Lord,
pour out your Spirit upon me,
enter into my heart,
and lead me into fuller surrender.
Expand your presence in me,
overcoming, overtaking fears and anxieties,
driving out control and striving
with your comfort, power, and love.
You have my yes,
have your way in me,
gently expose,
remove the obstacles that have hindered
free reign of your Spirit and love.
Search me
and know my thoughts,
see if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
I bless you Lord.
Amen.
Lord,
Show me, teach me, help me
to surrender all to you.
I say yes in my spirit,
but don’t know how.
Please illuminate my heart,
reveal to my soul, my mind,
how I may let go.
My past, I give to you —
repenting of my sin, shame, and guilt,
receiving your forgiveness,
watching you go back in my past,
deleting all the files —
those moments, like I had never even sinned.
My future, I give to you —
so many expectations
of what I thought I needed to do,
and where I needed to be,
what I needed to look like,
absorbed from tradition, family,
culture, religion, and worldly systems
into my needy heart seeking approval,
that has only atrophied the soul you knit in me.
Yet your Spirit within has proved greater.
I surrender to your voice,
the pressures and flows of your Spirit,
buoying me into your paths,
safe within your love,
far outside my comfort,
fully alive and my soul rising and set free,
trusting you in the unknown,
casting my fears, anxieties, and worries upon you.
I surrender all my desires,
giving voice to each one,
entrusting them into your hand,
into your care,
because you know best.
I desire only your best for me,
so help me to surrender all
to receive from my Lord
and give praise to your Name.
Amen.
Lord,
Thank you that my life is in your hands.
I can shake off the burdens of my past,
the regrets and failures,
trusting you will work all things for my good,
and reveal to me the treasures hidden in darkness.
I praise you for your wisdom, discernment,
and counsel dispensed into my spirit,
your molding, pruning, and stretching;
forging me in your continuous flame of love
as I am being created in your image.
I forget what is behind,
you clear my vision for what lies ahead.
No more shadows looming in the future,
or expectations and assumptions I should fulfill,
but surrendered and free, I look to you today,
in this moment,
the gift of your presence with me,
let me run with you.
I bless you Lord.
Amen.
Abba,
hide me under the shadow of your wings,
let me dwell under the shelter of the Most High.
Draw me, deliver me out of Babylon,
expose the lure of independence,
being self made, chasing status,
mammon and material things,
all the sin that so easily entangles,
and set me free in You,
submitted to your Word,
truly alive in your Spirit.
Lord, let me love what you love,
and hate what you hate.
Let me delight myself in you,
put in me the desires of your heart,
shrivel away any desires that are not of you,
that my words, my heart, my life
would wholly align with your purposes,
and that my life would be yours
for your glory.
I bless you and praise you Lord.
Amen.
Lord,
let me see you clearly,
le me know you rightly,
believing your Word,
standing in your Truth,
tender to your Spirit.
Protect and deliver me
from the gimmicks, charisma,
deception, and hype that would tickle my ears,
shiny packages wrapped with your name
but devoid of you.
I ask for the fear of the Lord,
help me to understand your sacrifice,
everything you gave,
everything you demand,
counting the cost of following you.
I pray to surrender all
counting all things as loss
because of the treasure of knowing you,
so with joy, thanksgiving, and praise
I give my life to you.
I bless you Lord.
Amen.
Lord,
thank you for being my Savior,
redeeming my life from the pit,
I was lost in darkness, sin, and trauma,
grasping life for me,
for approval from the world,
slipping down a dangerous slope to death,
yet you saved me unto yourself,
healing and changing my heart,
giving me new desires,
renewing my mind,
transforming me,
I’m a new creation,
you’ve called me your own,
and saved me not only from death,
but to a greater purpose in you.
You’ve reawakened the call of eternity,
the whispers of your breath in my DNA,
calling me to your original design and intent,
what you created my spirit,
knit my soul, body, and mind to do.
I’m done fighting against you,
against your call, against the essence of your image within.
I surrender to you
saying yes with a whole heart
to live for your glory.
I have everything I need in you,
empowered by your Spirit
with access to all the spiritual blessings,
divine resources to fulfill your purposes in this generation.
I thank you that not only do you save,
you give life abundant
forever and ever.
I bless you and praise you Lord.
Amen.
Lord,
I worship you.
Son of God,
Son of man
made of skin, bone, and flesh,
yet filled with Holy Spirit,
stepping into time
making eternity known,
your Word, sacrifice, death, and resurrection.
your love, mercy, and grace,
Your presence is life,
you save and deliver,
you redeem and resurrect,
your wisdom is from above,
all your ways perfect and good.
There’s none like you,
holy, beautiful, unknowable God,
who has pursued and grasped my heart,
loved me into surrender,
and resurrected my life.
You alone are Lord,
King of kings,
the one true God.
and I praise you alone Lord,
Amen.
Lord,
Your Spirit comes like the wind,
blowing wherever you please,
you are God,
answering to none,
you fulfill your purposes
in your way, your time.
I ask you Lord…
for a heart that’s open, unoffended,
ready with a yes
to the doors you open
and the opportunities
you place in my path.
I ask for a spirit surrendered
of all my plans,
yielded to you,
that being obedient
would win over comfort,
over security.
Help me to prepare my heart
and my will in the waiting,
that when you call,
I will be ready,
no hesitation, no walls,
only a yes to you.
I trust you Lord,
let me be ready.
Amen.
Lord,
help me to care for my holy temple,
where lies the Holy of holies,
my conscious clear,
my heart right,
my thoughts at rest,
my body well,
so that I may tabernacle with you,
your Spirit comfortable and welcome,
dwelling in me,
having full rein.
Take over,
where I do what I don’t want to do,
conflicted in flesh and spirit,
reign victorious over me,
establishing your mercy, comfort, and grace.
Gain the territories I struggle to yield,
and grant me vision once more
of your beauty, holiness, peace, and rest.
Have your way in me Lord,
that I may be perfected in your image,
reflecting your love, your heart, your righteousness.
I cast myself into your waves of mercy
and I praise you for your saving grace.
Amen.
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