a sabbath prayer
Yeshua said, “Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am selfless and humble in mind: and you will find rest for yourselves.” [Matt 11:29 – The TENT]
Yeshua said, “Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am selfless and humble in mind: and you will find rest for yourselves.” [Matt 11:29 – The TENT]
Sabbath prayer offering -
YHWH, You are the Self-Existing Oneness,
our Father, our Rescuer, our Encourager,
the Creator of all and the source and giver of eternal life.
Father, You gave Your Word and kept it; You give Your Word and guard it,
and all Your promises You will fulfill.
You are the Trustworthy One ransoming from slavery,
even the slavery to self.
You are the Mighty One of Israel.
You gave us Your only fathered Son,
the One appointed before time began,
and fully anointed Him with Your Pure Spirit
to be our Rescuer and Ruler.
You sent Your promised One on Your appointed day
to the people You prepared to receive Him.
You sent Him to destroy the darkness of deception and ignorance
by the pure light of Truth,
the everlasting good news that You rule and restore all who thirst for Your purity.
But we have done wrong; we became wrongdoers.
We are not worthy nor fit to live forever
in the burning presence of Your righteousness.
In order that we might freely receive eternal life,
the scales must balance;
Your perfect justice must be done;
the debt we owe You from our wrong-doing and selfish living
must be paid.
Through Your sacrificial love, You have included us in Your endless Reality.
Your will to buy us back and restore us to Yourself, You fulfilled.
You paid Your own justice,
by sacrificing Your own heart, Your own beloved Son.
Yeshua's faultless life covered eternity's price.
His selfless and willing blood sacrifice made the payment
in our names.
Yeshua, conceived by Pure Spirit in virgin flesh as fully human,
yet the Father's true expression,
the Word of YHWH.
You were, for us, the perfect sacrificial Ram,
and now, for us, You are the eternal High Priest.
We can never thank You enough for allowing
Your life's blood to pour out to pay for our wrongs,
to buy our freedom from the final second death.
You having died, proved by rising again
that for those who sacrifice their own desires,
temporary torture or grief are only a shattered gate
to final unending joy.
Thank You, Yeshua, for sharing with us Your Pure Spirit
that enables us to ask for Your forgiveness.
Yeshua, I trust You as my Rescuer.
Lead me to overcome my self pity and my self will.
O YHWH, through Yeshua, Your identity and reputation be praised and Your Name be called upon now and forever!
As I walk with You, help me resist the deception
of entering into fears and fantasies.
Show me my real need, to seek strength
from Your Spirit-filled Word.
Cleanse my mind in the light from Your Writings of Truth.
Guide me into agreement with your Word
about my wrongs and failures.
Thank You for allowing me to see as You do,
that I might decrease repeating my wrongs.
Shine Your light on my idol of Me,
so following You every moment, I will kill my self will.
Give me Your will's always perfect desire.
Help me allow the loss of my self in Your strength.
Thank You for Your mercy that turns me around from being against Your will.
You paid what perfect justice demands,
life for life, Yours for mine. I belong now to You.
YHWH, thank You for gladly accepting me as Your child
through the death of the Lord of Life.
Make my trust in You complete.
Through Your written and living Word
immerse me in the mind of Yeshua.
Correct, train and teach me.
To know You is to speak with You
and to hear Your soundless voice.
Thank You for Your Pure Word's wisdom.
Help me guard it in my mind.
Pull me to You, in each day's first moments,
to honor and thank You and to receive
what Your love knows I need,
to put You first and finally over each waking moment.
Help me to align my will with Yours until death removes the last of my defilement.
Then in Yeshua's purity I will know Him for as long as we both shall live.
Thank You, Father, for the priceless things Your Son's death has given me -
Your forgiveness and glad acceptance, help and healing,
peace and joy, and all of these
through Your selfless sacrifice.
Within Your will I always have the time to do what You appoint for me.
Through You I always have provision for every need.
Falling behind or getting ahead of You, I struggle.
Draw me to Your side and remind me
not to fear anything but Your justice,
nor to trust in anything other than
Your faithfulness and truth.
Train me not to delay to ask You for help,
so I can rest in Your endless love.
Equip me for battle and put the sword of Your word in my mouth.
Show me when and how to resist the Adversary.
Please help me to recognize his many time traps
and help me to ignore them.
But before treating as an interruption anyone who speaks to me,
show me to consider them in love and truth,
as before a mirror.
How quickly my fallen nature flees from my living sacrifice - my praising You openly
and my quick obedience to You.
So thank You for embracing me in moments of communion and joy at Your beauty,
inspiring me to speak of Your goodness and greatness.
At first I wanted to keep You for myself forever
and I did not know Your heart of boundless love.
But You have made a beautiful and final home
and You desire to fill it with a family of loving children
who have been overwhelmed by Your love and purity,
your goodness and patience and mercy.
Help me to pray for others for healing and also
that You would cover our weaknesses with Your strength.
Show me how to use what You give materially, and
also by Your Spirit, to help others;
not leaving the broken behind;
instead, helping them and
praying them through the dark places.
Thank You for exposing the things of darkness
and revealing the plans of the wrong,
for guiding Your people in battle prayer.
Show us when to resist the Adversary by the authority
You have given us, the authority in Your very Name
to bind or to loose on earth, encouraging us
that it will already have been bound or loosed
in the spiritual realms (Mt16:19;18:18).
Lord, for the purity of Your reputation, Your Name,
bring Your peace to Jerusalem,
and rescue the children of Israel as You have promised in Your Word!
Help me to agree when You convict me of my wrongs
and when I turn back to You, let Your acceptance of me flow out to others.
Encourage me to help others because of, not in spite of, their shortcomings, and
to reject any negative feeling toward them.
Then I will be able to forgive in love,
to speed their wholeness.
Yet help me, Lord, to discern the unbridgable chasm
between my forgiveness of personal offences and
ignoring errors of foundational truth.
Restrain me until I know Your confirmation and way and timing
for correcting basic truth errors in love.
Yeshua, You came to destroy the works of the Adversary.
Yet the Enemy persistently deceives and distracts
because it is effective.
In order that I might become a good watchman
who protects what is planted by YHWH,
train me to expel the vermin invading my mind -
those thoughts from the Accuser that can ruin
Your vineyard.
Thank you for first convicting me, then forgiving me,
and helping me to accept your forgiveness.
Remind me to escape the Enemy's grasp
by renouncing and turning away from my resentments,
forgiving in my own mind every wrong done to me.
Only by doing so can Your children live in peace as Your family,
so that You might use us
co-laboring together with You.
For this purpose You have given us Your Name,
and Your authority to rule, according to Your Ruling over us.