Thought 357
Take me and Break me
Our cry needs to be to
the Lord, O! How I cannot do anything in my own strength, like Ecclesiastes
declares: everything I do in my strength is meaningless, yet O Lord! Your
purpose and your plans for my for my life are not meaningless! Lord kill my
pride, help me reject my will. O Lord, not my will, but Yours be done!!! Lord,
be my Shelter and my Fortress, my Shield, my Provider, my Everlasting Father,
my Good God, my Prince of Peace! May You direct my paths, answer my cries,
defend my defenselessness; may You rage my war, may You give me strength, may You
work in me to take every thought captive to You, O Lord, direct my paths! O
Lord give me patience to wait on you. O Lord, may You give me the strength to
climb out of bed early each day to dedicate it to You, to invest in prayer, to
speak with You and be strengthened, for You have promised as a strengthen my
inner man when I wait on You. Lord, give me a passion and hunger to study and
meditate on Your Word. Lover and keeper my soul, let my sin not lead me astray,
but keep me ever close in Your loving arms and strengthen me for the battles in
which You will come out victorious in my future. And in the life of my wife,
and my children, and my sisters, and my brothers, and my parents, and my
cousins, and Your people, and Your messengers, O Lord, give them strength!
Protect Israel, O Lord, bless them though they don’t deserve it, and bless Your
people, though we don’t deserve it. Deliver us from evil and teach us Your ways
as only You can. Amen . . . . and amen. . . . . . take me and break me . . .
make me useable for Your will.
