God,
I long to hear your voice. I long to hear what you are speaking to my heart, and to go to all of the places that you are leading me. I long to serve you and to be undistracted and unhindered by the voices of others. I long to quiet my own mind and thoughts so that I may hear your voice that much more clearly.
I long to be unshaken. Unwavered. Undaunted by the fears of the unknown, and by all the little pieces that have overwhelmed me about my future that I am slowly realizing I cannot predict or control.
I long to have courage. To be focused. To both know and believe in the deepest part of my heart that I am following your plan for my life, even when I do not understand the full extent of what that plan looks like.
I long to be unmoved by the voices of others around me. To be so confident in my own ability to hear your voice in my life that I am not deterred or distracted when someone else’s voice may contradict what your Holy Spirit has already confirmed in my heart.
I long to build my life on solid rock, and to not ever let my life be ruled by fear. I long to believe you when you speak a word to me, and to have courage to follow through with whatever it is that you are asking me to do.
Lord, make me courageous. Fearless. Focused. Unashamed. Determined and unwilling to quit on following through with the word you have put in my spirit. Unrelenting in my love for you, and in my life for others. Mold me and shape me into the person you want me to become, so that I may be the person who has the character, the integrity, and the love in my heart to be able to do whatever it is that you have (and still are) calling me to do, Jesus.
Matthew 7:24-25: “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock”, (NRSV).
2 Timothy 1:7: “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind”, (NKJV).
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