If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died--more than that, who was raised to life--is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
(Romans 8)
what could possibly hold us back from throwing ourselves into the Spirit, from praying with all of our strength and might? what is there to fear? what are we waiting for?
It is written:
"'As surely as I live,' says the Lord, 'every knee will bow before me; every tongue will confess to God.'"
(Romans 14)
it's going to happen. let's pray for it to happen... NOW. for every knee to bow, every tongue proclaiming truth, and the natural response--WORSHIP. PRAISE to our FATHER, to JESUS who REIGNS.
WE WANT TO SEE YOUR KINGDOM COME.
YOU ARE THE SOVEREIGN KING.
MIGHTY GOD, WE CAN'T EVEN FATHOM YOUR POWER AND GREATNESS.
WE WANT TO KNOW THE LENGTH, DEPTH, HEIGHT, WIDTH, THE FULLNESS OF YOUR LOVE.
HOLY SPIRIT, COME. we beg you to COME. SWEEP OVER THIS CAMPUS, COME LIKE A RUSHING WIND AND BLOW OUR MINDS.
we will be obedient, and You will be faithful.
take the chains that get in the way of what You want.
we trust you.
If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.
(John 7)
OPEN OUR EYES TO SEE THE HOW THIS CAMPUS, THIS NATION, THIS WORLD, IS DROWNING IN HUNGER AND THIRST.
SET OUR HEARTS ON FIRE, CONSUME US, PURGE US, PURIFY US, INSTILL IN US A BURNING DESIRE, A HUNGER AND THIRST FOR YOU, FOR YOUR FACE, TO SEE YOU AND KNOW YOU, TO TOUCH YOU AND FEEL YOU, TO LOVE YOU AND BE LOVED BY YOU.
THEN, COME AGAIN.
DRAW NEAR, DEEPLY, PENETRATE US TO THE DEPTHS OF OUR BEING. RAIN DOWN, POUR OUT YOUR LIVING WATER AND FILL OUR HEARTS MINDS SOULS ENTIRE BEINGS, OUR EMPTY AND BROKEN VESSELS, POUR POUR POUR POUR OUT UNTIL YOUR LOVE, YOUR SPIRIT, YOUUUUU OVERFLOW ONTO EVERYONE AROUND US, NEAR US, ALL OF YOUR CHILDREN.
BE GLORIFIED. YOU WILL BE GLORIFIED. YOUR GOSPEL WILL BE SPREAD ACROSS THE ENTIRE WORLD. YOUR NAME WILL BE PRAISED AND ALL WILL KNOW THAT YOU ARE GOD. ALL THAT YOU HAVE MADE WILL WORSHIP YOU IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH.
YOU ARE VICTORIOUS. YOU ALREADY HAVE THE VICTORY. CAN WE BE A PART OF IT? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE? WE'RE HERE, WE'RE READY (as ready as we'll ever be).
WE DEMAND FREEDOM. CHAINS BROKEN. EYES OPENED. LIVES HEALED. ENCOUNTERS WITH YOU. INTIMACY. PEACE AND JOY. FREEDOM. if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. (John 8) ABBA, REVEAL YOUR WORKS. CAN WE SEE? CAN WE WITNESS IT ALL?
Have faith in God...I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. (Mark 11)
i know we should be careful what we ask for, if we pray for anything with faith, it will be given to us. ask, seek, knock...find. RIGHT, SO LET'S PRAY. BOLDLY. FEARLESSLY. let's be absolutely, irrevocably, wonderfully ruined with Love.
THIS IS OUR PRAYER:
The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.
(Luke 4)
DADDY, please. HELP us do your works. because we are weak, but you are so strong. we fall short, so short. but YOU, you are AMAZING. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Your love endures forever.
I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me uot of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. he put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord. Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not look to the proud, to those who turn aside to false gods. Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders you have done. The things you planned for us no one can recount to you; were I to speak and tell of them, they would be too many to declare. Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but my ears you have pierced; burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require. Then I said, "Here I am, I have come--it is written about me in the scroll. I desire to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart." (Psalm 40)
Here I am. Here-- here's my heart. Take it, break it, mold it, fill it. And be glorified.
for who are we? that you are MINDFUL of us? that you call us precious, valuable, children?
what have we done to deserve your love? it's always been about you, what you've done, who you are, how you love us.
YOU deserve ALL THE PRAISE, ALL THE CREDIT, ALL THE PROPS AND KUDOS. YOU, CREATOR AND KING, DADDY, YOU are the BEST.
NOT TO US, BUT TO YOUR NAME BE ALL THE GLORY AND HONOR.
Psalm 145.
we love you.
more significantly, inexplicably, powerfully, amazingly, and for which we will be eternally grateful,
you love us.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Romans 8)
-gk
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