Heavenly Father, thank you for being a good and loving Father. Thank you for your Son, Jesus, who sacrificed all so that we no longer have to be separated from you. Thank you for sending your Spirit so that your power lives in us and is daily renewing and transforming us.
Lord, we are desperate for you. Our hearts long for your presence, your comfort, your fire, your passion. As you said in Ezekiel 36, give us new hearts and a new spirit. Remove our hearts of stone and replace them with hearts of flesh. Break our hearts in the places that we need to be broken in order to replace those areas of unbelief with belief and trust in you for all things.
Fill our hearts with your Spirit and ignite our passion for your Word and your presence. Let your light in us shine so brightly that everywhere we go, the darkness has to recede because the light of your Spirit in us is too bright for it to remain. Empower us to be unwavering in our belief in the transformative power of the Good News of salvation through your Son. Let our hearts burn with desire to spread this hope to everyone we encounter, being the hands and feet of Jesus to our community. To show them this power by being weird...different...HOLY. Jesus, we ask boldly that you transform us. Renew us in fervor. Lead us.
Thank you for calling me to contend in prayer with You for spiritual renewal in every heart, home, church, and this region. Pour out Your Spirit, Lord Jesus, awakening the lost to faith, readying Your church to join You in Your mission and sending workers into the fields ripe for harvest.
Amen