Gospel-Centered Prayers: July 2006 Archives

Father, we come to you this morning as people who need to be redeemed. We need to be made whole. We confess that we need You to heal us for we cannot heal ourselves.

We confess our wandering hearts. We run after acceptance, prestige, wealth, order, pleasure and novelty in a desperate effort to heal our hearts. None of these can redeem us, none of these can make us whole. Yet we are slow to learn. Forgive us we pray.

We confess our faithless hearts. We have looked for redemption everywhere but in your arms. We haven’t looked there, because we doubt your love for us. Forgive us we pray.

Now, Father, accept our confession and receive us gladly. We ask this not upon our deserving it, or even the honesty of our confession, but for the sake of Jesus. You rejected Him, the innocent, in order to embrace us, the guilty. Amen.