So this year I am being accountable to spend some time meditating and praying the Word over my life and my family and friends. When I pray with the children in the morning we do UP, OUT and IN prayers - about God, about friends, about ourselves.
Today is Psalm 84, and here is my prayer. Feel free to pray this over your heart and family too...
Lord, you are lovely! May I feast my heart and eyes upon you this year. May my strength be in you, and my heart be set on pilgrimage. Don't let me settle for anything less than you, Jesus, a place near your altar. Thank you that you are the LIVING God and that you invite us to the intimacy of your heart.
Thank you for the promise that as I pass through the valleys of weeping this year, you will make them a place of springs, and your autumn rains will bring life-giving water from the tears I shed.
Thank you that you will bring me before your throne as I journey with you, and that you hear my prayers.
Look upon my children and husband, O God, look with favour upon them. May they be your anointed ones. May they long for your courts instead of the streets of this world.
I pray that Jessica and Luke would grow up to be doorkeepers in your house O God. That they would be those who welcome your people into your presence. That they would carry your presence with them every day. May they reflect your glory as Moses did. Shine the light of your face upon them.
Let Luke (the lightbearer) blaze reflecting your character. May Jessica (the seer) see the hope and future you have promised her, and speak out what she sees.
Lord Almighty, I am blessed! I trust in you.
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Jessica: The original Hebrew name Yiskāh, means "foresight", or being able to see the potential in the future. The Hebrew root sakhah (ס.כ.ה) means "to see", so the name Yiskah, with the added future-tense yod, implies foresight. Iscah is the niece of Abraham.
Katherine: "pure"
Luke is a Greek name, meaning "light".
David: "beloved"
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