A Prayer...

"Oh God,
I have tasted your goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more...

Oh God,
I want to want you,
I long ot be filled with longing,
I thirst to be made more thirsty still...

SHOW ME YOUR GLORY, THAT I MAY KNOW YOU INDEED.

Say to my soul, 'Rise up...and come away.'
Then give me grace to rise and follow you up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long...

I come trembling, but I do come.

Enter and dwell in my heart without a rival. Then my heart will have no need of the sun, for YOU will be the light of it.

My God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and compltetly delightful, that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature.

Lord, how excellent are your ways. Show us how to die that we may rise again, to newness of life.

Oh God,
Open my eyes that I may see
Give me acute spiritual perception,
Enable me to taste and know that you are good.

MAKE HEAVEN MORE REAL TO ME

THAN ANY EARTHLY THING HAS EVER BEEN.

The world has been to much with me...
Lord, teach me to listen to you.

So let us begin with God, throwing ourselves at His feet, and meaning everything we say.

Oh God, be exalted above my
Possessions,
friendships,
comforts,
reputation,
likes,
dislikes,
health,
family,
....even my very life.

Let me decrease that you may increase.

Hosanna in the highest!!

Lord,
I trust you completely
I am altogether yours
I exalt you above all.

I ask you to cleanse the intent of my heart,

with the unspeakable gift of your grace,

that I may perfectly love you

and worthily praise you...

Amen."

Excerpts adapted from 'The Pursuit of God' - A.W. Tozer