Our job is to consecrate (make or declare ourselves sacred or dedicate ourselves to God). He will do the rest. Trust Him with the outcome.
Great article on what it means to consecrate yourself to God HERE
Almighty God and Abba father, over these last several days I have tried to understand your love for me and my fellow humans. I don’t profess to understand your love, but I do know that you have blessed me in ways I could not have imagined. So please, dear father, help me remember your great love for me when I am faced with temptation, led to doubt your love, or wonder about my worthiness. I want your love to be reflected in my daily life. Thanks for loving mightily. Thanks for loving sacrificially. Most of all thanks for loving first.
Father, your love is so vast, so gracious and so life changing. I ask that you, Holy Spirit, would help change my heart to more perfectly reflect and glorify the Father.
Dear Lord, please help us tear down every wall that divides and separates your people. Forgive each other. Prejudice towards each other. Stir in us a deep longing to share the unity of heaven in our world today.
How can I ever thank you for your love and mercy demonstrated in the sacrifice of your Son for my sin? Please forgive me for those times that I have not shown my appreciation for your grace in the way I live my life.
Amen.
Quit procrastinating! The time is now! Answer God’s call on your life and start today! It will never be the perfect time or the perfect place or the perfect moment. Just do it!
“It’s okay to talk to God about your problems, but at some point you need to talk to your problems about God.” Mark Batterson Chase the Lion
Great prayer for random acts of violence and when random acts of violence occur to others. God will protect us from evil. Trust in Him.
Please forgive me, O God, for the times that I have hedged on my commitment to you and flirted with the darkness. I want to live for you with passion, joy, and fulfillment. I want to be transformed to be like Christ.
What joy fills my heart, Father, when I anticipate what it will be like in your presence— to have you wipe each tear from my eyes and to have you introduce me again to those I love and to those I’ve only known by reputation. Please never let me outlive that sense of anticipation and never let that hope dim in my heart, no matter what else may happen in my life here.
Father, I praise you for your holiness, majesty, and power. I thank you for your loving grace. I am humbled by your sacrificial love that has saved me. But today, dear father, I thank you most of all for your Holy Spirit, who lives in me, who empowers me, who cleanses me, who comforts me, and who makes your fatherhood accessible and real to me.
Amen.
Most of us know this verse or some form of it. But I at least need to be constantly reminded that it’s not about me. It’s about others and what I can do for them. Always and forever. Amen.