I wrote this prayer at 5:00 am 31st December 2017, it was the words God inscribed on my heart for us, for this season. It is written in the steps and pattern of prayer He has thought me over the years. I am calling it ‘Crossing Over’ for want a new title.
Crossing Over 2017
Holy God
Righteous Father
Maker of the Universe
It is to you we come
Lord we don’t know how to pray or what to say
But let your Holy Spirit speak and guide
Lord, we present ourselves to you first
All our sins and weaknesses, the things we do and say which makes you sad
Father we repent of things done in our mind, soul and body
Things we are conscious of and those where we are still blind to – those still hidden in darkness
Lord we look back on the 365 days you have given us
We repent of any wasted time
Any folly
Anything that didn’t give you the glory
As we stand on the precipe of a new year – we don’t want to take any load which is not of you, or from you ,
any pattern or weaknesses which is not befitting of the kingdom,
we want to leave behind
Lord help us go over light, steadfast in our footsteps and with hinds feet
Help us to take only the things you want us to take
Help us to cross over well and reach the other side
Father, Your mercies have been new to us every morning
We continue to trust in your faithfulness
Knowing that the work you have started in us, you are able to complete until the day of Jesus Christ
Our souls cry ‘Maranatha’
Come quickly Lord Jesus
Teach us to number our days
None of us know our times –
The length of our days are in your hands
Help us to be conscious of the season we are in
Of the lateness of this hour
Lord, you have given each and every one of us the capacity and ability to do of your good pleasure
A heart, mind and spirit to seek after you, if indeed, you are our heart’s desire
You have said in your word, that we should have no other gods before you
Fill all our vision
Help us this day (as we shake off the old year- the old wine skin )to name our idols and to lay them down at the foot of the cross
Father, there is none like you
Your love for us is unfathomable
When we were naked
You covered us with your skirt
When we are wounded and weary
You feel it, You care
Help us to say like David,
One thing have I desired of the Lord to seek after him all the days of my life, that I may dwell in his courts forever
Oh how we need you to visit us
Oh how we need your presence in our house
To be tabernacled in you and you
in us – Shekinah King of Glory
Help us to seek after righteousness
To grow up and mature in you
Help us not be a stumbling block in the way of any other
As your word says ‘as far as it remains with us, to be at peace with all men’
Lord, help us to hear when you call
Listen when you answer
To not repeat the same mistakes
Let us not be that rebellious ‘house’
Ever seeking for a sign, a word which has already been written, given, spoken, sent.
Give us wisdom and understanding
To discern the good and proper way.
We pray this prayer not only for ourselves but for our brothers, our sisters
those without a voice – who can’t /don’t know how to, pray
the strong standing in the gap, bearing the infirmity of the weak, as you have taught us
You say if two of us agree anything on earth, it will be done
We are in agreement for seeing your kingdom come in us and on earth as it is in heaven
We are in agreement for signs and wonders, because we believe
We are in agreement for love, truth and mercy to be at the door posts of our hearts, homes and our city
Let it be renowned abroad that we are the people who know God
Let it be renowned abroad that we have your mark – that we are a people, a building, where God’s hand is,and moves
Let the city in which we live be a city, set upon a hill that cannot be hid-
strengthen our stakes, let them go down deep,
enlarge our territories
Restore our land
Remember the nations which are before and amongst us
We are in agreement for you to loose every chain and to set captives free
Let us be a light shining in the dark The example to those who are seeking an answer for Truth
Those looking to us for mercy and for grace
Help us to be good stewards of what you have bestowed upon us, indeed good stewards of your blessed Holy Spirit
Let our comings and our goings be of you
Our sleeping and our waking with you
Help us to delight ourselves in You
Let your joy be our everlasting strength.
We close this year with joy
Knowing that you do all things well
Written by
Prayer Evangelist Linda J