Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing, and perfect will. (Romans 12:2) Lord, sometimes I feel like my emotions need a makeover. Renovate me—transform me so I can be balanced and healthy in my emotions. I ask for your power to change. I don’t want to be the way I used to be. I want to...
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This is my prayer, that I shall never find The secret of thy name; Never attain to bind The zone of thought about thy formless flame. Grant me the grace that I may never hear The one resolving chord Which shall at last make clear The deep harmonic mystery of my Lord. Shield thou my sense, that I may never know All that thy love can be; Let not my probing go To the dread heart of thy divinity. Wrapped in thy quiet, I do but ask to...
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O God, my father, who knows the thoughts and intents of my heart, deliver my life from bondage to evil moods. Not through my own merit, but by your grace, I have put from me those outward acts that the world most quickly condemns. Yet ever with me is the temptation to subtler sins of the spirit – to irritation, to discouragement, to self-righteousness, to self-centeredness, to forgetfulness of you. Purge my soul, O God. When I have...
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