From Carolyn
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Lord, may we each sparkle in joyful service to you today so that we can allure (not harangue) others to you and your steadfast love. Thank you for Jesus and his love for each one.
As always, I welcome hearing your response to some part of this prayer.
I confess. I do love words. They convey, clarify, add color and are just plain intriguing to me. This morning as I prayed through a prayer in The Valley of Vision some words enthralled me as they pointed not only to the Lord but to a way for me to go about my day. Some of these words were: dawn, rejoicing, allure, delight, joy, sparkle, sunbeam, happy, praise, grace, guest and humility.
I invite you to pray this prayer and especially notice the words I have mentioned. I found it both bracing and challenging to make this prayer my own. Perhaps you would like make this a prayer for yourself today.
FATHER OF JESUS,
Dawn returns, but without thy light within no outward light can profit.
I invite you to pray this prayer and especially notice the words I have mentioned. I found it both bracing and challenging to make this prayer my own. Perhaps you would like make this a prayer for yourself today.
FATHER OF JESUS,
Dawn returns, but without thy light within no outward light can profit.
Give me the saving lamp of thy Spirit that I may see thee, the God of my salvation, the delight of my soul, rejoicing over me in love.
I commend my heart to thy watchful care, for I know its treachery and power;
Guard its every portal from the wily enemy,
Give me quick discernment of his deadly arts,
Help me to recognize his bold disguise as an angel of light, and bid him begone.
May my words and works allure others to the highest walks of faith and love!
May loiterers be quickened to greater diligence by my example.
May worldlings be won to delight in acquaintance with thee!
May the timid and irresolute be warned of coming doom by my zeal for Jesus!
Cause me to be a mirror of thy grace, to show others the joy of thy service.
May my lips be well-tuned cymbals sounding thy praise,
Let a halo of heavenly-mindedness sparkle around me and a light of kindness sunbeam my path.
Teach me the happy art of attending to things temporal with a mind intent on things eternal.
Send me forth to have compassion on the ignorant and miserable.
Help me to walk as Jesus walked, my only Saviour and perfect model, his mind my inward guest, his meekness my covering garb.
Let my happy place be amongst the poor in spirit, my delight the gentle ranks of the meek.
Let me always esteem others better than myself, and find true humility in heirdom to two worlds.
I commend my heart to thy watchful care, for I know its treachery and power;
Guard its every portal from the wily enemy,
Give me quick discernment of his deadly arts,
Help me to recognize his bold disguise as an angel of light, and bid him begone.
May my words and works allure others to the highest walks of faith and love!
May loiterers be quickened to greater diligence by my example.
May worldlings be won to delight in acquaintance with thee!
May the timid and irresolute be warned of coming doom by my zeal for Jesus!
Cause me to be a mirror of thy grace, to show others the joy of thy service.
May my lips be well-tuned cymbals sounding thy praise,
Let a halo of heavenly-mindedness sparkle around me and a light of kindness sunbeam my path.
Teach me the happy art of attending to things temporal with a mind intent on things eternal.
Send me forth to have compassion on the ignorant and miserable.
Help me to walk as Jesus walked, my only Saviour and perfect model, his mind my inward guest, his meekness my covering garb.
Let my happy place be amongst the poor in spirit, my delight the gentle ranks of the meek.
Let me always esteem others better than myself, and find true humility in heirdom to two worlds.
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Lord, may we each sparkle in joyful service to you today so that we can allure (not harangue) others to you and your steadfast love. Thank you for Jesus and his love for each one.
As always, I welcome hearing your response to some part of this prayer.
