Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. May it be set apart and kept holy. May our mediator, Jesus of Nazareth, hold His hand over ours, guiding us to touch the hem of His garment, the fringe on His prayer shawl. May He not only unite our prayers to His but also rectify the inadequacies of our words and our thoughts.
As we present our praise and thanks and petitions to You, we ask Him again to sanctify our words so they ascend to You as a pure, unalloyed fragrance.
Lord and Father, we thank You for the discipline of the tests You’ve set us. We thank You for Your love, Your desire for us to mature, Your gift of free will and choice. We admit that sometimes it’s hard to be thankful because we feel inadequate and ashamed when we fail and that shame makes us want to hide from You. But we thank You for pursuing us into our hiding places and making us restless there. We thank You and praise You for being the God of the second chance and the third and fourth and seventy-times-seventh.
We thank You for giving us Your armour to defend us and also the Fruit of the Spirit to overcome the power of the enemy to strike at us. We thank You for love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and self-control. We thank You for the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the belt of truth, the shoes of the preparation of the gospel of peace, the shield of faith, the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God.
We pray that You kiss us with Your armour, and we ask You to kiss our loved ones with it too. We ask for Your blessing and favour as we approach the threshold into our calling. We ask for the guidance of Your Holy Spirit as we face the choices that confront us on the threshold. We ask that You empower us with wisdom to align ourselves with Your heart and discern the choices of greatest faithfulness to You. It’s far easier to choose between right and wrong than it is to choose between two righteous options, one of which is godly and the other merely good. Help us, Lord, to pass the test, not by asking You for the answer—because it’s our test, not Yours—but by learning to sing the song of Your heart in harmony with You.
Father, You sing over us, You joy over us, You raise Your banner of love over us, and You lift us up. We ask Your help to sing with You, to joy with You, to delight in the banner You’ve raised and to lift up Your Name, not only in our own nation but throughout the world. May Your Name be praised forever and ever. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Thank you to Lorna Skinner of www.riversofmusic.co.uk for the background music.
What a wonderful prayer. This is more of a general comment, but I just wanted to express my appreciation for your words, your research, your focus and your willingness to share it with me/us. I am beginning to read the 9th of your books, although not in order. It has been an amazing journey so far. I especially enjoy hearing about the aspects of your name and calling that you share. Although I now go exclusively by Carol, the first 12 or so years of my life I went by Jeanne (pronounced Jeannie). I am still called that by my sisters and cousins. You are so observant that you might see your name embedded in this name. I am in the process of discovery and seeking my destiny even though I am 75 years old.
I also wanted to tell you that when I first started reading your books and watched your videos, I was heavily burdened with feelings of rejections. I believe that when Yeshua was praying in the garden, he would have had his head covered with a prayer shawl. I envisioned myself crawling under that shawl with all my rejection for 6 days and am so happy to report that those feelings have completely disappeared.
Thank you so much. Carol Jean….Jeanne God is indeed Gracious
So excited to hear that six days under the prayer shawl of Jesus made such a difference! The Lord is amazing and gracious!
Hello Anne,
This is also a general comment, as I too would like to express my deep and heartfelt appreciation for your books and the answers I’ve found within them. Even though I have read 8 of your books so far and a couple of those more than once, I feel as if I have miles to go in my search to discover and understand my calling and my name. During my childhood, I was Patty Lynn, then Pat in my teens, and finally in my late 30’s I moved from my birthplace and was able to become Patricia Lynn, my given name. In my spirit, I have always identified the most with the name Patricia, and now believe that is who I really am to my Heavenly Father. Currently, I am reading and studying about Leviathon again. I am now 66 and with your help, I have finally been able to understand some of the reasons for the countless hardships and setbacks I’ve faced since my birth.
Thank you for this lovely place where we can interact with you and continue to learn beyond the books you’ve written so far.
Patricia Lynn
Patricia, if I had to guess where to look for clues about your name, I’d suspect “Cleopatra”, rather than “Patrick”. The books in which I mention Cleopatra are God’s Priority, Name Covenant, very briefly in Dealing with Python. You may have some of those.
Thank you Anne, for pointing me in the right direction! I had not thought to research Cleopatra, only Patrick. And in fact, I was my earthly father’s glory for a short time after my birth, until generational curses and family iniquities/dysfunction caused me to become the family scapegoat when I was just a toddler. I just started reading “Dealing with Azazel: Spirit of Rejection” and I am hoping your book will help me to put more pieces of my life together finally as I continue my search for my calling.
Patricia
Thank you so much my dear mother and friend Anne