Guard us from the attacks of the evil one.
Guard us from our own bent toward sin.
Guard us from the desire to love lesser things.
Give us faith to believe that you are always good.
Give us faith to believe that your power is made perfect in our weakness.
Give us faith to believe that you are enough to satisfy the longings of our hearts.
Give us faith to believe that your love is better than life.
Give us faith to believe that dying to ourselves is the way to truly live.
Show us how to embrace a life of faith in Christ as an abiding life. How feasting on your words empowers and strengthens and grants the joy needed to keep pressing on.
Show us your power, your grace, and your holiness, that we might worship you in humility and awe.
Show us our desperate need for you that we might walk in complete dependency, full assurance, and utter confidence that Christ in us is the hope of glory.
Show us that you are working in us to bear fruit and to bring you glory.
Grant us a yielded faith to release our desire for control.
Grant us a joyful faith to receive everything that comes from your hand.
Grant us a focused faith to fix our eyes completely on you.
Grant us a persevering faith to stand firm to the end.
This article originally appeared at LaurenWasher.com.
