, for I am willing to follow them. While I wait for You to reveal the full implication of the cross to me, I will obey whatever degree of truth I have already received. Father do for me what Your Son did for Paul, let me become a pattern to all future believers.