Dear God, love me even after I falter, and let Your love reach me through every mercy I overlook. Teach me to love you more than what you give, and to find sweetness in every test that draws me closer to Your love. Announce Your love for me in the heavens until I hear that announcement myself in paradise. Surround me with it and everything around me and let me feel it deep inside myself. Oh Lord, you perfect everything you touch. Make me one of those who do good because You do good. Guide me to the  ways of good in every single one of my dealings. Then let my deeds of excellence to others be a reflection of your unmatched perfection. For every small effort I make, reward me beyond measure. Let me never grow tired of thanking You, and never forget that gratitude itself is a gift from you. Accept from me what is broken and multiply it until it becomes whole. 

Dear God, how perfect you are beyond everything I can imagine. When the world feels loud and heavy, remind me that you are untouched by its chaos. Let my glory and praise of you rise above the darkness, even if I drown myself in it, and pull me out of it by your perfection even after I dragged myself down. Purify me inside and out. Cleanse my worship of pride, my heart of resentment, my soul of anything that clouds its way back to you and make me worthy of the nearness I seek to you. Send peace into every storm within my chest. Let your calm settle where fear once lived, your safety surround what the world cannot protect. Make me a source of peace for others until I meet you in the home of peace and get to hear from you yourself. 

Dear God, heal me in ways that medicine cannot fix. Remove whatever sickness has touched my body and expel along with it any sin that poisoned my soul. Let every ache remind me of your mercy and every cure draw me closer to you. Heal my community from its wounds and make us whole again through faith and patience. Dear God, make my life pure enough to be accepted by you. Purify my wealth from the unlawful and my worship from showing off. Purify my clothes and my food in every way that I seek you. The All- Powerful, giver of all that heals and all that sustains, let me never forget that every gift from you is a blessed call back to you and let it find me only as a grateful recipient and servant.  

OTHER PRAYERS FOR YOU:

• A Prayer For Healing
• Prayer To The Creator
• Prayers For A New Relationship
• Prayers You Didn’t Know You Needed (By Hannah Brencher)

Dear God, you know what I hide and what I show, what I’ve done and will do. Let what you know of me be better than what people know of me. And forgive me for what only you know. Teach me what benefits me and let what you keep hidden from me always be for my good. The All-Wise, your wisdom surrounds what I cannot understand. When I question the purpose, remind me of your perfection. Grant me the patience to trust your timing and the insight to see the beauty unfolding in your decree. The Most Gracious, work gently through the details of my life. Send kindnesses that I may not notice until I look back but can still feel at every moment. Let your subtle care reach the corners of my heart that no words or people could ever touch. The Most Great, you are fully aware of what’s within me, my fears, my flaws and my hidden intentions. Purify what you see inside me until it is pleasing to you, and let nothing inside me here contradict what would be produced when I stand before you bare. 

Dear God, forgive me for every single sin that I’ve ever committed. Cover me in this life and the next, and don’t let shame keep me from returning to you. For every time I rise and fall again, meet me with another chance. Let my heart grow softer with every repentance, and my view of the door of your mercy only grow wider. For you have never tired of forgiving me despite my constant sins. The All-Forgiving, forgive me for what I know and what I don’t, for what I’ve done and what I still may do. Wash away every hidden trace of my wrongdoing and turn the stains of my past into light on my scrolls. Reach me with your forgiveness even in the holes that I’ve dug for myself. Turn towards me so that I may turn back to you and call me back every time I drift and accept me every time I return. Make repentance my constant companion and joy and heaven my reward in finding you again. 

Amen.

Mariam Shittu