Prayer of Surrender

On the first Sunday we launched Recovering Life, we faced the reality that we are not God and that our attempts to control our lives has made them uncontrollable. Our attitudes, addictions, bad habits often trap us from going forward and growing in life. We shared together in a time of surrendering prayer. Kent, penned a Prayer of Surrender, inspired by Paul’s brutally honest confession in Romans 7. Here are the words we prayed aloud together as a faith community:

My Lord and my God, I come to you in my weakness,
knowing that living life my own way leads to destruction.

I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
For what I do is not the good I want to do,
but I keep on doing the very evil I do not want to do.

I ask you now to take my weakness,
pain and brokenness
and replace it with Your
strength, healing and wholeness.

Increase my faith,
and rid me of my pride.

I surrender to Your love.
I surrender to Your grace.
I surrender to Your mercy.
I surrender to Your will.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
Amen.