Prayers

Prayers

Father, show me all that hinders the Spirit from taking full possession of me and filling me with the consciousness of His presence. Let my innermost being and my outer life all be under His leading. May I have the spiritual understanding that knows to ask according to Your will, and the living faith that receives what it asks. And when I do not know what or how to pray, teach me to bow in silent worship and keep waiting before You, knowing that the Spirit breathes the wordless prayer, which You alone can understand. Blessed God, I am a temple of the Holy Spirit. I yield myself for Him to use me as the Spirit of intercession. May my whole heart be so filled with the longing for Christ's honor and His love for the lost that my life may become one unutterable cry for the coming of Your kingdom. Amen
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O my Father, I desire this day to walk before You with a good conscience, to do nothing that might grieve You or my blessed Lord Jesus. May the cleansing in the blood be a living, continual, and most effective deliverance from the power of sin, binding and strengthening me to serve You. May my whole walk with You be in the joy of the united witness of conscience and Spirit that I am pleasing to You. Amen
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O Lord, teach Your church that wherever Christ as the power of God is not manifested, it is because He is so little known as the wisdom of God. Teach Your church to lead each child of God to the personal teaching and revelation of Christ within. Show us, O God, that the one great hindrance is our own wisdom, our imagining that we can understand the Word and truth of God. Teach us to become fools that we may be wise. May our whole life become one continued act of faith, that the Holy Spirit will surely do His word of teaching, guiding, and leading into the truth. We wait for this. Amen
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Teach us to know how the flesh can be conquered and its power broken. In the death of Your beloved Son, our old nature has been crucified. May we consider all things as loss to be made comformable to that death, and may we have the old nature kept in the place of death. We yield ourselves to the leading and rule of Your Holy Spirit. We believe that Christ is our life through the Spirit so that, instead of the life of effort and work, an entirely new life works within us. Our Father, by faith, we give up all to Your Spirit to be our life in us. Amen
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Gracious God, let us hear Your call to be spiritual. Strengthen our faith that we may be filled with the confidence that the Holy Spirit will do His work to make us spiritual. We desire to cease from self and doubt. We give ourselves to Jesus our Lord, to rule in us and to reveal Himself by the Spirit. We bow before You in the childlike faith that Your Spirit, the Spirit of God, dwells in us every moment. May our souls increasingly be filled with holy awe and reverence at His presence. Grant that we may be mightily strengthened by Him in the innermost man. Then we shall be truly spiritual. Amen
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Lord God, I do now accept the blessed truth: God the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, who is God Almighty, dwells in me. Blessed Jesus, I yield my whole being to You. I trust You to rise up in power and have dominion within me. Blessed Spirit, You are within me. On You do I wait all the day. I belong to You. Take entire possession of me for the Father and the Son. Amen
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Our Holy God, draw us mightily into Your holy presence and keep us waiting there. Deliver us from the terrible fascination with the world and the flesh so that Your divine glory may be our all-absorbing desire. May our whole heart be emptied to receive the Holy Spirit's revelation of Christ within. We desire to take Your words and let them dwell richly in us. We desire in stillness of soul to be silent unto God and wait for Him. We desire to trust and believe that the Father has given us His Spirit within us and is in secret working to reveal His Son. We do live the life of faith. We do believe in the Holy Spirit. Amen
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Lord Jesus, look upon Your church, look upon our hearts. And, whatever You see that there is not love like Yours, deliver us from all that is still selfish and unloving. Teach us to crucify self, which cannot love. Teach us to believe that we can love, because the Holy Spirit has been given to us. Teach us to begin to love and serve, to sacrifice self, and live for others. May love with action be increased and perfected in us. Teach us to believe that because You live in us. You love is in us, too. Now, we can love as You do, Lord Jesus. Amen
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Blessed Lord, may every believer know the Spirit that is in him and is in his brother. In all lowliness and love, help us to keep the unity of the Spirit with those with whom we come into contact. May all the leaders of Your church be enlightened from above. May the unity of the Spirit be more to them than all human bonds of union in creed or church order. May all who have put on the Lord Jesus above all things also put on love, the bond of perfectness. Lord Jesus, draw Your people in united prayer to the footstool of Your throne of glory. Fill us with Your Spirit, and we shall be one - one Spirit and one body. Amen

~Andrew Murray~

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