MARKETPLACE PRAYER 2

Father,

Thank you for this day.  For new beginnings and fresh mercy and anointing every morning.  I want to stop everything and bow before you today again…to worship you.
And Lord Jesus, I want to tell you afresh today how much I love you and need to be with you.  And want a clear sense of your presence moment by moment in my life.  You are my focus.  You are my reason to be.  I want to weigh everything in my life, my relationships, my activities, my business, against the standard of your measure.  Nothing else will do. 

Lord, the responsibilities of the day can seem overwhelming.  Like Israel when Pharoah doubled their workload.  But I choose this day to focus on You.  On your kindness.  Your generosity.  Your good intent for me.  I am yours.  Empty me of all vain thoughts and pursuits and let me be guided by Your Spirit.  Let me be free from the tyranny of the urgent and the tyranny of self, free to hear from you  clearly and pursue the best rather than simply the good.  Let me never settle for mediocrity.  Make your glory known through the works of my hands and heart and mind.  My words and my deeds. 

Let me know what it means to prophesy to the winds, to call forth life, to walk Nehemiah’s night watch and be a repairer of the breaches.  Let me live my life with eyes wide open like the prophet’s servant and the sons of Issachar, discerning and seeing as you see and knowing what to do. 

Let me be more in love with you tomorrow than I am today.  Align my heart with yours.  Holy Spirit, teach me, fill me, guide me, use me in every way possible.   Send your angelic servants to do your will in my life and sphere of influence.

You are SO worthy of my attention, my fascination, my obsession, my passion.  Let me stay here in your presence.  In your Fire!  Your Holy Fire.  Consume all that is not of you.  Accept it as an offering. Accept the offering of my life today.  Thank you for our daily bread.  Forgive my sins, stumblings and my choices to remain distant in areas.  Keep me from temptation and deliver me from the schemes of the enemy.  Your Kingdom Come.  Your Will be done.  All the glory, power, and authority are yours.  I love you.

MARKETPLACE PRAYER

Father,

I begin this week and this and this season by laying all my “times” before you because you are the one who gives me any time on this earth at all.  I lay down my priorities, my needs, my desires, my responsibilities, because you are the author and finisher of my faith, the redeemer of my time, the lover of my soul, the giver of wisdom, my teacher, my provider.  And I know that in myself I can do nothing, but I can do ALL things in Christ who strengthens me. Fill me fresh with your Holy Spirit today.  Guide my hands, my heart, my mind, and all my efforts.  I cast all my cares on you, because you care for me.  Your Word says that your mercies are renewed every morning.  Renew your mercies this morning toward me and my family.  You are my protector.  Send your angelic ministers of fire this day to protect, bring your revelation, and work your marvelous will.  It is you who gives power to get wealth.  Wealth of all types.  I want to be your man in every way.  Fill your storehouse.  Allow me to live in a way that brings pain or harm to no one.  To honor you.  Enlarge my territory that I might bring glory to your name and be an agent for your Kingdom.  Lord Jesus, thank you this morning for EVERYTHING.  Holy Spirit, I welcome you to have your way with me.  Bless those with whom I come in contact throughout the day.  Bless my conversations and activities.  Open my eyes to every divine appointment and opportunity.  Tenderize my heart and spirit this day to the slightest promptings of your desires and voice.  Let me do and say only what I see and hear from you. 

I give you this day, this week…because you are worthy.  Because I want to grow to love you more and more.  And to be more and more sensitive to your love and will.  The world of the marketplace is a roar of news and information, of conflicting demands and opinions, of distractions and white noise.  Everywhere the voices of men call out with worldly wisdom and bad reports, curses and offers of earthly power and blessing.  This is why I need to be more and more intimate with you.  To give myself more and more to the “one thing” of being at your feet and listening.  I love you.  And I would be the man who hears from you in the midst of the din.  I would stand quiet and listen while the storms rage, to hear your voice, speak your word, and quiet the storms.  I would lift you up.  This is my desire.  To live and move and have my very being in you moment by moment.  Worthy is the Lamb.  Worthy.  Worthy.  Worthy.