Mark Jones – In His Dust

God, You search me and You know me. You know me better than I know myself. You know my past, my present, and my future. You know when I sit and when I rise. You know my weaknesses and my strengths. You know the areas in which I stumble. You know where I fail. You know my heart, God.

God, I seek You. I want to see Your face, God. I want to know Your ways, God. I want You more than this world. I want Your ways before my own. Your ways are higher. You are greater than me. You’re completely more than me. You’re different from me God.

You, God… didn’t save me to be a servant. You saved me for sonship. I worship You God, for saving me. I praise You for saving me from my sins, and saving me from DEATH, and eternity in hell. I thank you and praise You for the cross. Don’t let me forget. Don’t let me skip over the cross.

God, I praise You for being the victor! I take confidence in the fact that the victory is already WON! I take confidence in the fact that You are living and active God. I take confidence in the fact that You move just as much today as You moved any other time, God. I pray in a confidence that You still answer prayer. That when I pray and cry out to You God – You hear me. You see me God.

God, all I need is You. All I need is YOU, God!

What can wash away my Sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus! What can make me whole again, Nothing but the blood of Jesus!

You amaze me God. Your mercy and grace. Your love and kindness. Your patience, and Your righteous anger. God, you astound me. I can’t get over the fact that You take interest and care for someone as lowly as me. I am the cheapest of all sinners, I am the lowest of the low, God. And You saved me!

I pray God, for people who are hurting God. That they would remember You’re the God of comfort, and the God who created love… and a God who provides shelter from the storm. That thay would know that they can seek You and You will hear them God. That when they cry out – You hear. You answer.

God, forgive my sins. Forgive me when I don’t live the life I’m called to live. Forgive me for not seeking You in all things. Forgive me for not remembering the cross. Forgive me for following the world and living by the world’s standards before Your’s. Forgive me for not living according to Your word.

God, I am nothing; I’m no one; I AM broken and hopeless, and ruined WITHOUT You. Don’t allow me think otherwise. Don’t allow me to believe I know better than my God. Don’t allow me to put my plans before Your’s.

I pray for the addicts and the escapists. I pray that they stop running from their paid and their hurt and their problems. I pray that instead of running they seek You. That they FIND You. I pray for Godly encounters, Father. I pray they the church finds itself overrun with new comers, and the homeless. I pray You’d prepare us for revival, Father. That You’d prepare us to council the broken. I pray that You’d break us, God – in order that we would know You better.

God, don’t let us become comfortable with where we’re at. Don’t let us become lazy followers of You. Don’t let us forget what You’ve done in our lives. Don’t let us forget that Jesus died for our sins. Don’t let us forget that He overcame death and Sin, in order for us to be saved. Don’t let us forget that he hung on a cross for US. Don’t let us forget that he rose again. Don’t let ME forget any of it God.

Father, I couldn’t honestly spend enough time with You in prayer.

I pray in the Name of Jesus, and in the knowledge that he mediates for me, God…

Amen.