A Prayer for Faith that Can Withstand Testings, Trials, and Tribulations
Heavenly Father, I praise and thank You that Your Spirit is urging me to take my focus off this earth that is reeling under Your prophesied judgments. I know it is time for me to get all of my hopes, desires, and the source of my peace and joy out of this shaking world, and placed on Yahshua (Jesus), the immovable Rock of my salvation. Father, I want to have faith that is pleasing in Your sight, a faith that will not shake or shatter. My beloved Savior, You said, “the one who endures to the end will be saved.” Oh my God, I am weak, please help me to have faith that is so strong and established that it can withstand the testings, trials, and tribulations that are coming on this earth. Your Word says, “If I don’t stand by faith I won’t stand at all.” I confess to You that my faith has been superficial and shallow, it has not been deeply rooted in wholehearted love and obedience to You and Your Word. Please forgive me for not obeying Your expressed requirement to deny myself, pick up my cross daily, and follow You. I am so sorry that I have been focused on myself, the world, and other people, rather than committed to seeking You with all my heart and following You at any cost. I have been half hearted and double minded. I have not wanted to pay the price to truly surrender my life and entrust it into Your care.
Even though I call You my “Lord and Savior,” I know I have grieved Your Holy Spirit by being half hearted and hypocritical in my spiritual walk. I have not loved, sought, and obeyed You with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength. Yahshua (Jesus), I confess that You have not been my first and foremost love and the utmost focus of my life. I repent for being self centered, self seeking, and people pleasing, with constant desires and preoccupations for the things of this passing world. Holy Spirit, I know You are urging me to present my life to You as a living sacrifice for my Savior’s eternal purposes and the Father’s glory. I desire to live the rest of my life, by the power of Your Spirit, in surrender and wholehearted service to You.
Yahshua (Jesus), thank You for Your sacrificial blood that cleanses my repentant heart. I know my life is not my own, it has been purchased with the price of Your precious blood. It is my prayer that by the power of Your Spirit I can truly say, “I have died and my life is hidden in Messiah.” “I have been crucified to the world and the world to me” and “it is no longer I who live, but Messiah [Christ] lives in me; and the life which I now live … I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” I know You have heard and will answer my heart cry. In the name of Yahshua (Jesus) Amen.
