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.

random signposts

“Things are more like they are now than they ever have  been before”–Dwight Eisenhower

“On my planet, we laugh once in awhile”–a button given to me by my daughter

“Love Wins”–bumper sticker on a local Heating Company service van

“Visualize Whirled Peas”–bumper sticker on what was left of a once proud Volkswagen Golf

“If it cries, pick it up”–from the Journals of Lazarus Long

“Lonely by day, empty and cold.  Only to say, ‘Lo and Behold.’  Deep in the night, down in my dreams, glorious sight this soul has seen.  There’s a well on the hill.  You just can’t kill for Jesus.  There’s a well on the hill.  Let it be!  Don’t you build no heathen temple where the Lord has done laid His Hand now.  There’s a well on the hill.  Let it be!…Everyone’s talkin’ bout the Gospel story.  Some shall sink and some shall rise.  Everyone’s talkin’ ’bout the ‘Train to Glory.’  It’s a long long time until it gets here…”–James Taylor

“No government on earth can make men who have realized freedom in their hearts salute against their will.”–Gandhi

“In nothing is the power of the dark lord more clearly seen than in the enmity that still divides those who stand against him.”  Haldir to Legolas in Lorien…J.R.R. Tolkein