April Targeted Devotional Prayers

Jesus, overwhelm me with your love and your presence. Let “every part of me is beautiful to You, and there is such beauty in me” move from my spirit to my soul, and flood my whole heart, my whole mind and my whole body.

 Increase my awareness of you, where I know I am your Beloved!  Let me draw so near to you and you to me that there is no separation between us.  I want to delight in our nearness in life union.

I will give you thanks and praise until my faith arises above what I can understand or control. It is surely all about YOU! Amen

Lord, The one thing I desire is to live in constant awareness of your presence.  Let me never be satisfied with anything less than you.  Open up new pathways of discernment and encounters with you in my body, my heart and my mind.  Take me into the realms of your glory. Oh King of Glory, I welcome you! 

As I welcome you, I know you are drawing closer to me and surrounding me with your love.  I lift up praise to your name, with praises that will last throughout eternity. Lord, you are great and worthy of the highest praise.  I am giving you my heart in worship.

Draw near, King of Glory!

Thank you Lord, for loving me so deeply that you would create at great expense, a place of opulence, sumptuousness and rich abundance, where I can rest. It is always available to me and I choose to abide in that place now. 

Your rest is supernatural. Your rest puts to death everything in my life that seeks to rob me of it; things like anxiety, worry, doubt and fear.  As I turn my heart towards you, thank you for restoring, reinvigorating, reviving and refreshing my whole being.

Teach me to look beyond the natural circumstances of life and see into the realm of the spirit. As I do, flood my heart with your peace that surpasses understanding, and let that peace and rest cause me to stand up strong in faith. Even if I don’t understand what’s going on, I trust you.  Amen

In your prayer today, thank Him for this:

John 19:30: It is finished. FOREVER FINISHED. There is nothing that will ever change the finished work of Christ on the cross. There is nothing that can ever happen that will undo the beauty and the love and the goodness that won that day.

In biblical days, when a servant would report to their master that the task was completed, they would say; It is finished. When an artist created a masterpiece, and there was literally nothing else that could add to its beauty, they stood back and said: It is finished. So, when Jesus uttered those words: It is finished, He meant exactly that. There is nothing else that needs to be done. 

Whom were the words aimed towards? Was He saying it to His beloved Father? Was He saying it to us, His inheritance, (the ones He called: the joy set before Him that allowed Him to endure the cross)?  Was He saying it to Satan? It’s done; you are done; it is finished ~ and you are finished! 

Actually, all of the above is true.

 Father, we thank you for your incredible love for us. A love that is impossible to articulate. It is a love that is not explainable; but You never asked us to explain it, You only asked us to believe it, receive it and live in it.

As we meditate on Easter we are overwhelmed by your love. Your love is a love that is absolutely unconditional. There is no hook in your love. You love because it is who you are. There is no performance in your love. There is nothing any of us could do to make you love us more, and there is nothing we could do that would cause you to love us less.

So we come into your presence; in awe.  Jesus, You died to give us life, and life abundantly. We come with hearts full of gratitude, thanksgiving and absolute hunger for more.  We are presenting ourselves, surrendered to you.  We want to be filled up to overflowing with all of your goodness.

Thank You for giving us access to all You are. Amen