Episode 65: Psalm 51:10-12
Transcription
Today’s verse is Psalm 51:10-12
Create in me a pure heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not cast me from your presence
or take your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation
and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
Let’s pray together.
LORD, today I believe the words purity, restraint, and surrender come from You. I believe that whatever I lose, You can restore. I need You to do all things. You are the most important. Whatever discipline there is in my life, has to come from You. Because all I have is a gift from You. You creatively made my heart. It is possible to walk away from that, from You, but I can always ask to come back. You are so good to receive me.
Jesus, I ask that today You, in Your awesome powers of creativity, impart to me a new thing—a heart untarnished by my sinful, selfish desires. Let Your resolve, Your patient humility, and Your will be powered to the full within me. Keep me with You always. Please make it so that I despise whatever is not of You, that I want to be with You at all times.
Fill me with the Spirit, overwhelm me in Him. Help shame depart from me; let me revel in my status with You. And when I am tempted and tried, help me remember truth and endure through You. Restore to me the joy of salvation, the gleeful knowledge that I have been saved, I have been snatched from death, from harm, and from my own broken way. I am Yours forever. I never have to live in that sorrow again.
Whatever comes my way, I know You are there to sustain me. I have only to reach out and You are there, closer than my breath. I have an indwelling holiness that is mine because You are mine. Oh, and I belong to You. I belong to no other. Whatever searches for me, desires to have me, to harm me, cannot reach me through the barrier of protection You provide. Thank you, my sweet LORD.
Today, I confess my sins, the things that have kept me from You. I have been selfish, unkind, judgmental, prideful, and dishonoring. Forgive me and put on me the mantle of Your blood, the one that washes away all that would keep me from Your presence. Don’t let me be parted from You for a second. I sinned against You. I am so sorry. Please receive my love, my surrender, my need for repentance. Let Your grace overflow into me so that it is all I know.
Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit, be mine as I am Yours. Restore our union. Line each cracked sin with the gold of your forgiveness and mercy. And help me not to stumble again. Help me cling to You. I will want for nothing else all the days of my life.
I pray this in Jesus’ mighty and unbreakable name. Amen.
