Almighty and Sovereign LORD,
You can do anything.
Do it in my life –
And those I love.

Let the dew from heaven collapse low to Your people;
Touch us with the knowledge of Your sufficiency
Awaken us with the benefits of Your majesty
Fill us with the miracle of Your glory
Humble us with Your love.

Let Your satisfactory grace be all we want to know.
Let all we want be the agenda of Your perfect will.
Cover our unrighteousness like a blanket;
With Your blood,
Remake us to Your image.
Establish us as Your people,
Following the Shepherd.
Endow us with the blindness of innocence.

Cause us to love,
Cause us to bear much fruit
So as to bestow a fitting reflection of Who You are.
Enable us to endure like a soldier,
Establish us to stand.
Like a child, let us wait in You;
Like a wise man, we know the battle is not ours;
Like a victor, we overcome completely.

We embrace all You are, as all we want to be -
And all we want to be, is emptied into Your love -
Found in Christ alone
Trusting never in ourselves.
We are fully supplied for every good work
And steadfastly we wait for every next drop of food from heaven -
Desperately hungry
Yet completely aware
You will never forsake us.

So we drink in Your Holy Spirit,
Like baby chicks we open our mouths wide before You;
We stay by Your side
We know Who we are;
We are Yours
So we do not faint.

May Your name be known throughout all the earth
And may it start through us.
Let Your light come up upon the horizon
And let Your people stoop low.
Look not to our works
But because we have asked,
Extend Your mercy over us.
Ignore our stubborn ways,
And fill us with Who we need
Announce the coming of the Lord through us.

Give pleasure to Your will!
Express Yourself through our otherwise impotent lives.
Like a bird in flight,
Spread Your wings and set Your children free.
Fill us with the wonder of Who You are
Do in us new works not seen before!

Reveal Yourself through us
Seen and known of all men
Though we are sinful before You,
Though we are broken cisterns,
Though in ourselves we hold no water,
You seal our gaps
And through our brokenness
You reveal beauty not otherwise seen,
Through our problems
You became all we need.

You are a merciful God!
We need Your hand of healing
We desire Your touch of love.
You work in the affairs of men
We call for You to enable us to extend grace
To not count trespasses
For we hate and loath
And are no good on our own.

We are lifted up in pride
And seek only to establish ourselves
We seek to be filled inside
With the satisfaction of ourselves
And to comfort and be filled
With whatever we can find.

We have no capacity for good
Only by Your Spirit we live
Only by Your enablement we can extend grace
Only by Your power we walk
But through You we do all things
You are moved by the prayers of Your people.

Let us not be dense
Though we are ignorant of the spiritual nature of our condition
We are stupid like a stone
We are impulsive like animals
In our own efforts we are wander all the day
Only by Your efforts are we anything at all.

Help us desire Your reputation over our own
Help us want the good of Christ and forsake our way
We repent of our foolishness.
Like a wave of the sea,
Wash us anew
Change us and create us anew -
Filled with power, humility, grace and love
Established in Your word
Strengthened by Your love
Satisfied in You alone
Emptied of ourselves
And filled with the adequacy of You alone.

In that atmosphere of wanting and needing You alone,
Do an astounding work in us, and throughout the world.
Yet we strive not for it
Because we are satisfied in simply You.

We have been trained by the Master
And behold the weather in the sky
So we walk according to Your pattern
And we take hold of all You want to do;
Not grasping those things dear to us
Not groping for what we want
Not anxious for anything
But with humble heart
We open our hands.

We worship You with our lives
We give our hands to the plow
We turn our face like flint
To whatever path You call for us;
Whether it be suffering or lack
All things are in Your hands
We trust in the kind intention of Your will.

We open our empty hands,
Looking to the Shepherd, we allow You to work
We embrace all You want to do.
We invite You to be free
We give You all that we are.

We look to Your face and in the side-view we know,
You are enjoying Yourself!
You play in the day
And like a song that must be sung
You are singing through us!

So we delight with You
We open our mouths
And lift up our voice.
As we watch Your face,
Let our dance steps keep in stride with Yours.

We are Your people!
We have a Shepherd
We are not alone
We are not abandoned, not forsaken.
We know who we are.
We are who You say we are,
And we are satisfied in You.
You are our God
And we love and serve You alone.

Amen!