Father God,
I know it is not a scheduled day to post a prayer in my Prayer Journal, but my heart is stirring within my soul to write a prayer to You. I pray you will lead this prayer. Guide my words. Pour out my soul. Speak Scriptural truth to me and to those joining me in prayer via this unscheduled prayer.
Father, much has been discussed this past week regarding our Foundation in Christ Jesus. Lord, no other foundation has been laid but that which is Christ. Lord, I stand on that foundation. I thank you for providing something equally sure and fluid. Lord, this foundation in Christ cannot be shaken, broken or harmed in any way. Yet it is fluid in its growth and constant expansion as, one by one, we call upon the Name of Jesus Christ in belief that He is the way, the truth and the life.
Standing on the promise of this foundation, I find my faulty structure. It’s my thoughts of myself. Father, I have a solid structure. I am confident in my building. I am consistent in my work by Your faithful measure of grace. But, Father God, I stunt my build when my thoughts take over. This. This is where I fail as your building, as your fellow worker.
Then, Lord, my Bible falls open to Job 27, and You open my eyes to a truth declared by a member of this Eternal Structure called the House of God. Lord, Job pours out a promise that pricked my heart and caused me to stand. Oh, Lord, how much power is found in the Word of God!
This morning this familiar passage became so new. For that I thank you for being a Living God and for gifting us with Your Living Scripture!
“As long as my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God is in my nostrils, my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit (about me to me). I hold fast my righteousness (my truth in Him) and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days. -Job 27:3-4,6
Father, I pray that you will remind me to control my heart from reproaching myself within my thoughts.
- Lord, bind the falsehoods that I spew toward me.
- Lord, seal my lips from uttering deceit about me to me.
- Lord, strengthen my truth of who I am in You as a solid structure standing on a sure foundation!
Oh, Lord! How good You are, my Father, my God!
Prayer Sister,
If you can relate to the words of this vulnerable prayer, please take it personal. Pray these words from your heart to God’s heart. Write Job’s declarative promise on paper. Commit it to memory. Fight those inner thoughts with the power of Scripture. Stand with me on the sure foundation of Christ Jesus. We are not fighting this battle alone.
XOXO
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