Train us to recognize your voice

Thank you for the warmth of your presence.  You are the great and mighty God and worthy of all praise and honor.  I worship you. 

Help me Lord, to be sensitive to your voice and responsive to your call.  Teach me to be a ready servant. 

Show me how to be effective in prayer.  Teach me how to release my faith when it’s time to speak to the mountain, bind and loose, tear down strongholds, and pray the word.  Teach me to pray the fragrant prayers that please you and accomplish your purpose.

Help me to switch my focus from self-centeredness to Christ-centeredness.  I choose to put away all of my “stuff” and turn my attention to you, Lord.  Swallow up my little world in the vastness of you.  Absorb me into your essence and help me to abide there.  I want to be where you are, to walk where you walk, to see through your eyes and to know your heart. 

How can I serve you in prayer today?  What needs to be spoken?  What do you want to accomplish?  How can I partner in agreement with you?

_That my people would know my voice._

“…and his sheep follow him: for they know his voice.”  John 10:4b

Lord, I pray that your people – your sheep – would know and recognize your voice.  Help us Lord, to silence the confusion and distractions of everyday life so we can tune our ears to hear your voice alone.  Help us to be so familiar with the sound of your voice that we know it intimately.  Help us to identify you with certainty.  Protect us from those who would impersonate or imitate you and lead us away from your path and protection.  Let us know your voice.   

Lord, when your voice thunders from the clouds and you utter your voice before your armies, help us not to quake and be paralyzed with fear – cause us to rise to the battle cry.  Help us not to run and hide from the sound of your voice as Adam did, but rather cause us to run to your embrace like the prodigal son.

“…Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”  John 18:37b

Father, help us to be so submerged in your word that we are actually “of the truth” – that your word is in us to the point of becoming an integral part of our being.  Let the truth within us resonate with the sound of your voice like a tuning fork.  Put us on the same wave length.  Tune us to the right/true frequency.  We long to hear you clearly, Lord.  

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