Latest / PAMOJA PODCAST | PAMOJA MINISTRY, A LIFE OF CHRIST INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES / THE HOUSE OF PRAYER — PRAYER X: REFINED FOR A PURPOSE A Prayer of Surrender and Refinement

Transcript

THE HOUSE OF PRAYER — PRAYER X: REFINED FOR A PURPOSE A Prayer of Surrender and Refinement · PAMOJA PODCAST | PAMOJA MINISTRY, A LIFE OF CHRIST INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES

• 0:00
  God, today I come before you with a different
• 0:02
  prayer. I have asked you to deliver me. I have
• 0:06
  asked you to change my circumstances. I have
• 0:08
  asked you to remove the opposition, open the
• 0:11
  doors, silence the battle, and bring me out of
• 0:14
  the fire. But today my prayer is deeper. God,
• 0:18
  before you bring me out of the fire, accomplish
• 0:21
  in me everything you intended through it. Do
• 0:23
  not allow me to survive this season and remain
• 0:26
  unchanged. If there is something in me that cannot
• 0:29
  accompany me into my purpose, reveal it. If there
• 0:32
  is pride in me, humble me. If there is anger
• 0:35
  in me, heal me. If there is bitterness hiding
• 0:39
  beneath my pain, remove it. If there is an appetite
• 0:42
  attempting to govern me, teach me self -control.
• 0:46
  If there is a habit weakening my spiritual life,
• 0:50
  give me the strength to break it. If there is
• 0:52
  a relationship influencing me away from your
• 0:55
  purpose, Give me discernment. If there is a seed
• 0:59
  I have been watering that will eventually produce
• 1:01
  destruction, expose it before it becomes a harvest.
• 1:05
  God, refine me. Refine my thoughts. Refine my
• 1:08
  desires. Refine my relationships. Refine my reactions.
• 1:11
  Refine my decisions. Refine my words. Refine
• 1:15
  what I do publicly and refine who I am when nobody
• 1:19
  is watching. Teach me discipline. Teach me to
• 1:21
  tell myself no when saying yes would threaten
• 1:24
  what you have entrusted to me. Teach me to walk
• 1:26
  away from temporary pleasure when it threatens
• 1:29
  permanent purpose. Teach me to control my emotions
• 1:32
  before my emotions control my decisions. Teach
• 1:36
  me when to speak and teach me when to remain
• 1:38
  silent. Teach me to recognize that not everything
• 1:42
  I can do is something I should do. Holy Spirit,
• 1:46
  help me. I cannot produce this life by my own
• 1:49
  strength. Produce your fruit within me. Give
• 1:52
  me love. Give me patience. Give me gentleness.
• 1:56
  Give me faithfulness. And give me self -control.
• 2:00
  Strengthen me where I am weak. Convict me where
• 2:02
  I am compromising. Correct me where I am drifting.
• 2:06
  Wake me where I have become comfortable. And
• 2:09
  give me the courage to obey you when obedience
• 2:11
  requires separation, sacrifice, restraint, or
• 2:15
  change. God, protect the vision you have placed
• 2:18
  within me. But even more, refine the person carrying
• 2:22
  the vision. Do not allow my gift to take me somewhere
• 2:25
  my character cannot sustain me. Do not allow
• 2:28
  greater influence to magnify weaknesses I refuse
• 2:32
  to confront. Do not allow an uncontrolled appetite
• 2:36
  to destroy years of obedience. Do not allow one
• 2:40
  undisciplined moment to damage my family, my
• 2:43
  calling, my testimony, or the people connected
• 2:46
  to my purpose. Prepare me before you promote
• 2:50
  me. Strengthen me before you enlarge me. Develop
• 2:54
  my character before you increase my influence.
• 2:58
  And if this fire is part of that preparation,
• 3:01
  then I surrender to your refining work. I will
• 3:04
  not waste the fire. I will not waste the valley.
• 3:08
  I will not waste the waiting. I will not waste
• 3:11
  the correction. I will not waste what you are
• 3:15
  revealing about me. What needs to leave, let
• 3:18
  it leave. What needs to die, let it die. What
• 3:23
  needs to grow, let it grow. What needs to heal,
• 3:27
  heal it. What needs to change, change it. And
• 3:30
  what needs to remain, strengthen it. Because
• 3:33
  I understand now, maybe your intervention was
• 3:37
  not only about what was happening around me.
• 3:40
  Maybe your intervention was also about me. Maybe
• 3:43
  you were protecting me from becoming someone
• 3:45
  who could destroy what you were preparing to
• 3:47
  entrust to me. Maybe the closed door was protection.
• 3:51
  Maybe the delay was preparation. Maybe the exposure
• 3:54
  was mercy. Maybe the correction was love. Maybe
• 3:57
  the fire was refinement. So today, I declare,
• 4:01
  I will come out different. I will come out wiser.
• 4:05
  I will come out more disciplined. I will come
• 4:07
  out more discerning. I will come out with stronger
• 4:09
  boundaries. I will come out with greater self
• 4:11
  -control. I will come out more dependent upon
• 4:14
  the Holy Spirit. I will come out with cleaner
• 4:16
  motives. deeper obedience, and stronger character.
• 4:19
  I will not simply testify, God brought me out
• 4:22
  of the fire. I will testify, look at what God
• 4:25
  brought out of me through the fire. The fire
• 4:27
  will not cancel my purpose. The valley will not
• 4:30
  destroy the vision. The process will not be wasted.
• 4:33
  God is working. God is shaping me. God is correcting
• 4:36
  me. God is protecting me. God is preparing me.
• 4:40
  I am being refined, not for destruction, not
• 4:43
  for rejection, not without purpose. I am being
• 4:46
  refined for a purpose. And when the time comes
• 4:50
  for me to carry what you have prepared for me,
• 4:52
  may my character be ready for what my prayers
• 4:55
  have been asking you to release. In the name
• 4:58
  of Jesus Christ, amen.