Prayer For Deliverance.

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Don’t know about you, but I can struggle as the Lord works to make me more like him and less like me. First Christ leads me one way, then life drags me another. So every day becomes a prayer for deliverance from myself.  Perhaps the prayer below will help you as much as it helped me to write it -- and return to it from time to time. 
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Prayer for Deliverance
 
I pray, O Lord, for deliverance
from all the things I yearn for,
from fear and doubt and anger, too.
I pray, O Lord, for deliverance.
 
Show me, Lord, how to become more like you.
Show me the way of the servant,
seeking neither favor nor redress
and asking only for the certainty
and trust of belief.
 
I pray, O Lord, for deliverance
from all my petty concerns
and from the worry and discomfort of uncertainty.
I pray, O Lord, for deliverance,
to be a blessing, first to myself and then to others.
 
Show me, Lord, the way to your cup,
and grant me the Grace to drink of it freely.
Give me the strength, O Lord, to surrender
in my struggle and accept your peace.
 
I pray, O Lord, for deliverance
from all the things I yearn for.
I pray, O Lord, for deliverance
from myself.

© 2009 by Brian E. Faulkner