Give us grateful hearts. Open us to truly accept who You are so that we may be truly grateful. May we accept your goodness, Your mercy, Your love, Your sovereignty, Your standards, Your holiness, Your forgiveness, Your redemption.
I lay down my plans and my dreams. I release them. Do surgery in the hearts of Your men. Remove our plans and our self-made dreams. Remove our affections and replace them with Yours. Remove the idols and the high places that the other gods - the trifles, desires and passions now occupy; that we would have a single purpose and a single vision.
Remove the idols: money, entertainment, distraction, lust, ambition; even the good things that we have idolized: our families, our good deeds, our activities. Anything placed above You in our souls. Put everything in its right place until You alone are high and lifted up, enthroned in each of our hearts. Be enthroned, that everything in us, whether good our bad, is brought to Your feet; released utterly to Your sovereignty: our ugliness, our guilt and shame; our hopes and dreams; our families, our jobs, our identity, our health, our fears, our gifts, our priorities, our worship... until ALL glory is Yours. Be glorified!
Have mercy on us. Give us strength to stand. We know what we have done, we have sold ourselves. May You eclipse our failure. For Your name's sake, oh God, have mercy. May your mercy triumph over judgment.
For Thy sake, O Lord, let Thy face shine on Thy desolate sanctuary. O my God, incline Your ear and hear! Open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city which is called by Thy name; for we are not presenting our supplications before You on account of of any merits of our own, but on account of Thy great compassion. O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and take action! For Thine own sake, O my God, do not delay, because Thy city and Thy people are called by Thy name. (Dan. 9:17b-19)
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