ALIGN

Align my heart with Yours today so that I can give You the glory You deserve.

I saw this quote and decided to make it my prayer As I prayed this, I started thinking about what my life would look like if my heart was completely aligned with God’s heart. How would that change me? Would I use different words when speaking with folks? Would I use a different tone? Would I be more thoughtful of other people’s feelings? Would my physical appearance change? Would I try to protect other people more? Would I be a defender of the defenseless? What exactly would my life look like? I couldn’t get a clear visual, so I did what God calls us to do when we need wisdom and understanding…I ask Him:

Dear Father in Heaven, Lord of the Earth, and King of My Heart,

Align my heart with Your heart today. That’s my prayer — to the extent that my heart can be changed, as a mere mortal, as a sinner made Holy only by You, day-after-day, minute-by-minute, Align my heart with Your heart today.

Get rid of anything in my heart that is wrong, evil, in the way of Your purposes and Your will for me. Cultivate a Spirit of constant confession in my heart, Lord, so that nothing is interfering with my alignment to You. Point out to me in a glaring way, a two-by-four if necessary, my specific sins, my wrong thoughts, my wrong words, my wrong actions. Show me the sins, even one’s I’m not even aware of, that keep me out of alignment with You.

Align my heart — adjust it, straighten it, arrange it in a proper line to be able to be in cooperation with You. Quiet the Pushy-me, Pully-You. Adjust my heart, O Lord, as with an electrical circuit, bring the two components together, in alignment, Your heart and mine, to generate power. I know that when my heart is aligned with Your’s, Your power works through me and it is electric! I know that when something is electrified by You that Your forces are unstoppable. Your power is unstoppable! When my heart aligns with Your heart you unleash the power to make something happen. Your power within me generates the energy needed to change the world, or at least my little corner of it. When two circuits align Lord, when my heart is aligned with Your heart, You make the Light Shine!

I know if one circuit is down or out of alignment, if one component is not working properly, there is no power in my life. I confess, O Lord, it is always me out of alignment with You. You are Perfect. You are Holy. You are Faithful. You are True. It is never You that is not in alignment.

Pull me into Your perfect alignment, today and every day! Pull me into Your wonder-working power! What areas of my life are out of alignment with You? What parts of my heart am I still not willing to align with Your heart? What areas of my life am I still trying to control on my own? What areas of my life am I trying to use my own weak, actually nonexistent power, to control? I confess, O Lord, that my stubborn, broken circuit, hard-heartedness is of not of You. I confess that my life does not bring glory to You when I’m out of alignment.

Thank you Lord, that as a believer that one part of the alignment is, the connection, is always there — You! Hallelujah! I praise You that Your Holy Spirit lives within me, that He is right at my heart-tip, that He is powering me to come into alignment with You. I praise You that when He works within me that Your supernatural, resurrection power, is an absolute force in my life, aligning, straightening, smoothing out and connecting my heart circuit to Your’s.

Here is my heart, El Shaddai, God Almighty, Elohim, All Powerful God, El Eloah, Mighty Strong God, El Elyon, Most High God, El-Gibhor, Mighty Messiah, Powerful Warrior King, The Mighty God, align it with Your heart today, use whatever it takes, so that You will receive All Blessing, All Honor, and All Glory, O God.

Holy Spirit, please do a work in me today. Where my prayer is insufficient or out of line with Your Will, align it and make it perfect with Your groanings to God the Father.

Amen.

This is my prayer for me today. These are my words. Write your own prayer seeking for Him to align Your heart with His today. Make it personal. Make it genuine. Introspection is hard. But it is a must. Our God is not a surface…Now I lay me down to sleep…kind of God. He is a deep supernatural, Omnipotent God! He deserves more and requires more than a glance or passing thought. He deserves all the glory!