Prayers

Prayers

Lord, may my one desire be to have my spirit become the worthy dwelling of Your Spirit. Let Your words lift me up in holy trust and expectation to look for and claim all that Your promise means. My Father, I thank You that Your Spirit dwells in me. Let His indwelling be in power, in living fellowship with You and the indwelling of my Lord Jesus. May my daily walk be in the deep reverence of His holy presence within me. Amen
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Blessed Lord Jesus, write the truth in my heart that loving obedience may look for a loving acceptance, sealed by the Spirit. With my whole heart, I do love You, and want to keep each one of Your commandments. I surrender myself afresh to You for this. In the depths of my soul, there is only one desire: that Your will be done in me as in heaven. I submit myself to every reproof of my conscience. To every moving of Your Spirit, I will yield implicit obedience. I give my will and life into Your death, that, being raised with You, the life of Your Holy Spirit may be my life. Amen
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Blessed Father, we have heard Jesus' command to wait for the promise. We thank You for what has already been fulfilled in us. But our souls long for the full possession, the fullness of the blessing of Christ. Teach us to wait on You. Teach us, each day, as we draw near to You, to wait for the Spirit. In the sacrifice of our own wisdom and our will, may we learn to lie humbly before You, so that Your Spirit may work with power. Teach us that as our life of self is laid before You, day by day, the Holy life will rise in power, and our worship will be in Spirit and in truth. Amen
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Blessed Father, I thank You that the Holy Spirit is to us the bearer of the fullness of Jesus. make me full. Let the Holy Spirit take and keep possession of my deepest, innermost life. Let Your Spirit fill my spirit. Let the fountain flow through all my soul's affections and powers. Let it flow out through my lips, speaking Your praise and love. Let my body be Your temple, full of the divine life. Lord God, I believe You have given it to me. I accept it as mine. Grant that throughout Your church, the fullness of the Spirit may be sought and found, may be known and proved. Lord Jesus, our glorified King, let Your Church be full of the Holy Spirit. Amen
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Blessed Lord Jesus, with my whole heart I worship You as the baptizer with the Holy Spirit. Reveal Yourself to me, that I may know what I can expect from You. My holy Lord, I thank You that the Holy Spirit is also in me. Give me the full, overflowing measure You have promised. Let Him be to me the full, unceasing revelation of Your presence in my heart. Lord Jesus, baptize me and fill me with the Holy Spirit. Amen
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Our Father, reveal to Your Church that we are Christ's own body, sharing with Him in His life, His powers, and His glory. Show us how the Holy Spirit, as the bearer of that life and power and glory, is waiting to reveal it within us. In the name of Jesus, revive Your Church. Make every believer a temple, full of the Holy Spirit. Make every church a consecrated company that testifies of a present Christ, awaiting the fullness of the power from on high. Make every preacher of the Word a minister of the Spirit. And let Pentecost be the sign throughout the earth that Jesus reigns, that His redeemed are His Body, that His Spirit works, and that every knee will bow to Him. Amen
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My Father, I ask You to teach me that I have the power of the living Jesus. I desire that the power be a divine strength in human weakness, so that the glory may be Yours alone. May I learn to receive it in a faith that allows Jesus to hold the power and do the work in the midst of my weakness. May Jesus be so present with me that my witness may be of Him alone. I desire to submit my whole being to this divine power. I bow before His rule every day and all day long. I humble myself to do all His commands. Father, let the power of Your Spirit rule in me so that I can be ready to be used. May my one purpose in life be that Your blessed Son receive the honor and the glory. Amen
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Most Holy God, we confess with shame how much our worship has been in the power and the will of the flesh. We have dishonored You by this, grieved Your Spirit, and brought infinite loss to our own souls. Forgive us and save us from this sin. Teach us never to attempt to worship You except in Spirit and in truth. O Father, Your Holy Spirit dwells in us. Strengthen us, with power, by Him, that our inner man may indeed be a spiritual temple, where spiritual sacrifices are unceasingly offered. Teach us to yield self and the flesh, and wait for the Spirit to create in us worship acceptable to You, through Christ Jesus. We ask in the name of Jesus. Amen
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Lord God, I thank You again for the wonderful gift of the indwelling Spirit. Father, give me the Spirit of wisdom. May I know how deeply spiritual each word of Yours is and may I know that spiritual things can only be spiritually discerned. Teach me in all my contact with Your Word to deny the flesh and the fleshly mind, and to wait in deep humility and faith for the inward working of the Spirit to quicken the Word. May my meditation of Your Word, my keeping of it in faith and obedience, be in Spirit and in truth, in life and in power. Amen
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Blessed Lord Jesus, I do believe. Help my unbelief and perfect the work of faith in me. Teach me that the Holy Spirit and His power is the glory that You give to us. Teach me to hold these blessed truths in my mind, but with my spirit, to wait on You, for your Spirit to fill me.

Lord, I bow before Your glory in humble faith. Let all the life of self and the flesh be brought low and perish as I worship and wait before You. Let the Spirit of glory become my life. Let Your presence break down all trust in self and make room for You. Let my life be one of faith to the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. Amen
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Lord Jesus, You have sent forth Your Holy Spirit into our hearts to be the power that lives and acts in our innermost being and to give us the revelation of Yourself. Bring Your church to see this truth that has been so hidden and lost - to experience it and bear witness to it in power. May every true believer have the indwelling and the leading of Your Spirit. Teach me, my Lord, to wait on You, as by Your Spirit, You work within me. May I constantly be aware that Christ's Spirit dwells in me. Amen

~Andrew Murray~