By Rhonda Sassano
Hello again! I hope you find strength and hope and healing in the words below, taken from Psalm 51.
”Father, I know that You delight to set Your truth deep in my spirit. You can use every challenging situation to make me aware of my deep need for You… So I invite You: come into the hidden places of my heart and teach me wisdom. Find all the dark corners where I shove the things too painful to be recognized. Show me what needs purifying, every small thing that my conscience refuses to acknowledge. The places You have allowed to be crushed within me are deeply painful, agonizing even.
Let Your love wash over me until my heart is pure, free, and completely convinced of Your unending affection for me. When I am satisfied with Your sweetness, I know my song of joy will return. I will rejoice again when I find Your healing touch, and I determine to receive it from every hand that extends it. I realize You have orchestrated persons and situations in my life to bring me to this place at this time, at this point in my journey. Increase my courage to embrace the healing in every way it comes, even if I don’t understand or it seems like too much discomfort. I want to be, and I will be, made holy and new.
Erase all my guilt by Your saving grace. Keep creating in me a clean heart, a spirit that loves to do Your will. Help me fill my mind with true thoughts about You, and with holy desires, ready and eager to please You.
No matter how many times I fail, You never reject me! You never take back from me Your sacred Spirit! Let my passion for life be restored, tasting joy in every breakthrough You bring to me. Hold me close to Your heart; create a willing spirit in me that obeys whatever You say.
O God, my saving God, deliver me fully from every doubt, and even the sin that seems unforgivable. Then my heart will once again be thrilled to sing the passionate songs of joy and deliverance! Lord God, unlock my heart, unlock my lips, so that I can overcome with my joyous praise!
Strengthen my determination to live out this truth: The source of Your pleasure, sweet Father, is not in my performance or the sacrifices I might offer to You. The fountain of Your pleasure is found in the sacrifice of my shattered heart before You. You will not despise my tenderness or abuse or scorn or mock me, as I bow down humbly at Your feet.
And when I am fully restored, You will rejoice and take delight in the continuous offering of my life as a sacrifice of righteousness, given in love, from my heart to yours.”
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With love and joy,
Rhonda
“God is not looking for those who can but those who will.”
