January 26, 2010

  • Lord, teach us to pray once again: "rising very early in the morning"

    Continuing on from my post "May we learn to value the blood bought privilege of prayer" with some reflections on prayer which I'm titling, "Lord, teach us to pray once again." I would encourage you to read/pray through that post in addition to this one.

    Lord Jesus, we saw You, Immanuel, while You were in the flesh here, fully God and fully man, tempted as we are and yet without sin...intentionally slipping away, purposefully taking time to withdraw alone so You might pray and commune with Your Father.

    Mark 1:35 And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed. 

    Lord God, You have already taught us to pray...
    Yet we are so slow to learn...
    Father, have mercy on us.
    Forgive us, for Jesus' sake.
    Though we are slow to learn we come to You and ask us to teach us.

    We confess we so often want to busy ourselves with working and doing,
    but we forget that one of main works You call us to is the work of prayer.
    Lord Jesus, You keep seeking Your Father's face in prayer, should we not do the same?
    You died on the cross so we might come into Your presence and pray.

    We love You, but we confess our love for You is so weak and incomplete.
    We know there is no way we can follow Your devotion and dedication in prayer about from Your power to do so.
    May Your Holy Spirit place into our hearts a deeper love for You.
    Put into our hearts a deeper desire to know You so we might pant, hunger and thirst after You.
    We confess we so often pant, hunger and thirst after things in this world.
    We confess we often do not make that time to arise very early in the morning.
    The next thing we know it is very late at night and we have not prayed, not really prayed as we ought,
    but we have spent time doing so many other things, even good things.
    O, we may have prayed, but have we really, really prayed and met You in deep fellowship?

    O, Lord God, You are the center of our lives.
    Without You we are and we have nothing.
    Without You we would be lost, but now we have been found.
    Without You we were not a people, but now we are a people.
    We are the people of God; You are our Father.
    Yet how often do we act childish and not come to You in prayer.
    Restore to us childlike spirits, so we might seek Your face constantly.

    Your Spirit dwells in us and has given us the Spirit of adoption so we might say, "Abba, Father!"
    Yet, how often do we say those words?
    Do we save "Abba, Father" only for our times of dire need and desperation?
    How foolish we are. Every moment, every day of our lives is a time of need.
    Apart from Your Spirit showing us, we see ourselves as rich and needing nothing.
    Show us our poverty and our neediness.
    We are poor and needy, and we have nothing apart from You.
    We are poor and needy, and we can do nothing apart from You.
    You are to be the center of our lives.
    You are to be the center of our days.
    You are to be the center of all we do.
    Just as You placed Your holy tabernacle in the center of all the tribes of Israel,
    You are to be placed in the center of the Church, in the center of each of our lives.
    Forgive us when we put other thing in the center rather than You.
    Teach us to number our days and to make the most of the time we have here.
    Lord, have mercy on us.
    Lord, teach us to pray once again.

Comments (3)

  • Father, have mercy on us, sinners. I pray that we would continually be able to be content in whatever circumstances we are in. Though sometimes the world seems bleak let us remember that you are there with us always. Help us always to be like children, humble in spirit and easy to trust in others. Lord, we come in prayer for all seasons, for there is never a time we do not need you nor can allow ourselves to stop praising you. In Christ's name, Amen.

  • Lord, grant us the discernment to "see the forest for the trees." Case in point: Martha was scrambling around prepping the meal while Mary sat at Jesus' feet, taking in "the one thing needful"

    In Jesus' Name

    Amen

  • ("I Need Thee Every Hour" playing")

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The phrase tent of meeting comes from Exodus 33:7: Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.

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