Dear Jesus,
Help me keep my eyes on you. Help me have the willingness to give up everything for the opportunity to know you better and please you. Help me only have concern for things that bring glory to you. Help me lose focus of my problems, my stress, my anxiety, my needs, my wants, and my desires. Make my only desire you and helping others discover you. Even when I’m absorbed in myself, help me to remember I want to be absorbed in you. Help me lose the need for validation, praise, compliments, and approval. Help me realize that I have never done anything, accomplished anything, or been worthy of anything. You’ve accomplished things through me and blessed me abundantly, but none of it was deserved or my doing. Suffocate my pride! I want to know what it is to fall completely in love with you. I want to know what it is to feel nothing but love for you and every one of your people, no matter how hard some of them may be to love. Bring change. Make me new. And when I’m not willing to make you the focus, I beg that you give me willingness. Help me not to care what people think of me or say about me, but only what you’ll have to say to me when I’m in your presence.
I pray this for myself, my team, my family, my friends, and especially those who don’t know what it is to have a real intimate relationship with you… It hurts my heart that I went so long being half-hearted and mediocre. Help me be on fire for you.
Yours forever,
Mal
