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Let Me Live From Here Unashamed ...


Lord,

You are the judge of all that is ... nothing escapes you.

So what you declare to be right is righteous ... and what you declare to be sin, no man can overrule
What you declare true ... stands unshaken for all eternity and what you call good is truly good without right to question. There is no other word that shapes my existence beyond what you speak and no other judge that determines my fate in eternity but you. These things in mind, I pray Lord, make your declarations clear to my understanding - not only in statute, but in completeness of spirit that I may be found pleasing in your sight and a joy to the heart of my Lord

Let me speak with your heart ... guard my tongue to speak only in pure love
Let me think with your heart ... guard my mind to produce only holy thoughts
Let me hear with your ears ... guard my perception to hear with discernment
Let me love with your love ... guard my motives that they may to be true to your spirit
Let me act in your spirit ... guide my ways that I may act in keeping with the heart of my God
Let me live with your perspective ... guide my understanding to live your perception as my reality

Strip from me this world and its values while I yet occupy it that I not become heir to its folly. Let me see with the vision of eternal eyes and live thinking with an eternal mind, because you have made me eternal. Let my ambitions and actions be toward a day far from now, one beyond my current occupation of this place. Let these things be found to exist in me that I may not sin in my pursuit of what you have declared righteous and that my existence brings life to all that I encounter. Let it be so ...

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