Restoration. In Your mercy, God, bring restoration to the men of Your city. Remove pride. Raise up a standard and give us hearts sensitive to You. Purge us of everything lukewarm.
End the war of confusion and rebellion - the war with and for the hearts and minds of Your men - and bring us peace. Clear the air. Give us peace to walk out our calling, to face what we must face. Peace to face fear, fire, pain and shame; misunderstanding, being shunned, ridiculed and outcast. Peace to face being hungry and thirsty, being different, being without what we are accustomed to in our material wealth and spiritual depravity. Shift that order that our wealth would be foremost in spirit, regardless of the material. Take the temporary that we may have something lasting. Take our wealth to build something eternal.
Bridle the desires of men. We have become headstrong and careless. Bridle us that we may be true men of God: steady, determined and focused; ordered and majestic. In Your service.
Declaration over the men of this city:
There is hope!
We have a place.
There is an honorable calling awaiting us.
There is hope.
We must relent of our headstrong ways and walking out our desires. We must relent of proceeding on our own course; stop, lay down all that we have and turn to Him. Bring us to repentance.
I am not giving up on You! I will not give up on You.
I trust You, God. I trust You.
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