My prayer, Abba Father, is that we may be one, united on earth now as we will be when we are all together around Your throne in heaven. I pray for unity among all those who call upon Your name and share Your Spirit, so the world may know there is a solution to conflict, strife, and division. Through Jesus, my Savior, I pray.
We pray to the Father in the name of His Son, Jesus, through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. When we pray to the Father, our prayers are accepted by Jesus and interpreted to God by the Holy Spirit.
In the same way the Spirit also joins to help in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with unspoken groanings. And He who searches the hearts knows the Spirit’s mind-set, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God… Christ Jesus is the One who died but even more, has been raised; He also is at the right hand of God and intercedes for us. (Romans 8:26-27, 34).
How I rejoice that through Christ Jesus I am all right as a person, now and forever! Totally clean, every stain removed, every guilt atoned for. Totally forgiven, no matter how great or recent a failure I’ve had to confess, or how often I have failed. What amazing grace! What undeserved acceptance and favor!
How wonderful that You ask me to do absolutely nothing to earn Your forgiveness – no striving to measure up, no self-punishment, no prolonged remorse, no self-blame, no deeds of penance. That I don’t have to sink down into regret, or into shame, or into denial, or into excuses for things I do wrong.
I am so thankful that You, dearest Lord God, do not hold a pair of scales and ask me to pile up enough good works to outweigh my sins, my failures, my unworthiness… that it is all by grace through faith in Christ Jesus to save me – my soul and body and spirit from death and hell. Thank You so very much, O God, King of the Cosmos.
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