A Prayer From Jail

A Prayer From Jail
5/8/2023, 5:30 AM

Father, there’s so much of me that I still need to surrender to you.

I need to surrender my will. Like Much-Afraid in “Hinds Feet on High Places,” it seems that I need to sacrifice my will more than once. It seems to just keep popping up, causing trouble.

So Father, here I am, surrendering my will to you once more.

Accept my sacrifice and consume my will with your holy fire, leaving nothing but ashes to be blown away by the wind.

And Father, remove from me the root of selfish love. Consume that love with your fire as well. Cause the seed of your love, that you have planted in my heart, to flourish and grow. May your love grow within me until I am full of nothing other than you.

As I feed your love within me with your Word, I need you to provide the life-giving water to cause it to grow.

Holy Spirit, live in me. Move in me. Teach me to stay out of your way; to allow you to live and move through me.

That is my victory… You!
I will live in victory to the extent that I allow you to live in and through me.

Father use this time to teach and condition me to allow You to reign in me.

Take your place on the throne of my life.

I’m not my own; I have been bought with a price.

Take possession of all that remains of me and prune me. Remove all the branches that bear bad fruit – or no food at all. Cultivate those branches that bear good fruit until I bear good fruit with my whole being.

Oh God, I serve you! I serve none but you.

Take me.
I offer myself as a living sacrifice.

May nothing remain in me that isn’t you.

Awaken the new me.
Bury the old me in a grave.
Hide the location of that grave from me, so I can’t return to dig it back up.
I want nothing more to do with the old me.