my prayer about my maturity…

listen, it is important for you to understand, for you to see that you cannot get mature on your own just with you own will power.  no you must have HIS power and HE is here wanting to come into your life and start the process of developing you from the inside out.  you see HE is the only one that can change the inside.

           

right there in the quietness of your heart would you say, dear JESUS i want to be the kind of person YOU want me to be.  i want to be positive under pressure.  GOD, will YOU change my attitude.  will YOU change me from an attitude of gripping to the attitude of gratefulness.

           

please forgive me for being insensitive to others, to my wife, to my husband, to my kids, to those at work.  help me to see them as YOU see them.

           

then my mouth, oh GOD my mouth.  please GOD forgive me for being a gossip, i’ve spread rumors, i’ve talk about others in a mean way behind their backs, i’ve shared things that weren’t positive.  please help me to not be so compulsive with my mouth.  LORD, i know YOU said if i can’t control my mouth, my religion is worthless.

           

also GOD, i know i’ve got a temper and i ask YOU to help me with it.  you know i’ve got pride in my life, help me with it.  LORD, you know how easy it is for me to judge other people.  help me to realize that all that’s going to do is cause conflict and stir up strife.

           

then GOD help me grow in patience.   help me develop my prayer life, to talk to YOU more, to show my dependence on YOU by talking to YOU about every area of my life.  make me a patient and prayer person.

           

HEAVENLY FATHER, thank YOU for YOUr word.  thank YOU that it deals not with theory but with areas that i need to work on – my attitudes, my actions, my thoughts, my relationships.  help me to grow up to be more like YOU.  in JESUS name i pray.  amen.

just a thought from the front porch…