God is Our Help - Joshua 3: 1-13

Sometimes there are prayers that are just hard to pray. Prayers that ask us to set aside ourselves and our desires, which seems so contrary to our modern way of praying, where we give our laundry list of wants and desires to God and simply expect them to take place. One of those hard prayers is the Wesley Covenant Prayer because it asks us to put God first:

I am no longer my own, but yours.

Put me to what you will, rank me with whom you will;

put me to doing, put me to suffering;

let me be employed for you, or laid aside for you,

exalted for you, or brought low for you;

let me be full,

let me be empty,

let me have all things,

let me have nothing:

I freely and wholeheartedly yield all things

to your pleasure and disposal.

And now, glorious and blessed God,

Father, Son and Holy Spirit,

you are mine and I am yours. So be it.

And the covenant now made on earth, let it be ratified in heaven.

Amen.

This prayers asks us to make some pretty big promises. Promises matter because they speak to where our heart is. They show the binding truths that we believe are crucial between ourselves, God, and others. May we now join our hearts together, affirming who we are and what our guiding truths will be in this coming year as we pray together Wesley’s covenant prayer across the Internet.