Opening Prayer: O living and eternal God, you are more ready
to give than we to ask. Grant us a new
vision of yourself, that seeing you as you are, we may desire you, and desiring
you, may surrender our lives to you. We
ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ your Son, who lives and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit, One God forever and ever.
Amen. (The Little Book of Hours)
Scripture: Philippians 4:4-9
Journal: What is the relationship between anxiety and prayer
in your life? What does God desire for
it to be? How do we move from one to the
other?
Reflection:
All growth in the spiritual life is connected with
the clearer insight into what Jesus is to us.
The more I realize that Christ must be all to me and in me, that all in
Christ is indeed for me, the more I learn to live the real life of faith,
which, dying to self, lives wholly in Christ.
The Christian life is no longer the vain struggle to live right, but the
resting in Christ and finding strength in Him as our life, to fight the fight
and gain the victory of faith. (With Christ in the School of Prayer by
Andrew Murray)
Prayer
Closing Prayer: Lord, I am yours; I do yield myself up
entirely to you, and I believe that you do take me. I leave myself with you. Work in me all the good pleasure of your
will, and I will only lie still in your hands and trust you. Amen. (The Christian’s Secret of a
Happy Life by Hannah Whitall Smith)
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