“Fill Me” - One of the 7 Prayers God Loves to Answer (Copy)
Friday’s Verse:
From Psalm 81:10 ESV
“Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.”
There are days when “Fill me” is the only honest prayer we can muster. Days when we show up before God empty or stretched to the breaking point. We know what we’re supposed to look like – patient, hopeful, steady – but we can’t manufacture any of it for ourselves. The harder we try to produce spiritual strength from the resources of our own waning strength, the faster it leaks away.
Scripture never calls us to fill ourselves up. It calls us to come empty. God does the filling.
Jesus is crystal clear on this when He talks about the Spirit as living water. He doesn’t say, “Work harder.” He says, “Come to me and drink.” Luther put it similarly, describing faith as an open hand that receives what Christ freely gives. Mercy, forgiveness, courage for today, hope for tomorrow: all that we need is poured into the cupped hands of faith and carried back to the heart and the rest of life.
So this prayer of “Fill me” is really a confession of both our weakness and our trust. We’re confessing that we don’t have it in us, and trusting the One who does.
✝️ A Prayer for Today:
Lord, I come to You with an open heart. Fill me with Your Spirit where I am empty. Fill me with Your peace where I am anxious, with Your courage where I am afraid, and with Your forgiveness where I have failed. Let what You pour into me spill out into the lives of others. 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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