O Father in heaven, we need you this very hour. We are destitutes in our faith without your enabling grace. Our lives reflect so little desire for You! So many things crowd our hearts and we are distracted in the core of our being from the very purpose you created us for. We run from activity to activity, always hurriedly to get the best out of what this life can offer. We fail to realize Father that we do this to the peril of our own soul. What will take for us to make that shift? To quit minding earthly things and setting our gaze upon your Son Jesus who is the author and perfector of our faith. What will take us Father, to have a singleness of purpose and a deep abiding desire to know Christ not just as a one time act, but in an increasing degree of intimacy to the extent that our lives become conformed to His image and His likeness. Draw us nigh O God, let not the pressures of this life slow us down in our white-hot pursuit of the eternal riches in Christ Jesus! May we never lose sight of your infinite goodness and loving kindness Father and so forgetting what lies behind, leaving behind all regrets of time lost, of sin tolerated and of the lukewarm attitude towards the Person of Christ, may we move forward and press on towards perfection. Spirit of the living God, you who breathed into man so that he became a living being, breath upon our very souls, the breath of life that in dying to this world, we may become alive to God! O blessed Spirit, you who hovered over a formless void and created a world with inexplicable beauty, how much more can ye display the worth and beauty of Christ through my life! Blessed be his name. Amen!!
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