Teach Us How To Pray 11: Love & The Condition Of Our Hearts
Teach Us How To Pray 11
1. Prayer Of Thanksgiving:
Let’s spend time acknowledging the Lord’s sovereignty and his gracious kindness in our lives. Let’s praise him for all he has done and will do for us during this prayer session.
Psalm 103:1-5
Bless the Lord, O my soul;
And all that is within me, bless His holy name!
Bless the Lord, O my soul,
And forget not all His benefits:
Who forgives all your iniquities,
Who heals all your diseases,
Who redeems your life from destruction,
Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,
Who satisfies your mouth with good things,
So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
2. The Condition Of Our Hearts
We bring our heart before you father, we expose it to you, we acknowledge the mess inside, we ask you to purge our hearts and expose any wickedness it it.
Jeremiah 17:9-10
The heart is deceitful above all things
and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?I the Lord search the heart
and examine the mind.
Psalm 139:23-24
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
3.Healing In Our Hearts
We ask the Holy Spirit to heal our hearts in accordance with his word. May the blood of Jesus Christ purge us, cleanse us, heal any brokenness and bind up wounds. Take this time to pronounce forgiveness and also forgive yourself.
Psalm 147:3
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
Jeremiah 30:17
But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,’
declares the Lord
Psalm 34:18
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted
and saves those who are crushed in spirit
4. Growing in our love walk
We thank God that we are ever increasing in our love walk, we are getting to know Christ and become more and more like him, daily.
Philippians 1:9-11
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgement; That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God
Affirmations:
Father, I thank you that it is well with my soul!
I declare that my souI is prospering even as I am prospering and walking in health. I walk in, and manifest, the dominion of Christ over my thoughts and emotions today. Thank You for the blood of Jesus, which purges my conscience, my heart, mind and thoughts from dead works to serve the living God. I eject every thought and feeling of bitterness, disappointment, pain, resentment and unforgiveness towards anyone including myself from my heart and soul,my heart is cleansed from negative feelings, my entire system is cleansed from trauma. I cut off and erase any memories that are associated with these thoughts and feelings in the name of Jesus Christ. I declare that I am deeply rooted and securely grounded in the love of God, wholesome communication concerning others comes from my mouth. live in the glorious liberty of my divine life in Christ. I grow daily in grace and in the wisdom of God.
The Word is working mightily in me!
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