God Wants Us All and He Won't Rest Until He gets Us All

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 Lord, help me to depart from my "toys" permanently, unashamed before You about my having difficulty departing from them.  Be patient with me, O Lord, and enter my heart and mind, to replace the desires I've held onto for so long.  Grant me the closeness and the relationship with You.  I know there are no favorites in Your Household yet let me have an intense perception of Your Spirit so that I may be a blessing to others.  

May i not be so preoccupied with the visible things.  I've have made the world mean too much for me.  Make me more aware of Your presence.  May i behold You in and around me.  My strength and safety lies not in noise but in silence.  Help me to listen to the music of Your Living Bible as I learn how articulate You are.  Let us all know that the words on the pages are for all of us.  Let us feel in our hearts that Your Word is for all of us.

Lord, teach us to listen to You in these troubled times and as my ears are already growing weary from all these noises and sounds, give me the spirit of the boy Samuel when he said to you, "Speak, for Your servants hears."

Speak, for Your servant is listening.  Let me get used to the sound of Your voice.  Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.  Let no one imagine that he will lose anything of human dignity by this voluntary sell-out of his all to his God.  He doesn't degrade himself as a man; rather he finds his right place of high honor as one made in the image of his Creator.

God wants us all and He won't rest until He gets us all.

Without You being glorified in my life, no possession of mine holds any use to me.  I exalt You with my friendship to Immanual.  Thank You for bringing us together this early morning.  You are above all as i stand deserted and alone in the midst of this earth. 

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