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This prayer is attributed
to Jeannine Maffy, who died as a result of a fall while hiking. Just a few days
before her death, she sent the prayer to her daughter. As you can tell from her
prayer, she had a real heart for God. She was very active in the Church. One of
her activities was to give notes of encouragement to those God laid on her
heart. All that she did was without fanfare, faithfully serving those in the
family of God.
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Lord I'm yours what ever
the cost may be. May your will be done in my life. I realize I am not
here on earth to do my own thing, or to seek my own fulfillment, or my
own glory.
I'm not here to indulge
my desires, to increase my possessions, to impress people, to be
popular, to prove I'm somebody important or to promote myself. I am here
to please you.
I offer myself to you
for you are worthy. All that I am or hope to be, I owe to you. I am
yours by creation and every day, I receive from you, life and breath and
all things. I am yours because you bought me and the price you paid, was
the precious blood of Christ. You alone the triune God are worthy to be
my Lord and Master. I yield to you my gracious and glorious heavenly
father, to the Lord Jesus who loved me and gave himself for me, to the
Holy Spirit and His gracious influence and empowering. All that I am all
that I have I give to you.
I give you any rebellion
in me that resists, doing your will. I give you my pride and self
dependence that tell me, that, I can do your will in my own power if I
try hard enough. I give you my fears that tell me, I will never be able
to do your will in some areas of my life. I consent to let you energize
me, to create within me moment by moment both the desire and the power
to do your will. I give you my body and each of its members. My inner
being my mind, my emotional life, my will, my loved ones, my marriage,
my abilities and gifts, my strengths and weaknesses, my health, my
status, my possessions, my past, my present and future, when and how
I'll go home. I'm here to love you and obey you and to glorify you, Oh
my beloved, may I be a joy to you.
Jeannine Maffy
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