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Passionate Pursuit
These prayers are from a Young man’s real diary. There are prayers of devotion and pain. There are deep cries and wounds over multiple relationships and a real struggle with lust and sex. There is a pursuit for God’s seemingly elusive will. There are prayers for souls and friends. There are glorious victories. And unreturned love. There are answered prayers. Poetry and prose. And then there is the beauty of Gods hidden hand. The Author.
“It is difficult to place the genre of this book. It is real -You will SEE yourself in this detailed and graphic book.” Pst Mike M
Preface
The prayers in this book were not intended for you! I was just praying, and when I was unable to pray, discouraged or down sometimes I resorted to write. During many of these times I would grab an old blue used diary and pray with a pen. Not write. So many of the ‘happy prayers’ were prayed out in the usual way and I have no record of them.
There has been no attempt to clean up the prayers. All we ‘good christians’ are wont to come to God and try to make ourselves look good – the most pitiful and woeful exercise one can ever attempt! By virtue of this, the prayers are raw as they were intended for a divine private audience. Take the honesty for what it is, and learn with me to come to God, as in the words of the hymn, “Just as I am!”
Many of the people mentioned in the prayers are alive, (and the situations depicted), are all real. To avoid embarrassing people, especially, where personal information is included, names have been changed to protect their identities.
So why publish the prayers?
We all have an inner world. A place of private thoughts, and deep desire. Sometimes this is a place of great victory and untold shame. This place is the theatre of this book. This is the place the bible calls ‘the heart’.
And to God it’s open and bare. Nothing is hidden. Nothing!
Better still a day is coming when your life will be plain like a glass. All will be revealed. All! Take an early look into my heart, for your turn is coming!
Luke 8:17 (NIV) For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.
This book is for your encouragement in your walk of faith. It is a reminder of where you have come from. It reveals the great need to mentor the youth. When I have read and prayed these prayers recurrently, they have refreshed me and challenged my attitude towards prayer, ministry and the fallen world around us.
At the end of each chapter you will find a reflection. It seeks to give direction, and sometimes suggest corrections to some of the views I held at the time. It also serves to shed light, and suggest a better way to deal with some of the struggles young people go through.
Don’t just read these prayers, pray them! If you need to pray systematically look out for the passionate pursuit devotionals. And may the Lord of all vessels, large and small, find in you (and me), clean, clear and transparent ‘glassware’ ready for his use.
2 Timothy 2:20-22 (ESV) Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honourable use, some for dishonourable. Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonourable, he will be a vessel for honourable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work. So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
“It is difficult to place the genre of this book. It is real -You will SEE yourself in this detailed and graphic book.” Pst Mike M
Preface
The prayers in this book were not intended for you! I was just praying, and when I was unable to pray, discouraged or down sometimes I resorted to write. During many of these times I would grab an old blue used diary and pray with a pen. Not write. So many of the ‘happy prayers’ were prayed out in the usual way and I have no record of them.
There has been no attempt to clean up the prayers. All we ‘good christians’ are wont to come to God and try to make ourselves look good – the most pitiful and woeful exercise one can ever attempt! By virtue of this, the prayers are raw as they were intended for a divine private audience. Take the honesty for what it is, and learn with me to come to God, as in the words of the hymn, “Just as I am!”
Many of the people mentioned in the prayers are alive, (and the situations depicted), are all real. To avoid embarrassing people, especially, where personal information is included, names have been changed to protect their identities.
So why publish the prayers?
We all have an inner world. A place of private thoughts, and deep desire. Sometimes this is a place of great victory and untold shame. This place is the theatre of this book. This is the place the bible calls ‘the heart’.
And to God it’s open and bare. Nothing is hidden. Nothing!
Better still a day is coming when your life will be plain like a glass. All will be revealed. All! Take an early look into my heart, for your turn is coming!
Luke 8:17 (NIV) For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.
This book is for your encouragement in your walk of faith. It is a reminder of where you have come from. It reveals the great need to mentor the youth. When I have read and prayed these prayers recurrently, they have refreshed me and challenged my attitude towards prayer, ministry and the fallen world around us.
At the end of each chapter you will find a reflection. It seeks to give direction, and sometimes suggest corrections to some of the views I held at the time. It also serves to shed light, and suggest a better way to deal with some of the struggles young people go through.
Don’t just read these prayers, pray them! If you need to pray systematically look out for the passionate pursuit devotionals. And may the Lord of all vessels, large and small, find in you (and me), clean, clear and transparent ‘glassware’ ready for his use.
2 Timothy 2:20-22 (ESV) Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honourable use, some for dishonourable. Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonourable, he will be a vessel for honourable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work. So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
293 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 8, 2017
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