When I am overwhelmed,
You alone know the way I should turn.
-- Psalm 142:3a (NLT)
My personal edit of a powerful prayer adapted from John and Charles Wesley's Covenant Service:
Lord Jesus, here we are, lost creatures apart from You, and enemies to God, under His wrath and curse. Lord, undertake for us, reconcile us to God, and save our souls. You have promised not to refuse us, for we have nowhere else to go. If we had come in our own righteousness, you would with good reason have sent us away; but since we come at the command of the Father, and because of Your great love, we know You will not reject us. We come, Lord. We believe, Lord. We throw ourselves upon Your grace and mercy. We cast ourselves upon Your blood. Do not refuse us. We have nowhere else to go. We need nowhere else to go. Here in Your presence is where we belong. Here in Your presence is where we will remain. On You we will trust, and rest. On You we lay our hope for pardon, for purity, for life, and for salvation. If we perish, we perish on Your shoulders. If we sink, we sink in Your ship. If we die, we die on Your doorstep. Do not ask us to leave, for we will not leave. We will abandon ourselves to You, not from You. You alone are our Life, our Lord, our Everything.
God, I (We) Need You!
Grateful
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We need to anchor our minds and hearts on the Lord Himself. We need to trust that our Lord keeps His promises. We need to trust that He loves us personally and passionately. We need to trust that He'll save us somehow, even if there's a nasty storm raging outside. We need to trust that it's safer to stay anchored to Him than to drift off and flow with the tide.
Anchored in JESUS!!!
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