Today I wanted to share with you a “LetGodLoveYou” Prayer written by my sweet and amazing friend Sheila Mangum.
“Lord, you are GREAT and most worthy to be praised. (Psalm 145:3) There is NONE like You. (Jeremiah 10:6) You are the God who sees. (Genesis 16:13) You see Your daughter in desperate need of Your love and attention. (Psalm 121:1-8) Your heart yearns for her wholeness. (John 5:5-7) Your desire is for her heart to explode with Your love. Your love is safe for her. It will not wound. (Psalm 147:3)
Your love heals and delivers. It will NOT leave. (Deuteronomy 31:8) Father, stoop down this minute and give Your daughter the attention she needs today. (Psalm 18:35) She feels alone. She feels weak. Therefore, fill her days with laughter, love, and beauty. (Proverbs 17:22) Strengthen her spirit to receive Your healing love. Even if she feels like running from you, chase her down. Prove to Your daughter You are faithful no matter what! (2 Timothy 2:13)
Give her encouragement when she expects it the least. (1 John 4:19) Give her mercy when she feels the least to deserve it. (Ephesians 2:4) Give her whispers of love into her heart. (Psalm 73:26) Let her taste and see that You are good. She is fortunate because YOU are Faithful and True! (Revelation 19:11) “O taste and see that the Lord [our God] is good! Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the woman who trusts and takes refuge in Him.” Psalm 34:8 (AMP) Father, wipe her tears today and love her BIG. (Revelation 21:4)
Friend, let’s Let God Love US as we RETURN TO OUR FIRST LOVE today. (Revelation 2:4) In the Mighty Name of Jesus we have prayed. Amen and Amen!
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God is so good. I will rest in Him and trust in His will for my life.
When life gets busy and I take my eyes off Him is when those feelings of insecurity creep and take hold. I need to remember to spend time with Him, keep my focus on Him and let God love me.
What a beautiful reminder to stop striving on my own and to be still and Know that He is God and in control. This a beautiful prayer to remember everyday!
Thank you for sharing this prayer. It reminds me to be patient and let God do the rest! I would love to win a prayer journal!
I love that the prayer says that God’s love will not leave. It’s so easy to rely on people and then get hurt when they leave, but an excellent reminder that God’s love won’t leave us.
Thank you Renee for sharing prayers from scripture. Sheila’s prayer touched my heart. I pray every morning, every evening & touch base with God thru-out my day (trying to be like Brother Lawrence & “Practicing the Presence of God” in all I do) – practicing spiritual principles in all my affairs (practice is the key word). I try to journal but have never kept a prayer journal so it would be nice to have a special journal from you that had been played over by you. Again, thank you for your inspirational words.
In Gratitude,
Janet
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You girls are a wonderful inspiration! Thanks for the great give aways this month! What generous hearts you all have.
I am fairly new at this and my thoughts might not be as put together as others, but Sheila’s prayer spoke to me because I frequently feel like I am not good enough for God’s love. I have done things in my life that still to this day I think about and they make my heart hurt. Even though I have asked for forgiveness time and time again I still feel that I don’t deserve it. I struggle daily with certain decisions that I have made that haunts me. I had an abortion when I was 16 and did it under pressure. I feel that if I had just stood my ground and would not have been weak I would not have killed an innocent being. I have four children now but have within the last 7 months have had 2 miscarriages and I am struggling with the thought of that’s what I get for killing my baby 20 years ago. Sometimes I have those “Unglued” moments with my kids and feel that I am the worst mom and that “God is so disappointed in me.” I will be printing this prayer and keeping it at arms length. Thank you for sharing that prayer.
This is a prayer that has struck me right in my heart….I have had some very important decisions to make lately. I finally was confronted by a super friend last night- Joyce are you trying to do everything your friends suggest? Are you trying to please them? And, as I thought about it…she was very right. I need to make my decisions for myself for me and the glory of my awesome GOD
I would love to have the journal, and I easily, easily identified with Sheila’s prayer.
Sometimes I pray things from my heart- and then I feel good. It is when I get caught up pleasing my so-called friends that I get my self into difficulty.
I have a lot to learn and can use resources to help me…..I would be delighted to receive this book. May God bless you. Joyce
this prayer spoke into my need! -give her the attention she needs – she feels alone and weak…
I really loved how she put so many Scriptures in her pray and how to put it towards life today. I have always found praying scripture with my name in it as difficult so this pray is so refreshing for me! Would love to have the pray journal to keep track of my family prayers, my Bible fellowship prayer request and my prayer request! I have tried before with just loose paper or with emails but feel a journal would be more cohesive and organized (which I love to be typically) to allow me to be a better prayer warrior ! Thanks for this opportunity!
LeAnne
What a most beautiful prayer to read…I am going to share with so many others. I have been struggling to be “just so” that I can be “just everyones…” I am God’s and that is all that matters. If I give it to him then I will be the woman of God I can be. A prayer journal would be a wonderful way to put what I think into words and have the thoughts down. Thank you for the opportunity to read, share and enjoy your post. May the Lord continue to bless you in amazing ways.
Smiles & Blessings,
Robin
Thank you for sharing such a beautiful prayer. I have a friend who needs to hear that – I shall give it to her and also pray it for her. Would love to win a prayer journal. I have been considering encouraging people in my church to start a prayer journal (I’m discipleship deacon and part of my role is to encourage individual and corporate prayer). God seems to have laid this on my heart to do and I have been asking him for confirmations – this prayer and your prayer journal competition seem to be another confirmation that God wants me to do this. Thank you 🙂
After 6.5 long years of watching my then, 21 year old daughter, recover from a ruptured brain aneurysm…I’ve also had to learn to let go, let God and rest in His abundant blessings, though painful many days yet. 7 years ago, while she suffered not only a sub arachnoid hemorrhage bleed in the brain, she also had a subsequent stroke during her coiling surgery. All this took place just less than one week after completing her sophomore year of her college years. But life changed in that instant that I received that call…”come quickly…we’re not sure what is going on…4 hours later…now we realize she has a horrible condition called a ruptured brain aneurysm and she has less than 24 hours or she’ll rebleed and die…which major hospital would you like us to call to see who has available space…we can’t guarantee anything as to what she’ll be like after the surgery….she has short-term memory loss and lost her speech but should get better with therapy…she won’t ever be able to go to college again….then you don’t serve the same God that we do!….she went to college to finish…she’s not who she was, but we have her…she’s different, not the same daughter you used to have…His eye is on the sparrow, so I know He watches me…focus on giants and you stumble, focus on God, and your giants tumble.” So many thoughts, fears, doubts and unknowns. Now, 6.5 years later, we have her and she’s come so far. Not the same daughter we used to have but WE HAVE HER, and we are grateful Lord for using her to teach us to trust you completely, even when we cannot see, when we cannot hear, nor understand. Today, I want to continue to just rest at your feet, to listen to the call you give me, her, to serve you in ways that glorify YOU, Lord. I need to rest. This mama needs to rest…to write my heart to you though you already know it…to wait on you. Thank you, Lord. I’m waiting…resting….ahhhhh…sweet rest. There IS joy in this crazy journey of life! There’s no one’s cross I’d rather bear….no ones.
Sheila,
This is such a beautiful prayer. I meet with a wonderful group of women to pray for one another. I plan on taking your prayer to our next meeting to provide encouragement for all of those great women. The prayer filled my heart with hope and served as an anchor for my soul. What a beautiful reminder of God’s love for us. Thank you!
The prayer Sheila prayed is me too! My prayers are growing and me with it. I’d love to win! Thank you for your ministry!
This prayer spoke to the center of my heart and what God has been working on in me. TRUST. It is hard for me to “trust” without being in “control.” But this kind of trust is not the real thing. God is trying to show me that only in letting go and surrendering all to Him, can He give me back the Life and Love He intends for me and for my family. He has been very patient with me as I am learning this lesson step by step. Another element of Trust I am working on is learning to Trust that I can and do hear God clearly. I have intuitions and leadings but then I doubt myself. He is showing me, in some cool ways, that I am on the right track and to Trust in my ability to hear Him more!
What a lovely prayer to uplift and hold me when I am discouraged. It reminded me that He always cares for His daughter.
Thanks Sheila! What a blessing!
This is such a wonderful reminder to me that God is always therefor me when I need Him the most. Thank you for sharing this beautiful prayer on your blog
I would love to win the Prayer Journal, but even if not, I have found an old journal of mine and am claiming 50 days of blessings and miracles for myself to overcome this deep depression I’ve been in lately. I will be journalling for 50 days, starting today, of positives and answered prayers. It is going to be my ladder out of this pit of darkness.
What a lovely and powerful prayer. As I read it, I could help think about how amazing our Father is. As He is so faithful to answer this prayer, we too should give others encouragement when they expect it the least, and give others mercy when they feel they don’t deserve it.
What a beautiful prayer of love from the God of perfect love!
What a beautiful prayer! Reminding me that God loves me and showers me with His grace and goodness – even when I least expect or deserve it.
Powerful. {& Beautiful!}
Thank you. For writing and InSpiriting us …
After a hard day at work and stressful few weeks reading your prayer was very uplifting..need to focus on God’s love right now and allow it to refresh and renew me as I am feeling overwhelmed and kinda down..thanks
There’s just something about praying scripture, the words touch a place in the heart very few words can ever find. Thank you for sharing and offering up a joy-filled giveaway!
This prayer by Sheila was very moving. I cried and I’m not sure why. I guess I would just love to really experience what the prayer is talking about with my Heavenly Father. My dad stopped being a dad to us 5 kids when I was very young and so I guess rejection is what I and my siblings feel. Anyway Renee I read your devotional message this morning in the Made to Crave OBS and you knocked my socks off. I really was deeply affected by your message. I plan to follow (stalk you) No just kidding but I so relate and just want to thank you. <3
Hi, I would love to win a “Prayer Journal”. Sheila’s prayer was beautiful and heartfelt. I love how she prays straight from Bible verses. Praying from God’s Word is such a perfect way to pray. It’s the only way to find the right words–His Word. It is so effective and encouraging. Susan
Beautiful, encouraging prayer- thank you for sharing
Sheila’s prayer was exactly how I felt and exactly what I needed it helped me to feel our Lord’s presence better
Love this prayer….such a wonderful reminder that despite our weakest feeling moments…we are strong because we love the Almighty and He has claimed us as His own! So blessed! And, so happy I have stumbled upon (and signed up to follow your blog)!
Thank you so very much for the uplifting words and testimony of our worth to our Father.
May we each gather strength and courage and in turn bring that to someone else.
My Friday is more peaceful for having taken the time to read and reflect on her words.
Many blessings and hugs, j
What a beautiful and insightful prayer for us tobe and feel loved. Thank you for the opportunity to use a prayer journal. Receive peace on the Happy Hearts Day. Marti
I’m recently began copying and printing prayers, collecting them to learn how and what to pray. I went to TJMAXX (department store) and the Tuesday Morning Store yesterday to look for a scrap book or journal to paste my prayers into so I can flip through the book at anytime and find a prayer for what is on my heart at any moment. I didn’t find what I was looking for, but I intend to find one. It made me smile to read your post and see that you have this giveaway. Love it!
Always encouraged by your posts. Thanks for the chance to win!
This prayer is so awesome! I love that this prayer is all based on scripture!!
What a beautiful prayer………….SO WONDERFUL to know that God loves us and we experience it! Thanks for posting this Renee.
I look forward every morning to “Encouragement for Today”. It’s like my morning vitamin. Today’s prayers were exactly what Jesus ordered, as I have been battling with past rejections and low self esteem. I also have a friend who is battling with fears – the enemy has convinced her that cancer in her life or the life of her loved ones is inevitable. She spends her life in fear, please pray for her healing. I would love to have your devotional – I would have bought it, but I have been unemployed for 8 months now, and certainly cannot afford it. In the interim, I will continue to daily read your messages – they are uplifting, inspiring and very comforting. Thank you for the work that you do!
Oh how I needed this prayer and oh how I need a friend that knows me and knows and loves God. I have friends that know God, but they do not truly know me. I have one close friend that knows everything about me but does not know God. The one person that a wife should count as a best friend is my husband. He doesn’t have a clue about what my heart and soul needs. He doesn’t know God and has been running from God for quite a while. He doesn’t like it when someone tells him what to do, even God. Lately he has been on Facebook quite a bit. He has been communicating with a man who is Buddhist and has been posting Buddhist quotes. Two days ago he posted a quote with a pic of a statue of Buddha. I flipped out. It doesn’t anger me as much as it scares me and I don’t know what to do…I do know what to do. I should be praying, but I haven’t been praying for a long time. I feel so beat down that I can’t look up. Every time I try, I get hit again. I get it from all directions. Just when I think I can come up for air I get blindsided. When I do try to share with women at church, they don’t understand and they have nothing to say but I’ll pray for you. I am worn, torn, and utterly defeated. I have no one to turn to but strangers.
Lori God is with you and loves you and GOD is your best friend and will always be!!!!!! Trust God and remember everything is in his time not ours. Keep praying and try fasting some things prayed for take fasting as well. Pray and fast and trust God’s word he says that trust in him and your family will be saved.
I was raised with witchcraft and my parents don’t believe but I trust God and have faith that in his time not mine they will come to know him that their eyes and hearts and ears will be open and softened and ready to hear and learn all about him.
Have faith and know that you have a lot of sisters in Christ praying with you!!!!!
Blessings to you, Brandy Bunch
Today is Feb 14 and I am going thru a divorce that has been going on since October 2012. I filed, my husband married my and my children an after a couple years stepped away from our “family”. He would go to church or games nothing “family”. 4 months into the divorce he said he needed to make amends with a fellow deputies widow. A “religious” woman. She prayed with him for our marriage and that is where he is today. This hit me this valentine day. It really spoke to me that I am Gods Valentine and that is where MY worth is. I am still married til our new court date in April and I believe God can heal but my husband has to want that. That is why I would like a journal.
There are so many hurting women in my life right now. I would love to share this with them.
I would love you win
What a wonderful prayer! This is my first Valentines alone and this prayer was a great reminder of God’s great love for each of us no matter what we are going through? Thank you so much!
Thank you for this prayer! It was such an encouragement to me!
God’s word is so powerful and beautiful! Thank you, Sheila for the perfect Valentine’s Day gift and reminder. Reading this prayer made me smile on the inside. His love is amazing and so very real. After experiencing what feels like a lifetime of heartbreaks, rejections and fear, God’s love is setting me free. Thank you Jesus for loving me sweetly, deeply and unconditionally. You have my heart and I am grateful.
My heart has been battered many times in the past few years. I have been made to feel unworthy in two major areas of my life. Living with an angry and depressed alcoholic has taken it’s toll on my confidence. Not being able to share honestly my situation is difficult. I have also had the “rug” pulled out from under me by those above me several times. I don’t know where I would be without Christ and His word. When I feel like I can’t go on He lifts me up through faithful peaple like you.
I would love to experience your prayer journal and would also love to sharing the gifts I will reap from it. God bless you and continue in Jesus Name.
God’s love never ceases to amaze me! Just when I am feeling the lowest, unloved, and lonely, he sends this prayer in the middle of the night for comfort! Why is it we turn to God as a last resort and not the first resource of power and love?
I love reading your stories….they stir my soul. I have always loved Isaiah 54– at a turning point in my life it helped me to survive and I still stand on the truth written here. Thank you for your prayer for those who may have put their expectations in things other than God alone. You seem to have experienced things that help you to encourage and comfort those who need to be comforted. God’s ways are mysterious….thank you!