Prayer For Intimacy With God
Dear Lord Jesus, I don't know how old Paul was when he was when he wrote these remarkable wordsmaybe in his sixties or seventiesbut it's obvious, that with an increase in age came an increase in gospel astonishment. He never grew bored exploring the unsearchable riches of Jesus; and he never seemed to tire of wrestling with the kingdom implications of the gospelfor the world in which you placed him, and for the heart that beat within his breast
Jesus, make me that kind of man. Give me this kind of passion, joy and maturity in the gospel. I'm thankful that it's your grasp of me, and not my grasp of you, that defines this way of life; for sometimes I lift my hands in awe and gratitude for the way you love me. Sometimes I shake my fists at heaven like a pouting, demanding child. Sometimes I wring my hands in anxious unbelief, like a hapless orphan or spoiled toddler. But I live, and I will die, secure in your palmsconfident that I am written upon your heartbeloved and betrothed to you.
Lord Jesus, I praise you that, as with Paul, you've given me a prize to win, not a wage to earn. Your finished work forever finished any notion of performance-based spirituality. I never earned my way into a relationship with you, and I don't maintain a relationship with you by my striving, earnestness or works either. But as the gospel is the end of earning, it's not the end of effort; so intensify my zeal for laying hold of that free and glorious prize in front of methe fullness of life in the new heaven and new earth
So what do I want for the rest of my days, Jesus? I cannot say it any better than Paul, Lord: I want to know you better and better and bettermore intimately than ever (Phil. 3:10-11). This is the one thing I want, more than anything else, because it effects everything else. Renew and refresh, deepen and expand, stretch and broaden my relationship with you.
And I want to experience more of the power of your resurrectionpower to know more of your love (Eph. 3:14-21); power to love others as you love us (Jn. 13:34-35); power to live in your story, to your glory with the joy you alone can give.
And I want to enter more fully into the fellowship of sharing in your sufferingsliving with the birth pangs of new-creation life in this broken worlda world which groans for its release from the bondage to decay, a release that is sure to come (Rom. 8:18-25). I am so thankful to know that our labors in you are not in vain, Lord Jesus (1 cor. 15:58).
This is what I long for the gospel to effect in my heart. Help me to have way done with lesser things and be more taken up with the things which matter most to your heart. So very Amen I pray, in your most glorious and loving name.
O God, my God! How I search for you! How I thirst for you in this parched and weary land where there is no water. How I long to find you! How I wish I could go into your sanctuary to see your strength and glory, for your love and kindness are better to me than life itself. How I praise you! I will bless you as long as I live, lifting up my hands to you in prayer. At last I shall be fully satisfied; I will praise you with great joy.
My God and father, in Jesus name i ask you to let your will be done in my life. A closer walk with you is my daily crave. Please speak to me while teaching me to listen as i speak less to have your purpose fulfilled in me. Am weary and trying but seems at times am not retaining when i reading your words. Help me lord. Teach me to know all the things that is of, in, with, about and for you in my life be manifested. Lord Jesus please me seek you each day with joy and fulfillment that i will no longer b weary or sleepy in any part of it. I love you so much and need to make my life available to your evert request. Even if it means sending your man and woman servant to guided the misguided. You know my heart and your plan are greater than the ones for my self so i leave all my situations n daily struggles to you and decide to seek out to know you more to fulfill my purpose. What ever i forget to mansion please fail not to show your compassion. Amen.
Lord, thank you that I can meet with you each day, speak with you and listen to you. Help me to hear what you are saying to me and to live today in this relationship of intimacy, simplicity and obedience.
Father, thank you that you have given me the Spirit of adoption by which I can cry, Abba, Father'. Thank you that you call me into the same relationship of intimacy that Jesus had with you. Help me to grow in this relationship of intimacy, simplicity and obedience. And to grow in wisdom and stature and in favour with God and people.
My God and father, in Jesus name i ask you to let your will be done in my life. A closer walk with you is my daily crave. Please speak to me while teaching me to listen as i speak less to have your purpose fulfilled in me. Am weary and trying but seems at times am not retaining when i reading your words. Help me lord. Teach me to know all the things that is of, in, with, about and for you in my life be manifested. Lord Jesus please me seek you each day with joy and fulfillment that i will no longer b weary or sleepy in any part of it. I love you so much and need to make my life available to your evert request. Even if it means sending your man and woman servant to guided the misguided. You know my heart and your plan are greater than the ones for my self so i leave all my situations n daily struggles to you and decide to seek out to know you more to fulfill my purpose. What ever i forget to mansion please fail not to show your compassion. Amen.
Father,
I need Your involvement in every detail of my life. I'm lonely without you, adrift on a sea of indecision, going nowhere. I choose today to come near to you, to talk with you as a good friend, to share my heart, my desires, my remorse, and my pain. To hear you say, You are forgiven, my child. I hereby promise to seek you with everything that I am, and I audaciously receive the promise of your Word that you will not remain a mystery to me, but that I will find what my heart has been searching for all along: A Father who adores me, a Savior who suffered for me, and a Spirit who will never forsake me.
Amen