Jesus, Be Jesus In Me

Lord, I pray that the words of my mouth, and the meditations of my heart always be pleasing in your sight. I’m Your workmanship. Not my own. I was bought with the greatest  price—Your life sacrificed for mine. Your unconditional love and grace. I could never have paid that debt. But Jesus You did. You paid it all. 

I’m so thankful You see my heart. You take the smallest gift that’s sown and one day it reaps a harvest. Sometimes, the wealth of that harvest isn’t seen in this life. But then there are glimpses of fruit that reveal Your investment in me hasn’t been in vain. Jesus, I praise You for Your glimpses of lives changed forever by Your grace. Those once lost and now found. Those found who now see.

Jesus, I continually burn for You to be realized in me. Over forty years ago, You spoke a Word to me. You would use me far beyond what I could think or imagine if I would allow you to work in me—if I would take in your Word until I made it my own. Until I believed without doubt You could use me as a yielded vessel. Thank You, Jesus, for never giving up on me. For teaching me. For guiding me. For believing in me when I had trouble believing.

My heart hurts for those who need you, Jesus—who haven’t realized their potential in You. My heart praises You for those that have found You and now see You. May Your Word come to life in me. May I exercise what You have gifted me. I ask Your divine healing to flow through me into the lives of others. That they would receive wholeness of spirit, soul, and body.

I lean on You, Lord. Use me. Fill me with Your power and grace upon grace. To see beyond any lack and see Your harvest. That where I’m weak, You’re strong. 

“In the day when I cried out, You answered me, and made me bold with strength in my soul” (Psalms 138:3). 

Holy Spirit, pour Your power into me. Make me bold in Your strength. Jesus, be Jesus in me.