HAPPY SABBATH + PRAYER: Face In My Mirror

Father, have Mercy on Me?!

I am Looking in My Mirror -

Who is it that I see?

A Vile Sinner?

A Sinner Saved By Grace?

A Self-Righteous Saint?

Who Am I Truly?

Would You Help Me See Whether

I Am Truly Walking With and In Thee?

Sometimes I'm Humble!

Sometimes I Self-Elevate!

I Often Don't Know My Own Mind -

I Calculate and I Vacillate!

But, Lord, even as I Contemplate

My Great Quandary

As I see My Own Self

Through My Looking Glass Darkly

Please Help Me Put Aside 

Pride in Self

Pride in Possessions

Pride in Skill and 

Pride in Prosperity, and

Please Help Me to Gain 

Lawful Entry Into Your Gates for 

This Sinful Nature's Pressing and Pulling On Me!

In The Name of King Jesus, Please Save Me!

I Love My Savior, Lord!

Please, Please, Clean and Heal! 

Help Me!

AMEN

PRAYER: Protect Me, Father, From Self

Father! Hellllpp!
Self is bothering me, and I don’t like it!
Everywhere I go all I see is Self!
Everything I do all is hear is Self!
And every comfort I seek is always about Self
And I am getting really tired of this!
Why can’t it - just for a change - be about Other
Or even Somebody Else?
Lord, I am willing, but Self is winning
And this is killing me ... slowly.
Grant me Your Grace
That I may replace
The disgrace in my face
With love for the fearing
Light for hearing
Sight for the daring
Comfort for the burden-bearing
Caring for the soul-sick and searching
And friendship for the former foe now friendless.
Help me, Father, to forsake Self and to

Seek an
Elevating
Life of
Faith - not feeling.

  Amen.