“‘But you, mountains of Israel, will produce branches and fruit for my people Israel, for they will soon come home. – Ezekiel 36:8
Our Father, in heaven
I thank You for being so high and so holy. I thank You for being our hope in a desolate land. You are a merciful Father, truly loving us beyond our faults. Thank You for dealing with us, in our waywardness, with much love, mercy and grace. Lord, we surely don’t deserve anything good, but because You love us so much, You continue to bless us anyway. Thank You!
You chasten those You love because You love us enough not to leave us in our sin; in our mess; in darkness. Thank You for complicating our lives when we stand a sinful distance from You. Thank you for the discomforts of discipline that usher us back to You in repentance.
Lord, as you restore us back to You, I pray that the mountains of life we face produce branches and fruit for us. You tell us in Your Word, that all things will work out for our good. So I pray that the mountains that we once faced that challenged and chastised us, now spring forth peaceful blessings in our lives. Blessing that will constantly remind us of Your goodness and grace. Let the mountains produce the fruit of obedience; the fruit of Holiness; the fruit of faithfulness; the fruit discipline in us. Let the mountains produce in our lives all things that will bring You the highest glory and help us grow in Your grace.
Help us learn from the error of our ways. Help us walk in humility that we may see the “us” You see in us. Lord, it’s so easy to be blinded by pride. Pride has blinded many of us from seeing and hearing what You want us to hear; what we need to hear. Lord, open our ears, that we may hear. Open our eyes, that we may see.
Create in us a clean heart that we may worship You. Give us an appetite for Holiness. Transform our minds that we may know Your will for our lives. Work in us to will and to do what pleases You. We need You to guide us and to tell us what to do because we can’t direct our own lives. We are sheep in need of a Shepard. Help us not lean on to our own understanding.
Lord, God, You are our only Source! You are our coming and our going, our beginning and our end. Help us honor You with the lives You’ve given us every day we live, in word, thought and deed. Help us never to become so cavalier or too comfortable with You or Your blessings that we start to think and act like You have to do what You do for us. Help us always have a heart of thanksgiving toward You. You are the Holy God of heaven and no other is above You! We bless Your name God!
Amen
*Tressa Jo
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