Greetings Prayer Warriors,
Look at a time in your life where sin was greatly present. Chances are you didn’t recognize the gravity of your sin, and justified your actions/behaviors by telling yourself that you were a good person. Of course, you are “good” as everything God creates is good, but that doesn’t mean behaviors chosen are good. Unfortunately, sin obscures one’s vision and makes it harder to recognize evil.
Darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance, because of their hardness of heart,they have become callous and have handed themselves over to licentiousness for the practice of every kind of impurity to excess. Ephesians 4:17-18
The great news is that the Lord never stops encouraging the sinner to come to Him. He beckons, offering to fill our emptiness with his peace. He promises to penetrate our aching hearts and fill it with his Love. He enters in, regardless of the state of one’s “house” even if he only hears the weakest “yes” to his knock. He will help you “clean house”, showing you the path to holiness and providing companions for your journey. No one is outside of his reach, for He longs for a relationship with all of His children, so much so that He offered His life for each and every one of us.
For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. Matthew 7:8
You are not alone if you worry about the salvation of your family, loved ones, or yourself. Together we pray:
Lord, you know us through and through. You know each and every soul we worry about. We ask for an outpouring of grace for those we love who remain far away from you. We also ask for those who may think they are close to you, but in action greatly offend you. Loving God, with admitted difficulty, we ask your grace on those who are hardest to pray for; those who upset us, annoy us, despise us, or hurt us verbally, emotionally, or physically. Humbly, we ask for ourselves too. Heavenly Father, in your compassion, remove our blinders enabling true conversion. Help all of us to utter a “yes” to your open invitation to follow you. In your mercy, bring healing to our woundedness, replace our anxiety with your peace, transform our hearts with your love, and make us your ambassadors in this world, which so greatly needs you. In doing so, we pray that with your abundant grace, we may one day all live as one for the glory of your name. Amen.
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have become near by the blood of Christ. Ephesians 2:13
Be joyful! God is good, all the time!
Peace, Joy, and Love,
Janet
Encourage someone to answer the knock. Pass it on!
