So whatever you desire to do in this house today, Lord, have your way.
-- Joe Pace

Dear God, at the beginning of the year, I asked you to grant me a life journey that would be purposeful and prosperous. I asked you for peace and prayed as Jabez did asking you to bless me, increase my province, and keep evil away from me so that I would not hurt or hurt anybody else. In return, I promised to keep your commandments, revere the Word by studying and sharing it with others, and worship you in prayer, song, fellowship, service, and through tithes and offerings.

God, it’s now a little past mid-year, and while I have a list of amazing accomplishments, peppered with occasional disappointments, you know I’ve only grated the surface of meeting you where I told you I’d go. And though you’ve done exactly what you said you’d do, I know I’ve got to go beyond and deeper to grasp the blessings that would make my life richer, substantial, and more worthwhile.

Even more honestly, Lord, I know now, more than ever, that “putting a hand to the plow and looking back” (Luke 9:62) has lost me some ground. I know that operating in a way that feels good or familiar has left me feeling hollow and keeps me going back to the place that has me running in circles chasing and biting my tail. I know that after I gave my word to follow your Word, I turned back to errant behavior that sidetracked my path and diverted my attention. Jesus, I didn’t mean for this to happen; I’ve lost my focus. The good grasp I set on my goals and the blessings I asked you for seem so out of reach now.

Lord, I’m asking now, and once again, that you have your way in me. Move me out of the way so that you can do the work on me that’s necessary. Help me Jesus to let go so you can move in me in a way I’ve never allowed you to. Lord God, I know now that in order to receive what you have for me, I must still my Self and what I believe to be the answer and allow you to have your way.

Yes, God, I’m stubborn. I’m pig-headed and an occasional know-it-all, though I’d never admit it to anybody but you (even though you already know). But God I know you’re bigger than all my pride and other idiosyncrasies, and the mighty hand I asked that you place upon me can change my peculiarities into something wonderful before you. Lord, move me. Make me who’d you have me be. Send me where you want me be. And, please Jesus, remove the fear and doubt that keep me from going where you say, that keep me flying under the radar, living on the surface, and believing myself hidden from your commands on my life.

You assure me, Jesus, time and again that it ain’t about me, though I leave my door each day believing that it is. But I know, dear God, that it’s about you and your purpose for my life. Lord, help me live that. Help me keep that at the front of my mind and let nothing come out of my head without having been censored and cleaned up by the thought of your Will.

God, you know none of this is easy for me, but I trust you to guide me and show me how to make it all work. I’m grabbing hold of the plow again and I’m not looking back. I’m here to do your work, Lord, to live by your Word, build your kingdom, and I’m moving out of the way so you can have your way – the way that is precious, perfect, and divine. Whatever you desire to do Lord, have your way in me today and all my days.

This I pray in your perfect name. Amen.

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