Prayer For Spiritual Strength

As modern, independent, type A, professional young woman, I have a hard time asking for help.  I'm used to doing it on my own without any help from friends and family.  I don't need my mommy to cook me dinner or my man to pay my bills.  But what I forget is that I need God.  It's so easy to get lost in our vices whether it's junk food, cigarettes, booze, drugs, sex, etc.  We're self destructive, slaves to our temptations when left to our devices.  We need God, we need the strength that can only be given to us through his love.  When you open your heart to Jesus Christ, His love fills our spirit and leaves little room for our earthly vices.

14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

-Ephesians 3:14-19 (NASB)

I pray that you and I can let go of our independence and open our hearts to Christ.  That we may know the knowledge of Christ's love and we are filled with the Holy Spirit.  By opening our hearts to the Lord, we are open to the seeds of truth that God will implant within us.  As we continue to follow Him, the roots will begin to blossom into a shining light of truth, serving as a messenger of the good news.

Of course this is easier said than done.  It's one thing to talk about letting Christ into our hearts, it's another thing to actually recognize that he is in our hearts.  How do you know if He is there?  How do you know that God is always there, waiting with His love?  I don't know the answers to these questions.  I can't tell you how to know that God is always there, I can't even tell myself that Jesus is in my heart.  But what I do know is that:

"the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge"

-Esphesians 3:19

Surpasses knowledge.  We can not even begin to understand Christ's love except what the Bible tells us that through Christ's love, we find our salvation from an earthly death.  We don't have to have the answers.  We just have to put our faith in His love.  We just need to open ourselves to the possibility that God loves us more than we can ever imagine and His love is so strong that we will live forever with Him in Heaven.