A Prayer For Today

A daily dose of prayers from my heart to your own. May God use these words to raise you up to heights beyond your fears, doubts, insecurities, and sin.

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Please pray for me. I flunked all my subjects and i was so disappointed i relapsed after 4 yeara clean. Let me have the movtivation and courage to start over again.

Praying for you to recovery in mind, body, heart, and soul. For the desire to begin and again as well as gentleness for yourself.

Fighting!

Dele

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There is no chain this love can’t break...

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You give me hope again...

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Dear God...

I can’t hide from you, and I don’t know why I try to. You see all the parts that make me — me. You know all the layers of my soul. You accept the good and the bad inside of me believing I can be more. Your faith in me astounds me. Your love humbles me. You bring me to my knees.

You are not satisfied with me just existing in this world. You encourage and challenge me to live honestly. To shine brightly. To strive for more than leftover pieces. You push me to face my fears and my flaws. To overcome my anxieties. To be more than I’ve settled for.

You stretch my soul in directions I’ve been afraid to go. You dig up all the chaos in my heart and make sense of it — make sense of me. You ask for me to try, to fight, to learn, to grow — to tear down my walls and make bridges out of all the broken pieces. You take my hand in your hand, my pain into your heart, and you teach me to breathe. You teach me to keep going. Keep praying. Keep fighting. Keep trying. You don’t let me stay in despair. You don’t let me give in or give up. You stay by my side in the light and in the dark. You are the truest thing in my life. I can always be me when I’m with you.

Even when I lie to you, even when I hide from you , you still choose me. You still see someone worth fighting for. You sit with me in my confusion, you help me clean up the wreckage. You always stay with me. When I run away, you run after me. You hold me. You forgive me. You put all my fractured pieces back together.

When I’m not okay, you listen. You are there for me in my panic. You remember me. You always remember me. Thank you for all the times you’ve mended me. Thank you for always being there. No matter how awful I am, you don’t leave me behind. You never give up on me. You never get tired of me. You never stop choosing me. I don’t have the words for how grateful I am to belong to you. To have a home in your arms.

Thank you. Thank you for choosing me every day. Thank you for forgiving me. Thank you for being patient with me. Thank you for believing that beautiful things can grow in me. Thank you for wiping my tears. Thank you for walking me through my fears. Thank you for helping me breathe. Thank you for loving me…

Even now you fight for me. You carry me through all the hours of each day. You help me to believe in and seek brighter days. You encourage me to choose better. To live and not just exist. You help me to understand that I was made to come alive in every moment and not just survive.

You make me see the possibilities inside of me. You’ve painted my soul with hope and filled my heart with light. You see me in a way no human being does or can. You see who I was, who I am, and who I can be. You see everything clearly. I am completely visible to you. And there is so much beauty and freedom in that truth.

Thank you for holding my hand. Thank you for giving me a safe place to breathe, rest, and grow in. Thank you for loving me in all my mess and beauty. Thank you for asking me to be more than pain, more than sin, more than I’ve allowed myself to be.

There are still so many unknowns. So many uncertainties. So many questions that don’t have any answers. I don’t see the whole picture, but I know you do and that’s enough for me.

Day by day, breath by breath, little by little I find my way with you by my side.

With love,

Dele

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I know it’s alright, you are near every night

Always at my side, always in my mind

The fear and the fights, the pain, the plight

Has no hold on my life, in the dark there is light

When I feel so suppressed, all the things in my chest

When the fear doesn’t rest, you protect

Because you see and you ache

And your heart doesn’t wait, you’re already there

I’ve seen you, I’ve seen you

To see you again

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Life only makes sense when I'm doing it with you. Holding your hand. Walking through each day with you. Trusting in your strength to hold me together. Only you make all my puzzle pieces fit together beautifully.

Dele Olanubi

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I surrender my restless heart to you. Comfort me. Teach me. Lead me. May I find my rest in you. Be my refuge. Be my friend. Be my home. Calm the waves inside of me. Soothe the child within my soul that cries for a safe place. Breathe your word into my lungs and fill me up. Love me where I'm at and encourage me to keep going. I need you. I have always needed you. I will always need you.

Dele Olanubi

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I pray that you would be enough for me. I pray that I would not look to another person for my validation, meaning, satisfaction, purpose -- my worth. I pray to find myself in you. I pray to let your love, your Word, and your presence fulfill and sustain me. May you be the answer to my questions. May you be the peace in my panic. Lord, I need you in my weakness as I do in my strength. Be with me when I tremble as you are when I am brave. May intimacy begin and end with you. May I not let the world speak louder than Jesus.

With love,

Dele

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To The Love of My Life...

Thank you for sticking with me in the highs and the lows of living in this world. Thank you for letting me be broken in front of you. Thank you for wiping away my tears. Thank you for seeing me in my entirety. Thank you for being my home, my friend, my strength – my hope.

You have carried me from the darkest nights into the brightest days and every moment in between. You have encouraged me in my doubts and rebuked me in my sin. You have held my hand when the pain was overwhelming. You have held me together through every ache, every heartbreak – every seemingly endless moment of despair. You mend me day by day. You speak truth and joy into my heart. You seep into my darkness and wrap me in your comforting arms. You never leave me no matter how awful I am to you. You choose me. You love me. You stay with me.

You’ve seen me at my best and at my worst. No matter how many times I fail you, your grace finds me and guides me back to you. No matter how much of a mess I am you still find me beautiful, worthy, capable – lovely. You open my eyes to see myself the way you do. You teach me to be confident, to be kind, to be brave, to be bold, to be honest – to be myself.

You tell me I am enough for you. You tell me I am home and whole in you. You crush my insecurities with your unending love. You have taught me how to find peace in my panic and hope in my despair. I can breathe because of you. I can try because of you. You make me able. You make me believe in the possibilities in my story.

There is so much to say, but my words are not enough to explain how much you mean to me. You are my brightest star. You are my greatest joy. You alone complete me. I am not me when I am not with you. You bring the light. You bring the healing. You and only you liberate my soul.

I don’t deserve you, but I am thankful for you. I don’t understand you, but I trust you. I don’t fully know your ways, but I have faith in you. Where you lead, I want to follow. I choose you. I believe in you. I am yours forever and ever.

Thank you for not letting go of me. Who I am today is because you never gave up me. I only make sense when I am tethered to you. Thank you for choosing me every day. 

Jesus, I love you more and more as the days come and go.

Always yours,

Dele

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Dear God...

Thank you for everything. Thank you for loving me. Thank you for helping me. Thank you for redeeming me. Thank you for healing me. Thank you for keeping me alive. Thank you for never ever giving up on me.

I am alive because you didn’t let me drown in despair. 

I am alive because you held me together in my brokenness. 

I am alive because Jesus lives inside of me.

Thank you for getting me to who I am in this present moment today. Thank you for staying by my side even when I ran from you again and again and again. Thank you for listening to me rant. Thank you for letting me cry. Thank you for taking my ugliness, my bitterness, my anger -- my hurt and growing beautiful testimonies from them. Thank you for the people in my life, both near and far who support me, who love me, who believe in me -- who choose me every day. Thank you for never leaving me behind. Thank you for being the oxygen for my soul. I breathe you in and I am home. 

You sustain my heart. You are why and how I wake up everyday and choose life. I realized today that when I choose Jesus, when I cling to him -- I can choose everything else. I can choose joy, I can choose hope, I can choose self -control, I can choose to try because I am doing it with him. He is in everything I am, everywhere I go, and everything I do. He lives inside of me and all around me. I am alive in him. I shine because his light is within me, 

It’s all because of him. I am all because of him. Thank you for helping me remember who I belong to -- you. Thank you for teaching me how to endure with Jesus and not on my own. Thank you for guiding me back to you when I was so lost and so far from home. I am not whole unless I am connected to you. You are my refuge. You are my safe place. Nowhere and no one else will do but you my God.

Thank you for the strength to try. Thank you for the hope that my life is worth something because YOU gave it to me. Jesus died for me to have a story that was more than sin and despair. He gave his life to give me life; I pray to not forget that HE is the one that really matters. That every part of me is because of who HE is. I owe my life to Jesus, and I pray to live mine glorifying him in this world.

Thank you for accepting me God, for showing me the value inside of me. Thank you for staying with me, fighting for me, and not letting me sink into the abyss of pain. Thank you for beginnings, healing, community -- life.

With love,

Dele

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In my highs and in my lows You reign supreme. In the valleys and on the mountaintops I will cling to You. My story begins and ends with You. I declare Your power in my pain. I place my trust in the faithfulness of Your love. I will soar because You are my wings. I will dance and I will sing. I will glorify You. I will keep trying. I will keep fighting. I can go on because You walk with me. I can choose life because Your spirit empowers me. I am not alone. I am not a lost cause. I am Your legacy and You are my everything. My heart is Yours.

Dele Olanubi

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A Prayer For Today #349

Let the unending, perfect, and fearless love of Christ set you free from whatever and/or whoever imprisons you. Let His faithful love heal your heart and encourage your spirit. Let Jesus bring you out of the darkness and into His light, His presence -- His overwhelming love for you.

Today can be a beginning. Today can be a day when you feel alive again. A day when the ache and the pain diminish under the weight of Jesus' love for you. Today can be a day when you surrender your story to the One who gave His life for you. You can call out to your Savior trusting that He hears you, He sees you, He loves you, and He knows what's best for you. 

Jesus is here to heal you, not hurt you further. He is here to bring you out of the valley and away from the despair. Jesus is waiting for you to believe, to fight -- to have faith that He is near to you. Will you try today? Love, will you choose Him? 

You are not alone even though it feels like you are. You are not unloved or unseen. You are a child of God. You are a warrior. You are a living testimony to the faithfulness of Christ. He loves you. He sees you. He cares for you. He believes in you. You are not alone in the darkness. He's beside you. He's inside you. He's holding you together. There's no place He won't go to rescue you and bring you home. 

Hold on. Keep trying. Stay with us. Cry out to Jesus. Never stop fighting because He never will give up on you. The waves, the storms, the darkness are no match for His strength, His love, nor His faithfulness. You will not drown. He will not let you drown. The shores of joy await you. We are calling out to you. We are diving into the darkness to find you. We are praying for you. My heart, my friend, you are not in this war alone. We are with you. We are fighting too. So don't give up. Don't sink into sorrow. Don't let go of Jesus.

Let Him be the reason you try. Let Him be the passion that keeps you alive. Let Him lead your steps. Let Him inside your secret place. Let Him heal the hurt in your heart. Let Him teach you what it means to be loved, to be known -- to be cherished. 

Let today be a day where you breathe easier knowing, trusting, and accepting that you are a precious child of God. You are a glorious work of art. You have strength and you have purpose in Him. You can keep going. You can endure the fire because He is with you. You can choose love and light and life because He is with you. He is with you. He is with you. 

Hold onto Him. Hold onto joy. Hold on to the Word that gives life. Hold onto hope. Hold on my friend. He has not forgotten you... 

In His name we pray, Amen.

Be blessed and be a blessing. 

With love, Dele

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A Prayer For Today #348

Purify my soul with Your truth. Mend my heart with Your love. Restore my tired body and my broken mind. Make me come alive in Your presence. 

Jesus I am desperate for You. I am desperate for Your comfort, Your strength, and Your advice. I am desperate for relief and freedom. I am desperate to belong, to be known -- to find my home in Your arms. To find myself in Your Word. To find hope in Your life and Your love. 

I need You. I ache with how much I need You. You are never close enough. I am never deep enough. I need more of You. Jesus, flood my life with Your Spirit. Fill the holes and close the gaps inside of me. Pour Your healing love into me until everything that hurts surrenders to You. 

Lead me out of the valley. Break the chains in my heart, in my spirit, and in my mind. Help me see the beauty and the hope each day brings. Help me see that You are always near. Give me the faith to endure, to fight, to trust, to surrender, to try -- to choose life and love despite the darkness around and within me. 

No one knows or sees or understands me like You do. No one cares about or loved me as much as You do. Help me know You. Help me to love You. Help me to live and not just exist. Help me to find the light. Be the fire that burns bright and strong within my soul. Be my refuge. Be my partner. Be my friend. Be my shield. Be my everything. Jesus I need You. I need You. I need You so much.

I give You all my dreams and all my fears. I give You all my hopes and all my doubts. I give You my brokenness trusting that You alone make me whole. I take Your hand and cling to Your warmth. I choose You. I want to walk with You. I want to talk with You. I want to be held by You. I want my soul to dance in praise and adoration. I want to wake up each day knowing that You are why I live, why I try, why I forgive, why I... 

You are my reason. You are my purpose. You are my path. You are my strength. Lead me. Bind me to You. Keep me near. 

In Your name I pray, Amen.

Be blessed and be a blessing. 

With love, Dele

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A Prayer For Today #347

May Jesus be my motivation for every breath I breathe in this world. May Jesus be the reason I get up in the morning and choose life. May Jesus be my purpose, my passion, my inspiration to do more than just exist. 

May Jesus be my strength when I am weak. May Jesus be my light in the overwhelming darkness. May Jesus be my best friend, my greatest love -- my everything. May my life be a worship song to my Savior. May my soul dance for His glory. May testimonies be written in every heartbeat. May all I am be a declaration of His steadfast love and unbreakable faith in me. 

When I feel empty and alone may I remember He is near to me. When my doubts burden my dreams may I remember who I belong to. When my fear is greater than my faith may I remember that Jesus Christ conquers all. When life is overwhelming may I remember He is my refuge, my counselor, my defender, my friend -- my home. When my heart hurts may I remember that I need to surrender my pain to the One who made me. In all the storms may I cling to Jesus Christ. May my hope and my freedom be found in His love. 

Jesus be my motivation. Be my reason. Be my purpose and my passion. Inspire me. Set my soul on fire to burn bright and true for you. I need You by my side. I need You within me. I need You everywhere. Seep into my skin, my heart, my soul, my thoughts. Make me a reflection of You. May my life be a story that brings You joy. 

I need You. I need Your Spirit and Your hope. I need Your joy and Your faith. I need Your strength and Your courage. I need so much more of You in me. 

In Your name I pray, Amen. 

Be blessed and be a blessing. 

 With love, Dele

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A Prayer For Today #346

Take my empty heart and fill it with Christ. Let His love, His strength, His goodness -- His faith seep into all the recesses of me. Let me be full of Jesus. Let me be soaked in Him. Let each beat be drenched with His presence. Take my empty heart and make me whole in You. 

Take my broken soul and heal me. Find the fractured pieces and restore me. Capture the agony inside of me; destroy it with a love that saves. Rescue me from another day of not belonging. Hold my soul together. Bind every aching part of me to Your steadiness. I want to breathe You in. I need to. 

Take my chaotic mind and shatter the disorder. Wreck the lies that twist me up inside. Free me from the darkness; bring me to the truth, the light -- the hope of You in me. 

Every day I wake up alone in this brutal world and I wonder if You forgot about me. If You've left me. If you've finally had enough of me. I don't feel You. I don't hear You. I don't see You. I am hollow without You. I am starving for a connection that begins and ends with You. 

I am wicked. I am vile. I am lost. I am broken. I am weak. I am empty. Love me anyway. Pull me into Your embrace and save me. Speak life into my dead heart. Speak hope into my broken soul. Speak peace into my chaotic mind. Save me from myself, from my past, from my pain -- from everything and everyone that murders anything good in me. 

I need You to talk to me. I need You to speak so loudly the ghosts of my past tremble before You. I need You to scream into my emptiness and let Your strength echo through me until I can stand again. I need You to hold me with love. I need Your love like I need oxygen. I need Your love to fill me, heal me, save me. No one else will do. What and who I need is You. Love me back to life, to hope, to faith, to joy.

I am dried up. I am falling apart. I am crumbling. And I can't fight it. I can't fight it anymore. There is no more hope, no more strength, no more faith that things could be different. That I could be better. The fire has died and all that's left are ashes. Will you make something beautiful out of that? Out of me? 

Everything is wrong. Everything is broken. Everything hurts. No one does or can understand me but You. I don't have the words for the chaos in me. I can't explain the loneliness or the darkness. I can't make sense of anything. I think I've been lost for a long time. Maybe even for my whole messed up life. 

When will You find me? When will You free me? When will goodness and mercy and love and hope and joy and peace be mine? When will the pain really stop? When will I wake up whole and safe and confident in my body? When will it get better? When will I breathe again without this constant heaviness in me. When will I stop crying? Stop hurting? Stop trembling? When will everything bad end and everything good begin? 

Where are You? Where are You when I'm lying in bed crying? Where are You when it's hard to breathe? Where are You when the loneliness pulls me under again? Where are You when the nightmares come to torture me? Where are You when I'm crumbling in my skin? Where are You God? Where are You when I'm screaming for You to see me, love me, touch me -- save me? Where are You when I'm begging for You to hold me in Your arms and let me feel alive again? Where are You when my world is falling apart and I have no one to talk to? Where are You when I need You?

I am dying God. More and more the life and the light leaves me. Without You I won't make it. I break a little more each day You leave me here alone. I shatter in Your silence. Are you there? Do you care? Am I worth it to You? Where are You? 

You could save my life but, You don't. You could heal me, but You don't. You could give me peace, but You don't. I will die without You. I will be consumed and then I will truly be destroyed.

I need You. I need to hear Your voice. I need to feel Your love. I need to see Your hope. I need You. Let Your faith be mine. Let Your strength fill me up. 

Rescue me. No one else can but You. 

 In Your name I pray, Amen. 

Be blessed and be a blessing, 

 With love, Dele

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A Prayer For Today #345

I never seem to have the right words or the right heart or even the right timing. I pray that you hear me anyway. 

Lord I'm so lost in this world. So unable to cope in the chaos that is life. I tremble in the noise. I stumble through the days. I can't seem to ever find solid ground. I'm always struggling to breathe. 

I know in my soul that you made me more than this. You called me to be a child that reflects you. You called me to be brave, to be honest, to persevere -- to have faith no matter what. I am failing you. I feel like that's all I do. 

I don't know what to do God. I don't know what the right choice is. I don't know what steps to take. I don't know if I can really do this. I know exactly what I should do and who I should be in my life but the process of becoming that person is daunting. It's overwhelming. 

There are so many obstacles. So much time required. So many uncertainties. I crumble under the weight of everything I need to be, do, and have. I don't want to fall apart because the road is long and the journey is full of unknowns. 

I want to have faith that no matter what I face you always stand beside me. I want to have confidence in the wonders you can create in my life. I want to believe you will provide for me as I walk down this path. I want to be brave and I want to be wise. I want to let my faith carry me through the valley of fear. I want to take your hand and do this with you. You have given me a calling, and I want to respond in faith. I want to choose peace over panic. Faith over fear. Bravery over cowardice. 

Lead me God. Guide me to the right choice, the right path. Bring me to that place where I can learn, grow, and become all you believe I can be. Lead me Father to the right road. Guide my footsteps, my thoughts -- my heart. 

I can't do this without you. I need you. I need your encouragement. I need your protection. I need your wisdom. I need your favor. I need your strength. I need all of you in all of me. 

Help me my King. Show me that my dreams can come true if I surrender them to you. Teach me that obstacles are not greater than you. Speak peace into my anxiety. Light a fire in my heart that burns bright and strong. Help me know victory in my life. 

What do I do God? 

 Lead me. 

Where do I go? 

 Lead me.

Who am I? 

Lead me. 

Truly I don't know what to do. I don't want to make the wrong choice. I don't want fear the lead my steps. I could use some fatherly advice. I need you God. Please speak to me. I need to hear your voice. I need to know your heart for me. Take my hand and lead the way. 

In Jesus' name, Amen. 

Be blessed and be a blessing. 

With love, 

Dele