Lord, thanks for all of the individuals who have proclaimed your identify all through the previous two thousand years. Many have given their lives in order that in the present day I can encounter you.
I really feel completely happy and fulfilled by my religion, understanding that you’re the Messiah, the Son of God, the one awaited by way of the ages. You’re the starting and the top. You’re the Lord of Life.
Assist me make our encounters more and more frequent and profound. I need to know you, and by understanding you, I need to see myself by way of the lens of religion, to know myself as I exist in relation to you, Lord.
Lord, many individuals round me have by no means encountered you in a profound means. Assist me deliver them into an encounter with you. Lord, I’m additionally afraid of being rejected. Assist me overcome the obstacles that forestall me from talking overtly about my religion. Give me the power to talk up about you in order that others might know you and the enjoyment you deliver to my life.
Lord, open my coronary heart to a deeper encounter with you. Assist me reply to your name to deliver the religion to others, including extra hyperlinks to the chain of religion.
Amen.
—Excerpted from Lord, You Known as Me by Ricardo Grzona
