so God has placed this on my heart to share with all of you. In the past few months, really since last summer, I have learned so much about the power of the Holy Spirit and the authority we have in Christ. While I claim to be no expert and realize that I have much to learn in the areas of obedience and faith, I wanted to pass along this prayer that is found in the back of the book Captivating by Staci Eldredge. There is so much truth in this prayer that we are often kept blinded to, especially in the Western Church. If you are experiencing difficulty in your life or if you simply want to step into a deeper understanding of the Lord, I encourage you to pray this prayer aloud and allow God to minister to your heart. While it is catered to women, the truths presented in this prayer apply to all. Yes, it is long, but it is so incredibly worth it (the book is also amazing if you haven't had the chance to read it :) ).
A daily prayer for freedom:
My dear Lord Jesus, I come to you now to be restored in you–to renew my place in you, my allegiance to you , and to receive from you all the grace and merch I so desperately need this day. I honor you as my sovereign Lord,, and I surrender every aspect of my life totally and completely to you. I give you my body as a living sacrifice; I give you my heart, soul, mind and strength; and I give you my spirit as well. I cover myself with your blood–my spirit, my soul, and my body. And I ask your Holy Spirit to restore my union with you, seal me in you, and guide me in this time of prayer.
Dear God, holy and victorious Trinity, you alone are worthy of all my worship, my hearts’ devotion, all my praise and all my trust and all the glory of my life. I worship you, bow to you, and give myself over to you in my hearts’ search for life. You alone are Life, and you have become my life. I renounce all other gods, all idols, and I give you the place in my heart and in my life that you truly deserve. I confess here and now that it is all about you, God, and not about me. You are the Hero of this story and I belong to you. Forgive me for my every sin. Search me and know me and reveal to me any aspect of my life that is not pleasing to you, expose any agreements I have made with my Enemy, and grant me the grace of a deep and true repentance.
Heavenly Father, thank you for loving me and choosing me before you made the world. You are my true Father–my Creator, my Redeemer, my Sustainer, and the true end of all things, including my life. I love you; I trust you; I worship you. Thank you for proving your love for me by sending your only Son, Jesus, to be my sacrifice and my new life. I receive HIM and all HIS life and all HIS word, which you ordained for me. Thank you for including me in Christ, for forgiving me my sins, for granting me HIS righteousness, for making me complete in HIM. Thank you for making me alive with Christ, raising me with HIM, seating me with HIM at your right hand, granting me HIS authority and anointing me with your Holy Spirit. I receive it all with thanks and give it total claim to my life.
Jesus, thank you for coming for me, for ransoming me with your own life. I honor you as my Lord; I love you, worship you, trust you. I sincerely receive you as my redemption ; and I receive all the work and triumph of your crucifixion, whereby I am cleansed from all my sin through your shed blood, my old nature is removed, my heart is circumcised unto God , and every claim being made against me is disarmed. I take my place in your cross and death, whereby I have died with you to sin and to my flesh, to the world, and to the Evil One. I am crucified with Christ. I now take up my cross and crucify my flesh with all its pride, unbelief and idolatry. I put off the old man. I now bring the cross of Christ between me and all people, all spirits, all things. Holy Spirit, apply to me the fullness of the work of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ for me. I receive it with thanks and give it total claim to my life.
Jesus, I also sincerely receive you as my new life, my holiness and sanctification. And I receive all the work and triumph of your resurrection. Whereby, I have been raised with you to a new life, to walk in newness of life, dead to sin and alive to God. I am crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me. I now take my place in your resurrection , whereby I have been made alive with you. I reign in life through you. I put on the new person in all holiness and humility, in all rightousness and purity and truth. Christ is now my life, the one who strengthens me. Holy Spirit, apply to me the fullness of the resurrection of Jesus Christ for me. I receive it with thanks and give it total claim to my life.
Jesus, I also sincerely receive you as my authority and rule, my everlasting victory over satan and his kingdom, and I receive all the work and triumph of your ascension, whereby satan has been judged and cast down, his rulers and authorities disarmed, all authority in heaven and on earth given to you, Jesus, and I have been given fullness in you who is the Head over all. I take my place in your ascension, whereby I have been raised with you as your own forever, to the right hand of the Father and established with you as ambassador/bride of Christ and to move in your authority and your victory.
I welcome your authority and your kingdom rule over my life, my family, my household and my domain. And now I bring the fullness of your work–your cross, resurrection, and ascension--- against satan, against his kingdom, against all his emissaries and all their work warring against me and my domain. Greater is he who is in me than he who is in the world. Christ has given me authority to overcome all the power of the Evil One, and I claim that authority now over and against every enemy, and I banish them in the name of Jesus Christ. Holy Spirit, apply tome the fullness of the work of the ascension of Jesus Christ for me. I receive it with thanks and give it total claim to my life.
Holy Spirit, I sincerely receive you as my Counselor, m Comforter, my Strength and my Guide. Thank you for sealing me in Christ Jesus. I honor you as my Lord, and I ask you to lead me inot all truth, to anoint me fo all of my life and walk and acalling and to lead me deeper into Jesus today. I fully open my life to you in every dimension and aspect ‒ my body, my soul, and my spirit–choosing to be filled with you , to walk in ste with you in all things. Appl to me, blessed Holy Spirit, all the work and all the gifts in Pentecost. Fill me afresh, blessed Holy Spirit. I receive you with thanks and give you total claim to my life.
Heavenly Father, thank you for granting to me every spiritiual blessing in the heavenllies in Christ Jesus. I receive those blessings into my life today, and I ask the Holy Spirit to bring all those blessings into my life this day. Thank you for the blood of Jesus. Wash me once more from every sin and stain and evil device. I put on your whole armor–the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shows of readiness of the gospel of peace, the helmet of salvation. I take up the shield of faith and the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God and I wield these weapons against the Evil One in the power of God. I choose to pray at all times in the Spirit, to be strong in you, Lord, and in your might.
Father thank you for your angels. I summon them in the authority of Jesus Christ and release them to war for me and my household. May that guard me at all times this day. Thank you for those who pray for me; I confess I need their prayers. And I ask you to send forth your Spirit to rouse them, unite them, raising up the full canopy of prayer and intercession for me. I call forth the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ this day throughout my home , my family, my life and my domain. I pray all of this in the name of Jesus Christ, with all glory and honor and thanks to HIM.
1 Timothy 1:3-7
"I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day, greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy, when I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also. Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind."
T-minus 7 days to Africa. Mega Kids Camp this week, then packing, donation collecting, and I'm off. Stay blessed everyone :)
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