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*Let It Be So!*
 
Father, at times the way of Christ is complex to our “sin–stained” and finite minds.
Forgive us for the times we have justified our vanity in the name of a good reputation.
O, Lord, grant us, in this brief life, the wisdom and courage to please others, or not to please others, for the sake of Christ alone, and not our own praise.
In Jesus’ name, let it be so.
Father in heaven, have mercy on the misery of this world.
Forgive us for our part in causing the pain of others.
Waken us as never before to the preciousness of your mercy bought by the blood of Christ.
Fix our hopes so fully on the joy of heaven, that we become freest of all people on earth.
May our everlasting memories of your grace make us glad of all you changed and all you forgave.
In Jesus’ name, let it be so.
Gracious Father of light, give us eyes to see Your worth.
Heal our blindness.
Save us from the deadly disease of seeing the world as worth more than its Maker.
Restore the capacity of our hearts to cherish infinite beauty and savor infinite sweetness.
Deliver us from the deadening effects of thinking this short life is the main thing.
In Jesus’ name, let it be so.
Omnipotent, all-governing Father, not a bird falls to the ground apart from You, and not a hair of our heads turns gray apart from You.  Grant that we may know these great truths about You, and that we may speak them with winsome joy.
Forgive us for the arrogance of denying them, and for the pride of vaunted self-sufficiency.
Make us like children in our daily reliance on You, we pray.
In Jesus’ name, let it be so.
Father, deliver us from the self-deception that makes us believe anxiety is mere precaution, and that unfaithful precaution is anything other than cloaked anxiety.
O, how devious is the self-protecting soul!  Have mercy on us, and make us bold.
Free us from fear and from prudential avoidances of love.
Make us more eager for the joy of giving than for the security of keeping.
In Jesus’ name, let it be so.
Father, I love Your patience towards me.
I love it when You describe Yourself as slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Oh, to be more like You!  Have mercy on my easily angered heart!
Forgive my many peeves and murmurings.
Grant that I would be saturated with grace, and let me show it to others, as I desperately need it for myself.
Because of Jesus, let it be so.
Lord, I pray that you would fill us with hope and joy and expectation that You have the power to put Your hand on us, and grant us the will to do what You command.
You have made it plain:
We are responsible to do what you tell us to do.
But we know that in ourselves we do not have the will to do it.
And so we cry with Augustine, “Lord, command what You will, and give what You command.”
Leave us not to ourselves.
Have mercy.
In Jesus’ name, let it be so.
Gracious Father, grant me a lowly spirit of gratitude.
Make me feel the preciousness of past grace.
Give me an honest memory of mercy.
Forgive me for the pride of unremembered gifts of callous thanklessness.
Waken faith in my wavering soul and give me strong confidence in   your solid promises.
Where past and future meet, make me humble and bold.
In Jesus’ name, let it be so.
Dear Father, I confess with shame that I am wired to love the praise of man.
I know this is sin, and deeply offensive to Your infinite worth and beauty.
Forgive me, I pray, and make the truth of Your election and Your faith-awakening gift kill all vanity in me.
Set me, O Lord, not to brooding silence, but to boasting in Your glorious name.
Through Christ I pray, let it be so.
O Lord, forbid that I would be so foolish as to be a lover of wages more than a lover of undeserved rewards.
Make me feel the sweetness of being shown mercy.
Work childlikeness deeply into my soul, and make me find my joy and my rest in Your free gift of grace.
In Jesus’ name, let it be so.
Yes, Lord, yes!
This is our heart’s desire.
Forgive us for adrenaline spurts of righteousness.
Forgive us for little sprints of holiness.
Forgive us for short flashes of noble-minded sacrifice.
Build into the fiber of our faith a rugged, resilient, never-say-die perseverance in the cause of truth and love!  Make us coronary Christians!
In Jesus’ name, let it be so.
Dear God and Creator and Father, I praise You for Your infinitely wise imagination!
I bow with wonder at Your power to put in place the universe so full of marvels for our joy.
I pray for the grace of imagination, lest I fail to render Your glory for what it really is, most beautiful of all beauties.
Through Christ, I pray, let it be so.
Thank You, Lord, for the lives of flawed and faith-filled saints!
Thank You for grace, amazing grace that saves and uses sinners!
Lord, don’t let us limit Your power by what we see in the mirror.
Help us to trust You.
Help us, as William Carey said, to expect great things from God and attempt great things for God.
We are not great.
But You are great.
Your power is made perfect in our weakness.
We surrender all worldly claims on our lives.
Come.
Make us useful for the glory of Christ.
In Jesus’ name, let it be so.
O Lord, Your ways are not our ways, and Your thoughts are not our thoughts.
Yours are unsearchable and often baffling to our finite minds.
You have chosen to give Satan freedom to do great damage, when it would be no injustice to him to destroy him now.
We bow before Your wisdom.
We embrace with Jesus the cross that saves our souls and sends us into battle with faith in the superior beauty and worth of Christ.
Go with us.
Help us.
In His great name, let it be so.
O God, You are all wise and sovereign.
Therefore we thank You for keeping in Your hands, not ours, the final determination of which paths are influential for Christ in our lives.
We confess our sin and our fallibility.
We do not want to run the world.
We want You to run it.
We rejoice that our best efforts may yield modest fruit.
And our most foolish choices may be made the means of great fruit.
In Jesus’ name, let it be so.
O Lord of hope, give us the eyes of John Newton and George Herbert.
Give us eyes to see the utter unlikeliness of being loved by Christ.
Take away the feeling that we deserve happiness.
Cause us to be amazed at the wonder of grace.
May grumbling and murmuring depart from our lips, O Lord, and make us tender toward sinners.
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