A Prayer

Have you confessed to God all the known sins of your heart?  Have you confessed even the secret sins that are known only by you?  Are you ready for the Holy Spirit to take complete control of your inner being?  Are you ready to sacrifice now and forever the demands of ego so that the Holy Spirit has full authority in your life?  Are you fed up with spiritual mediocrity and a spiritual life empty of power?  Are you truly hungry for God?  Do you desire a walk with God that is filled with more intimacy than ever experienced in the past?  Do you want your heart to belong completely to God?

 

If the answer to all of these questions is "yes"  then the prayer David prayed long centuries ago is a prayer to be prayed in these very moments  "Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me."  (Psalms 51:10)  Remember in these moments of praying something else written by the Psalmist, "The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, You will not despise."  (Psalms 51:17)  Know that what you are about in this praying is a response to God's Word which invites all of us "to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God..."  (Romans 12:1) 

 

Believe as you believed when you said "yes" to Jesus and accepted Him as your Savior.  Know that even as faith was then the only right response to God's grace, so is it in this moment of praying. Pray in faith that God would indeed sanctify and purify your heart so that you are cleansed and made completely whole.  Know that this work of the heart is not something you can do through any ritual or words.  God is the only One who can bring purity to your heart.  Believe.  Believe that this is true and trust Him to accomplish now this work of grace in you.