Desk of Dennis PillerFearlessly Courageous2 28 2023Click for Audio Version
Create in me a Clean Heart
Lord, it's a new day and a new week. What is it you would have of me? Lord, I say yes to whatever you call me to. Yes to show forth your love and grace in the darkness all around. Lord help me to see what you see and hear what you hear beneath the layers of concealment, pain, and hidden intentions. Lord that your discerning spirit would rise up and be that light for me this week for your glory and perhaps even for the salvation of a soul or the encouraging word for a sojourner who has lost their way or that someone who is broken physically, emotionally, or spiritually. Help me be bold in my weakness to touch them with your love. Give me grace and courage to speak for you, to let you speak through me to comfort and light the way for a broken sheep who has lost its way.Lord help me to realize you didn’t call me for my strength and power to succeed but you have called me in my brokenness and weakness to embody the power of the cross to stand firm in the face of a mountain of self and opposition to be that treasure in an earthen vessel. For when I am weak then I am strong in your power, in your humility and graciousness not in my strengths. 2 Cor 12:9
Lord help me to make this a different day and a different week. Lord take me out of my comfort zone and use me, really use me, as I bow my head in repentance for not seeking you with all fervor and a heart filled with tears for being Luke warm in my resolve to minister your love in places I deemed inappropriate or didn’t think to impart your love and truthalong my ordinary routines of living.
Open my heart and my mind to your scriptures, create in me a clean heart Oh Lord my God, and create a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence oh lord. I want more of you today. I will not settle today or this week pS 28:7 “God, today I open my heart to you. I want to feel your passion for people. Help me to carry the heart of Christ with me wherever I go. Break my heart for what breaks yours.” so I might see in the spirit. Walk in the Spirit. That I might war in the spirit. That I might embody your love in the cracked clay jars ready to be remade and shaped in your image. Lord, I am ready to open that hidden and closed secret door that has sat in the shadows of my life for too long. Lord, through Christ alone, your strength within me will help me to extract it and lay it at your feet Roman 8:31 “Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” – This my battle cry this week! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_4b_9l3GpECreate in me a clean heart. Keith Green
