A Prayer of Surrender: The Offering

Each day we accumulate thoughts, memories, experiences, and desires. It’s easy to carry our yesterdays into our today’s and our today’s into our tomorrows giving us that much more to manage, store and process. There is a both a feeling of being depleted and overly full as the load gets heavier and heavier. It can becomes hard to move forward in peace and with clarity. In these moments, may we recognize the need to let go and have the wisdom to seek God’s face for healing and direction. In order to move forward we must first surrender…

Dear God,

There is so much going on in my heart and running through my mind

I need to find a way forward in peace, I can’t carry it all

The weight of the past, the responsibilities of the present and the desires for the future

In this moment, I surrender to You

From the beginning to the end of each hope and dream, opportunity and obstacle

Come what may as time ticks on I declare that my trust in You will grow strong 

You are the foundation I choose to stand on  

Your spirit is everlasting 

Your power all consuming

Your love forever renewing

As sure as the sun and moon rise and set, You are with me 

You will never leave me or fail me  

And in every heartbeat and every breath I acknowledge that You gift me the power to choose how I will be used.: For good or evil? To build or break? To shrink or grow?

With each word and each decision

Each observation and each response  

I choose to trust and obey

To believe You and break free

Head bowed and arms stretched wide, I give you every hurt, betrayal, and rejection

Every doubt, worry , fear, and failure…Every memory 

In this moment I offer it all to you

My father and healer.

My rock and my shield

I ask in faith that You fill me with peace and strengthen me with love

You allowed me to wake up with the ability to think, feel, connect and share 

Help me step fully into this day, to embrace it

Help me to choose to live, progress, become and give

As I act in Your wisdom and by Your grace 

Fill what is empty

Smooth what is twisted 

Clear what is blocked 

And mend what is wounded

I acknowledge all that “was”

accept the challenge of what “is”

and decide to build what “will be” 

Thank You Lord for being with me and working through me in Jesus name I courageously pray,

Amen `

Matthew 16:24 

Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me,

let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

Proverbs 3:5-6 

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Psalms 9:10

Those who know your name trust in you,

for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.

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