Tag: Prayer

Here is a prayer of Charles de Foucauld, to reflect on, to meditate on, to pray, and make it your own this week. See some reflection questions at the bottom of this post.

A Prayer of Charles de Foucauld

Father, I abandon myself into your hands.
Do with me what you will.
Whatever you may do, I thank you.
I am ready for all, I accept all.
Let only your will be done in me
And in all your creatures.
I wish no more than this, O Lord.
Into your hands I commend my spirit.
I offer it to you with all the love of my heart
For I love you, Lord, and so need to give myself,
To surrender myself into your hands, without reserve
And with boundless confidence,
For you are my Father.

— Charles de Foucauld

Reflection:

• Behold — Where are the eyes of your heart drawn into this prayer?
• Believe — How is your faith strengthened in this prayer?
• Belong — Who are you recalling as you pray this prayer?
• Become — What is God inviting you to receive and thereby become as you pray this prayer?

Here is a prayer of John Wesley, to reflect on, to meditate on, to pray, and make it your own this week. See some reflection questions at the bottom of this post.

A Covenant Prayer

I am no longer my own, but yours.
Put me to what you will, place me with whom you will.
Put me to doing, put me to suffering.
Let me be put to work for you or set aside for you,
Praised for you or criticized for you.
Let me be full, let me be empty.
Let me have all things, let me have nothing.
I freely and fully surrender all things to your glory and service.
And now, O wonderful and holy God,
Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer,
you are mine, and I am yours.
So be it.
And the covenant which I have made on earth,
Let it also be made in heaven.  Amen.

— John Wesley

Reflection:

• Behold — Where are the eyes of your heart drawn into this prayer?
  Believe — How is your faith strengthened in this prayer?
  Belong — Who are you recalling as you pray this prayer?
  Become — What is God inviting you to receive and thereby become as you pray this prayer?

In Psalm 78:18, the Hebrew people were described as putting God to the test by selfishly asking for meat while they were in the wilderness. Realizing that God has given us much, pray that our hearts will be protected from making selfish requests of God or speaking evil of His graciousness.

They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved.
Psalm 78:18

The psalmist said that he had sought God with all his heart. Pray that today that all across Orillia, Canada and this world, followers of Jesus will rise up to passionately seek God with everything that is in us.

I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands. Psalm 119:10

King Jehoshaphat was commended by the spiritual leaders of his day when, after setting his heart to seek God, he removed the Asheroth (idols) from the land (2 Chronicles 19:3). Pray that we will eagerly, publicly stand against and remove the wicked influences affecting this world, and affirm when it is being done.

There is, however, some good in you, for you have rid the land of the Asherah poles and have set your heart on seeking God. 2 Chronicles 19:3

God tries our hearts and is delighted when He finds uprightness. Pray that all followers of Jesus will bring delight to God by living honestly and honourably before Him and each other.

I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity. All these things I have given willingly and with honest intent. And now I have seen with joy how willingly your people who are here have given to you. 1 Chronicles 29:17