Prayers For Advent (Week 4)

Taken from: Advent Devotions to Take You Deeper: A Season of Faith (Laurie Hopkins, 2018, pages 38. 39).

Let us pray together:

Heavenly Father, Almighty God, we come before You once again and praise Your Holy Name.  We thank You for this journey through Christmas as a season of faith.  We thank You for the opportunity to fellowship together through these devotions; the opportunity to seek Your Voice and Your will for our lives and the opportunity to see Christmas as a lifelong event, not just a season dictated by retail and media, that leaves us burned out and deflated on the 26th of December.  We know that You have a much greater plan and purpose for our lives.  We understand that You sent Your Beloved Son to earth in the form of a Child for a much greater purpose than gifts and glitter; that you sent Him that He would live as a man and be sacrificed on the cross, rising again on the third day, to cover our sins and grant us eternal life and an eternal walk with you!  We ask for Your guidance and direction, Father, as we seek to understand faith and how it impacts our lives and our decisions and our walk with You.  Grant us wisdom and understanding.  I ask, Father, that You bless each and every one reading these devotions – their families, friends, homes and lives.  That You would show each and every one of them that You loved them enough to send Your one and only Son to die for their sins; that they just need to believe and confess with their mouth that they are in need of a Savior, that Jesus is that Savior and that they want Him to be Lord of their life.  “’The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart’ [that is, the word of faith that we preach] that if you confess with our mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Romans 10:8-10.  We pray all of these things in the precious Name of Jesus.  Amen and Amen and Amen.