A Powerful Prayer

This week I begin a new series entitled @ work.  I’m very excited about the potential of what can happen when we see work, career transitions and the workplace from a Biblical perspective.

On the other hand, communicating at our North Point campuses is always a bit intimidating.  For my money, Andy Stanley is the best communicator in the country.  Not to mention the other strong line-up of communicators we have. They are all a high bar to reach.  Plus, it always seems like I come under some sort of spiritual attack during the times I preach.  Just being honest.

This week, my mentor and friend John Woodall prayed over me in preparation for the series.  It was one of the most powerful moments of prayer I have ever experienced.  It was so powerful I asked John if I could share the prayer with you.  It’s a prayer from Charles de Foucauld, and it’s a keeper.  I’m praying it daily.  I hope you will too.

See you Sunday.

Jeff

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Deliver Me, Jesus from the desire to be praised,

honored, glorified, preferred, consulted, or approved.

Deliver me, Jesus, from the fear of being humiliated,

criticized, forgotten, ridiculed, maltreated, and

from the fear of what others will think.

O Jesus, give me the grace to desire: that others

would be loved and esteemed ahead of me,

that in the eyes of the world they would increase

while I decrease, and praised while I pass by

unnoticed; that others would be preferred in

all situations; that others would become more

than myself — in order that I would be as holy

as You want me to be. — Charles de Foucauld

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