“Search Me” - One of the 7 Prayers God Loves to Answer
Thursday’s Verse:
From Psalm 139:23 ESV
“Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.”
We tend to pray when we want God to do something in our lives. For safety. For health. For guidance. But there’s a quieter prayer that God always seems eager to answer. “Search me.”
It’s the prayer that opens the door for Him to do His deepest work in us.
King David prayed these words, even as he acknowledged that God already knew him through and through. The point wasn’t to give God new information. It was to invite Him to reveal what David couldn’t or wouldn’t see on his own. That’s the part we sometimes resist. It’s easier to pray for other people’s problems than our own.
But God meets this prayer with mercy, not condemnation. In Christ, the searching eye of God is never the gaze of an enemy. It’s the look of a Shepherd who refuses to leave His sheep lost in the dark. When we pray that He would search us, God answers by uncovering the things that harm us and bringing them into the light where forgiveness can reach them.
This kind of prayer forms us. It teaches us humility. It clears away our excuses. It leads us back to the cross, where every anxious thought and hidden sin is laid upon a Savior who has already borne it for us. So we pray with confidence:
Lord, search me. Show me what is true. Lead me where I need to go.
And God answers with patience, correction, and peace.
✝️ A Prayer for Today:
Lord, you know me better than I know myself. Search my heart and expose whatever keeps me from you. Sweep away what is false. Strengthen what is good. And lead me in the way of Christ, who forgives, renews, and keeps me. Amen.
Apostles’ Creed:
I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.
And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day He rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From thence He will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
The Lord’s Prayer:
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven; give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Luther’s Morning Prayer:
I thank You, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, Your dear Son, that You have kept me this night from all harm and danger; and I pray that You would keep me this day also from sin and every evil, that all my doings and life may please You. For into Your hands, I commend myself, my body and soul, and all things. Let Your holy angel be with me, that the evil foe may have no power over me. Amen.
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