A Prayer of Renewal of Mind/ Refuel of Faith

Happy New Week to you...Off the top, a prayer request once again for my in hospital struggling with illness. Please pray for the medical team and a correct diagnosis and treatment!Please pray for Karen and her family's strength and encouragement! Please also pray for wisdom to know how to bring comfortto sorrowing neighbors;took the life of a wife and mother in our community!Please pray for their comfort as well 💔that they may knowThe Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. Ps.34:18 Today's prayer-poem is shared, ultimatelyas a reminder and encouragement to fight the good fight, to finish the race,  to keep the faith. to prize the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me (and you) on that day—and not only to me, (and you)but also to all who have longed for his appearing.() A few favorite songs to begin a new week on! Lord, you are altogether wonderful and worthy ofDesire’s dearest, deepest plea of devotion and loveThough the spirit is willing, Lord, you know the flesh is weakAnd prone to pride, untoward and too pitiful to speak But You are rich in mercy, Lord, a patient Father-FriendYou forgive us when we are truly sorry and repentThen make my life an open book with nothing left to hideStrip me of looking back, like Lot’s wife, and rid me of pride Unfold the secret/stubborn strongholds of my heart, Lord, lay them bareLike sacrifices on an altar of penitent prayerHelp me to love my neighbor as myself, with no holds barredAnd be a faithful laborer even when toil/love is hard When popular opinion and wild applause sways the crowdAnd religion becomes defiled, disobedient, proudRemind me of the consequences still waiting to beOf love’s final recompense and its grave longevity Lord, you are altogether wonderful and worthy ofLove’s unreserved commitment to go over and aboveRequired regulations as an antidote for guiltRather than emulations of Your lifeblood freely spilt Lord, there is much to do; help me with true humilityTo give my life to You as once You gave Your life for meTo count each earthly loss as gain in an eternal crownAnd to take up the cross of faith until You lay it down Your Word, a gushing fountain that will quench Want, through and throughYour faithful goodness and mercy, always more than enough To satisfy us in the morning with unfailing love Lord, let us covet shamelessly the prayers of fellow-saintsOf fellow-warriors, till we transcend creature-complaintsTill Sight tenderly traces enduring faith's glory, whenWe, who with unveiled faces are transformed at last, amen © Janet Martin I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live;yet not I, but Christ liveth in me:and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God,who loved me, and gave himself for me.