“And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. And the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.” (Genesis 25:21 ESV)
“Abba Father, my Daddy God, many times before this day I have prayed asking You to break through barrenness and bring fruitfulness. Today is no different. Man’s schemes and plans cannot yield anything of lasting bounty. Only Your hand of blessing can impart life where none exists.
I am not strong. I am not clever or smart. I am not gifted or charismatic. I confess that my sole quality of recommendation is availability. I offer my life to You again. The people that I shepherd are needy. I do not judge them; we are all broken to some degree or another. Yet, Daddy, we love You (as best we know how) and we want to serve You (as best we are able).
I praise You for Your mighty Spirit that works within us. If we resign our wills and cooperate with Your leading, the impossible can be done. I thank You for Your eternal Word that instructs and encourages and corrects us. All that we need has been fully supplied. Father, break through our partial, or even total barrenness, and produce new, genuine, and miraculous life. I intercede for the church, my friends, my family, and my own life. Please work healing in our spiritual wombs.
May You and You ALONE gain all glory and honor in this hour. May I and those who are with me serve as stagehands and supporting players while You solely stand in the spotlight of our lives and church. Humbly, I ask You to move the mountains of opposition. Flatten the hills erected by our enemy and the heights built up by our own pride and self-reliance.
Undo my ever-unsatisfied need for a sense of personal accomplishment and strip away the remnants of care for what others think of me. Daddy, You must be my aim, my heart, and my desire. Please help me please You. I would labor under no other master.
With all that I am and pray to become, I am Yours. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”
Hi Pastor Tim;
Just what you have wrote has touched my heart. I have been going through so much since last April the 16th 2008. And things didn't go right starting in Jan. the 20th 2009. When the Dr. told me that he was able to reverse my bowel and I would be normal but instead that didn't happen. He wasn't telling me the truth the whole time that I was going to him and then out of the blue he said how will you feel to know that you will have to live with this the rest of your life and with the hernia I got with it. I lost hope and then I became angry with God. and the Dr.
When that happens you open the door for the enemy to get a foot hold and then it is really hard to get back were you are, at least for me. I have cryed a lot. The other day I prayed for God to help me to deal with this also a sick husband and my daughter and grandson that has been living with us. I am going to see another Dr. to see what can be done.
As I read your page it was like I had wrote some of it and I was feeling that way.
I enjoy reading your blogs even though I haven't written any thing. But that touched me. God Bless you and your family and the church.
With Love in Christ
Ginny
Posted by: Ginny | July 15, 2009 at 07:33 PM
Pastor Tim:
Great prayer! I really believe that this is the heart of many Christians and yet we sometimes stumble in the dark just trying to find our way to the light.
If only, if only, if only:
my heart could stay pliable in His hands
and I could stay out of the way of His progress in my life
Chuck Swindoll said it best, "Three steps forward and two steps back."
Doesn't that still put us out in the front however?
Thanks Pastor Tim for sharing your heart. I love your grace notes.
Keep up the good work.
Posted by: NLT | July 15, 2009 at 09:18 PM