So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.--Ephesians 3:17a
My heart is Yours, Father....I surrender it completely to You. You are building in me a holy habitation. You, the high and lofty One, the One who inhabits eternity whose name is holy, dwell in MY heart! May it be a dwelling place fit for You...a place where you feel at home...a place where You and You alone have pre-eminence. I want to say with Paul:
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.--Galatians 2:20
You, my Jesus, are my sun, my moon and my stars. You are my everything. You make even the night light about me. Take all of me. Help my inner man to submit to the strengthening of Your Spirit by my obedience to Your word. Perfect your love in me. Fill me with all of Your fullness. My desire is to live, move and have my being in your perfect love. Root in my heart. Envelop it completely. I want you to increase and me to decrease. Cast out myl fear and make me brave and strong...able to bear the trials that this life will inevitably bring. Make me like the tree in Psalm 1 that is planted by rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither and whatever he does prospers. You, Father, are my firm foundation. I am trusting You...exercise Your Lordship over every aspect of my life.
If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him, and make Our home with him. --John 14:23
Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like: 48 He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock. --Luke 6
