Lead Us, O Jesus, Where You Will — and Give Us Grace to Follow Submissively!

 

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 

⏤ 2 Chronicles 7:14 

Praying solves the problems of prayer. 

⏤ Samuel Chadwick

We always need to follow God! We need to accept His will be done and follow Him. Pick up our cross and follow Him! We can say, "Lead us, O Jesus, where You will — and give us grace to follow submissively." I saw this in the Mornings with God App today and really like this phrase. It is another type of O Jesus I surrender myself to you, take care of everything. I asked God daily when I say my prayers, especially the one to St. Anthony to ask Him to share my prayers with Jesus, but mostly that He lead me, guide me, instruct me, bring me to where I should be and that I always accept His will be done. One thing we need to remember is that is all begins with prayer! 

The Morning with God App said, "Our Father in Heaven, we, Your earthly children, worship You. We thank You for Your word, which we can read at the opening of the day, taking it for a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. May it be to us indeed a light this day, shining for us and showing us the way of holiness. We always need a divine lamp, for earth is dark. Sin has made it perilous to travel on these treacherous ways without a lamp. No human friend can guide us infallibly. We cannot guide ourselves. We would never find the way home, were it not for the light of truth which You have given, which makes every smallest part of the path through this world clear and plain if we will walk in the light. Let us not try to walk in the light of our own understanding, and stumble and fall. We put our hands in Yours this morning, and we would be led by You all the day. We do not know where our paths will take us. It may be that darkness lies before us — or hard and rough ways, that we must enter some Gethsemane. Lead us, O Jesus, where You will — and give us grace to follow submissively. We seek Your blessing upon all the work of this day. Show us what You will have us to do. May we find the tasks You have in Your plan and purpose for us, and then do them faithfully. Let us never resist Your gracious leading. Enable us always to do Your will, as it is done in Heaven. Bless us . . .

in our home life,

in our friendships,

in our social life,

in our play and our work,

in our praying and our serving,

in our toil and our struggle,

in our joy and in our sorrow.

We ask all in the name of Jesus our Savior. Amen."

Pray for God's will be done. Surrender to Him! Let us follow Jesus submissively!