Prayer to Our Instructor God
Instructor God,
My desire is to trust You more deeply as I allow Your Word to tell me Who You are.
Your love and care for me, rooted in Your boundless compassion, continues to surprise and delight me. In my “harassed and helpless” moments, I know that You see me. That You are with me. That You comfort me with Your peace. I take a moment now to lift up to You the places in my life that need Your healing. [PAUSE and pray for healing in specific terms, knowing that the Lord is the One Who Heals.]
I choose today to live in Jesus’ wide, long, high, and deep love for me. Root me in that love. Establish Your church in that love. Fill me and my fellow congregants to “the measure of all the fullness of God.”
You can do “immeasurably more than all” I could even ask or imagine because of Your power at work in me. I find this truth unfathomable! As You do infinitely more than whatever I can even dream, may that bring You glory.
Remove any “selfish ambition” from my life, replacing it with Your pure, peace-loving, considerate, submissive, merciful, fruitful, impartial, sincere wisdom. Help me be Your peacemaker, sowing shalom wherever I go.
Direct my heart into Your love and Jesus’ perseverance. Help me to be better at waiting on You.
Amen.
Important resources:
· Take this free spiritual gifts assessment or this free Spanish language spiritual gifts assessment.
· Purchase the six-week workbook in English or Spanish:
· God. Gifts. You.: Your Unique Calling and Design
· DIOS. DONES. TÚ.: Tu llamado y diseño único (Spanish Edition)
Downloadable Resources--See Sample List of Interest Areas; Your Spiritual Gifts—A Study Guide; Knowing Your Unique Calling and Purpose Study Guide; Whole-Life Ministry: A Form of Worship, Grace-Giving, and Living into Your Calling.
Shirley Giles Davis, author of the God. Gifts. You. Your Unique Calling and Design workbook, Your Unique Design Class Guide, Your Unique Design Facilitator Guide, DIOS. DONES. TÚ.: Tu llamado y diseño único (Spanish Edition), and Gifts-Calling-Purpose blog, is a consultant, coach, facilitator who has worked with hundreds of faith-based organizations, nonprofit agencies, and executive leaders in a diversity of fields for four decades. She currently serves as Catalyst for Equipping at her church.
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