Holy Spirit, please receive my prayer today and accomplish the following for me. I am convinced that what I need to live out the Father’s plan will never originate or terminate with me. I need Your active and empowering presence in my life as You are God – God within me and God within Your church. Lord Jesus, Son of God, I praise You for the glorious work of redemption that You accomplished when You were walking this earth. When You cried out that it is finished, You literally meant that Your great assignment was completed in perfection. You did that for me and I am unspeakably grateful to You. I rejoice at the thought of You being seated bodily upon Heaven’s perfect throne. You told Your disciples that it was good for You to go away so that the Comforter would come. You commanded those disciples to wait for the promise of the Father before they began to advance Your Kingdom. They waited and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, came on the Day of Pentecost and I am immeasurably happy to understand that He is still with us even unto today. I ask You, again, Holy Spirit, to grant these petitions as I am convinced that, should You not do so, I will do absolutely nothing meaningful or lasting with my life. To succeed in life apart from You would be devastating to me. Help me, and anyone reading my words today, to live in confident desperation that we cannot hazard any more days giving You lip service and theological nods while living in practical independence from You. Please remember my requests below and receive all the ones to follow in the future to the degree that they are consistent with Your holy nature. I love You, Holy Spirit, and though I have often thought and spoken and studied with greater emphasis on the Father and the Son, please pardon my past hesitancy and know that today and hereafter I will endeavor to acknowledge and revere You as God in my life.
Please let me never be hesitant or fearful and tell myself that it is humility.
Please never permit me to be miserly with my money and misrepresent it as being responsible for my personal future.
Please do not allow me to harden my heart to the plight of the destitute, victimized, hurting and lonely because I have permitted myself to believe that the need is too great and that I cannot make a difference.
Please empower me to say all that You would have me to say without a hint of fear about being misunderstood or misquoted. When I am deliberate and calculating I become ineffective. Please empower me to be obedient to You and free in my expression of that obedience.
Please muzzle me if I am ever tempted to tone down someone else in whose heart you have put radical vision and commitment. Squash me if i try to talk sense into someone whom You are leading into an illogical endeavor.
Please give me favor with generations coming behind me as I know that I am no longer among those who are the youngest. Let me inspire my children and their peers to hunger for You and to be convinced of their need for You.
Please anoint for me all that You appoint for me. I cannot bear the thought of life and ministry being accomplished in my own power with my own resources. Impart to my life the element of the regularly inexplicable.
Please fill me. Please fill me. Please fill me. Most of us do not fully comprehend what this means or how to cooperate with the process. All I know is that I want you more than my native tongue can articulate and that today’s fullness will not suffice for tomorrow’s assignments.
Please keep from me the small life. Never let me live for money or success or notoriety. Please let me be a man of substance to Amy and Alicia and Landon. Please increase my love for the flock I tend to – if they cannot see that You are great through my life then I am not serving them well.
Please bring to the ground all that seeks to rise up and challenge my love for You. Win me, at all costs, until nothing is left contested.
If You will aid me, I will not waste my life on good things. You have delivered me from so much that was bad. Please let me not become the slave to the good. Holy Spirit, if You will keep me hungry for the best thing then I know it will remain my feast. I will not rest apart from the thing which You have for me. Remember my prayers and infect anyone who is willing to pray likewise with similar desires which You tailor for them. Rescue us from the lesser. Remain our joy while we are here below. Give us nothing less to us and remain relentless with us, especially if we ever become casual or indifferent to You and Your purposes. It is then when we most need You.
I have learned so much from your teaching and I thank you very much. The fruit of the Holy Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control, Galations 5:22. So we have this good fruit living in us. If we die to self daily and let the Holy Spirit be our guide, all of these good fruits should be ours in abundance. I used to think you could tell a Christian by their love.Now I think we can tell a Christian by their fruits. In my life, I notice I enjoy these fruits, if I surrender all to the leading of the Holy Spirit. I praise you, God, and give you all the glory!
Such a good prayer/thank you for sharing with us// i want my life to be pleasing to my Lord and to never bring shame on my famuly or my church family/may God bless you/I dowatch your sermons on sundays when I cannot make it to my own church/keep up the good work