Post by dodi on Aug 26, 2009 0:04:25 GMT -8
What if we used this part of the boards to write out (speak forth) our own "heart" prayer to God? Then others could agree with us and also if they so desired agree for themselves with those parts that "speak" to them? I woke up at 3 am... not unusal when Abba is at work with this thought... so here is mine...
Father God, I bless you for you have told us to bless your Holy Name.
My heart cries out to you, for the things I have done and not done for my body, which I know full well is the temple of the Holy Spirit.
Here I am bringing with me all that is "me", the good, the bad and the ugly, just coming as I am in this moment. Bringing every joy and every sorrow, every success and every failure, every hope and every dream...and I bow at your feet. I bow at the foot of the cross and afresh this night I embrace your blood shed for me as my one and only cover. I renounce all other ways I have chosen as my covering, the ways and areas where I have not walked with you. Especially eating.
God I have used food as comfort, I have chosen rebellion in subtle ways that I dont even understand fully and yet which I know to be true. I have worshiped at the idol altar of food and doing whatever feels good at the moment. I am sorry. I can not do this eating right thing on my own. No program has worked for me. But in you I can do all things. In you I place my hope and my trust. Lord this is a spiritual battle and the weapons I have used have been carnal, so I ask you to help me to remain "in you" or in overt awareness of YOU with me, for you ARE with me.
There is no place I go, no place I have ever gone, and no place I ever will go where you are not present. Lord, even though I do not know all the roots of the eating issue, I do know there are roots and not just for me for all of us. So I take the sword of the spirit and the word of GOD and I sever in the Spiritual rhelm those roots as best I can and I ask you to completely sever them too. I profess that I am willing to line up with you and your word and I trust that if there is any work that needs to be done to kill off the roots completely you will show me. God I have built walls of self protection and they are visible as fat... that is sort of funny but true. I thank you that the walls ARE coming down. You have done so much for me and I know it is your desire to reveal and heal or heal and not reveal LOL whatever is necessary. Together, in you I can do all things even this thing at which I have failed so many times. Lord I see an army of us coming together with you are the head to take back the "land" (eating) that we have surrendered to the enemy one choice ( bite) at a time. I thank you for the vision that you gave Teresa for this group and I choose to surrender to you. If I stumble I will get right back up and look to you... When there are good days along this path, I will look to you. Bad days the same. My heart does cry out to you and my heart and my mind, all that is "me" chooses to know that as I choose one choice at a time to surrender this area to you, that you will be mighty on my behalf. I do love you so much... and I guess this is like every other area of healing and restoration, you will be with me and you will provide grace and mercy in the times of need...well enough for now, I need to go to work in the morning.. Thank you that as I lay down and sleep, you are with me and that I dont have to get any prayer right.. thank you that you know my heart, you know my thoughts, and you are at work on my behalf, not just in this area but every area.... I thank you, I bless you and my heart chooses to praise you at all times...from joan (smile) your beloved daughter who is prcious in your sight, even tho at times I wonder how...
Father God, I bless you for you have told us to bless your Holy Name.
My heart cries out to you, for the things I have done and not done for my body, which I know full well is the temple of the Holy Spirit.
Here I am bringing with me all that is "me", the good, the bad and the ugly, just coming as I am in this moment. Bringing every joy and every sorrow, every success and every failure, every hope and every dream...and I bow at your feet. I bow at the foot of the cross and afresh this night I embrace your blood shed for me as my one and only cover. I renounce all other ways I have chosen as my covering, the ways and areas where I have not walked with you. Especially eating.
God I have used food as comfort, I have chosen rebellion in subtle ways that I dont even understand fully and yet which I know to be true. I have worshiped at the idol altar of food and doing whatever feels good at the moment. I am sorry. I can not do this eating right thing on my own. No program has worked for me. But in you I can do all things. In you I place my hope and my trust. Lord this is a spiritual battle and the weapons I have used have been carnal, so I ask you to help me to remain "in you" or in overt awareness of YOU with me, for you ARE with me.
There is no place I go, no place I have ever gone, and no place I ever will go where you are not present. Lord, even though I do not know all the roots of the eating issue, I do know there are roots and not just for me for all of us. So I take the sword of the spirit and the word of GOD and I sever in the Spiritual rhelm those roots as best I can and I ask you to completely sever them too. I profess that I am willing to line up with you and your word and I trust that if there is any work that needs to be done to kill off the roots completely you will show me. God I have built walls of self protection and they are visible as fat... that is sort of funny but true. I thank you that the walls ARE coming down. You have done so much for me and I know it is your desire to reveal and heal or heal and not reveal LOL whatever is necessary. Together, in you I can do all things even this thing at which I have failed so many times. Lord I see an army of us coming together with you are the head to take back the "land" (eating) that we have surrendered to the enemy one choice ( bite) at a time. I thank you for the vision that you gave Teresa for this group and I choose to surrender to you. If I stumble I will get right back up and look to you... When there are good days along this path, I will look to you. Bad days the same. My heart does cry out to you and my heart and my mind, all that is "me" chooses to know that as I choose one choice at a time to surrender this area to you, that you will be mighty on my behalf. I do love you so much... and I guess this is like every other area of healing and restoration, you will be with me and you will provide grace and mercy in the times of need...well enough for now, I need to go to work in the morning.. Thank you that as I lay down and sleep, you are with me and that I dont have to get any prayer right.. thank you that you know my heart, you know my thoughts, and you are at work on my behalf, not just in this area but every area.... I thank you, I bless you and my heart chooses to praise you at all times...from joan (smile) your beloved daughter who is prcious in your sight, even tho at times I wonder how...