For the engaged Christian, our journey with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is a lifelong trek that’s filled with joys, sorrows, highs and lows. We face great challenges and experience fantastic triumphs. This prayer, crafted from Psalms 31, recommits to the lifelong journey of walking with God while also invoking to be more involved in the journey. Pray this prayer with me, and let’s make this lifelong walk with God glorious! 

Prayer

Father, I have chosen the life-path of seeking You. This is a lifelong commitment so deliver me from the troubles I face while on this journey. I have chosen righteousness. Be my refuge. Don’t leave me hanging when I pray. Answer me quickly and decisively. Sustain me on this journey. Promote me so I can have influence for You. I pray the jealous and conspiring will utterly fail in their attempts to sabotage me morally, relationally and professionally. I trust You, but perfect my trust. I pray my faith will be developed and matured at every leg of this journey. Give me a burning hatred for all things wicked. May there be no compromise within me. When I’m rejected because of my faith in You, may it turn out for my good. Give me arenas to thrive; give me open spaces to grow; expand every part of my life without rivalry. May the very atmosphere around me be conducive for growth. Pull me into a vortex of Your goodness that You’ve stored up for me. On this journey develop our relationship. I long to be Your friend. I crave to hear Your intimate thoughts and feelings. Shine Your face on me without a filter. May I be faithful to this journey. At the end of my life, my desire is to have become and done everything You’ve called me to be and do in Jesus name, amen. 

Psalms 31:1-24

In you, Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in your righteousness. Turn your ear to me, come quickly to my rescue; be my rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me. Since you are my rock and my fortress, for the sake of your name lead and guide me. Keep me free from the trap that is set for me, for you are my refuge. Into your hands I commit my spirit; deliver me, Lord, my faithful God. I hate those who cling to worthless idols; as for me, I trust in the Lord. I will be glad and rejoice in your love, for you saw my affliction and knew the anguish of my soul. You have not given me into the hands of the enemy but have set my feet in a spacious place. Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and body with grief. My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because of my affliction, and my bones grow weak. Because of all my enemies, I am the utter contempt of my neighbors and an object of dread to my closest friends—those who see me on the street flee from me. I am forgotten as though I were dead; I have become like broken pottery. For I hear many whispering, “Terror on every side!” They conspire against me and plot to take my life. But I trust in you, Lord; I say, “You are my God.”

My times are in your hands; deliver me from the hands of my enemies, from those who pursue me. Let your face shine on your servant; save me in your unfailing love. Let me not be put to shame, Lord, for I have cried out to you; but let the wicked be put to shame and be silent in the realm of the dead. Let their lying lips be silenced, for with pride and contempt they speak arrogantly against the righteous. How abundant are the good things that you have stored up for those who fear you, that you bestow in the sight of all, on those who take refuge in you. In the shelter of your presence you hide them from all human intrigues; you keep them safe in your dwelling from accusing tongues. Praise be to the Lord, for he showed me the wonders of his love when I was in a city under siege. In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from your sight!” Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help. Love the Lord, all his faithful people! The Lord preserves those who are true to him, but the proud he pays back in full. Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord.

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