(Pilot MC) Prayer: Family

Father God,

You are perfect in all your ways. Your deep love for your children compelled you to give up your son so that we may be redeemed to you again. Oh how you love us! Thank you Lord Jesus that you were humble enough to come for us. In your perfect obedience you display your love for us. Thank you for being the perfect big brother allowing me to be adopted into your family, the Father's family. Thank you that you love me so you are still at work today interceding for me. Thank you Holy Spirit that you came to empower me, I'm not left to my own accord; that you do the work in and through me; that you are interceding for me too at this moment because you love me! Nothing (including all my failures as a parent, my sins and my own condemning thoughts) can separate me now or in eternity from your love. 

Thank you for the BSF leaders who faithfully show up each week to serve and bow our knees to you and the work you are doing. Help us to be faithful, and allow your work to be done through us. May we not find our success in our own selves doing but in the humble faithfulness of resting in you and allowing you to work. Thank you that they have shown me what it looks like to pray, what it looks like to be a friend and what it looks like to depend on the Holy Spirit, that it is your work not mine to take over. Please bless us servants today as we show up to love your people.

I confess I have been struggling to remember the depth of your unconditional love for me Father. That your love solely is because of what you have done, nothing I have, am or will do. The condemnation I pass on to my children is disgusting. Holy Spirit, help me to believe your love for me, to rest in it and to reflect it to these little ones that you have gifted me. Father forgive me for all the wrong I have done.

I also confess the idea of community is exciting as it will draw me closer to you (I hope) but I fear the time commitment, the messiness of living with other people and that I don't have it all together. I will no longer be able to hide. Help me to trust in you that you are at work in all things and begin to let go of trying to control everything.

"Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!"

Amen!