Please pray for me, brothers and sisters. I am having a really hard time submitting myself before God as I should, for a bunch of reasons that I know don’t count for anything in the long run but nevertheless seem to be driving my life right now.
Oh Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
Loving God,
We thank you for the many blessings in our lives and today we thank you especially for all of our friends who help us to remain humble and to exalt You only. We lift up our prayers and petitions on behalf of our friend dzheremi who is having a difficult time with trust and obedience to you dear Lord. Our friend desires to see positive change in life and asks for your blessings and mercy, that his/her heart may be conformed to our Lord Jesus, and that your unconditional love may infuse him/her and cause a change in habits and perceived priorities in life. Lord, all of your children are imperfect and sinful, and we all need your grace and strength to persevere and follow the ways you have taught us. We lift up a beautiful prayer for our friend to reflect on in this time of hurt and transition:
THE PRAYER
RADIATING CHRIST
Dear Jesus,
Help me to spread Your fragrance everywhere I go.
Flood my soul with Your spirit and life.
Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly
that all my life may only be a radiance of Yours.
Shine through me and be so in me
that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul.
Let them look up and see no longer me but only Jesus!
Stay with me and then I shall begin to shine as You shine,
so to shine as to be a light to others;
the light, O Jesus, will be all from You;
none of it will be mine:
it will be You shining on others through me.
Let me thus praise You in the way You love best:
by shining on those around me.
Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example,
by the catching force,
the sympathetic influence of what I do,
the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You.
Amen.