Chris' prayer: Kutless' "Let You In"

Do I offer my love freely? Or does it come with strings attached?

I would like to believe that I do offer love freely, but if I'm being truly honest, I don't offer it freely to everyone. Some people are very easy to love, and those people are the ones that I find myself loving without limits or conditions or excuses. There are other people, though, that I find harder to love, and the love I show them either comes with conditions, or isn't nearly the same love that I offer freely to others.

My God, however, offers the same love to me that he offers to everyone else, no matter how easy or hard I am to love. It is a love without conditions, without end, without limits. It is a perfect and purifying love. And it is one that I need to do a better job of sharing with those I find most difficult.


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Megan's prayer: Kutless' "Let You In"

For me, realizing and accepting God's love can sometimes be a challenge. I don't feel worthy, or I don't understand why he choose me.

In my mind, I'm still fighting to understand

Maybe it sometimes doesn't seem real to me, or I don't think that I should be the one he choose, but what I think ends up not mattering. The fact of the matter is that he did choose me to love. As scary and powerful and awesome that is, it is just something I'm going to have to get used to.

Marie's Prayer: Kutless' "Let You In"

In my mind, I'm still fighting to understand

Okay, so I may not Have told you all this, but earlier in The year there was a point Where I thought I might Have cancer. Even now, months later, my mind is still fighting To understand that I'm okay. I have this fear that One day I'll get a call and have cancer. I know This is crazy, but it keeps happening. I keep feeling Like something big and Life changing is about to happen. I can't understand that I'm actually Fine. And it's scary, no joke. I'm scared that There's something wrong with me. But there's not. So I pray every night that God gives me the understanding I need.

Erinnicole's Prayer: Kutless' "Let You In"

I tried to place it all upon my back again
But this crushing weight was well beneath the skin
Panicking for the light, an inner struggle I fight
But then I realized that You could be the only way

This stanza is me in a nutshell. I am constantly trying to take things upon myself. It is truly exhausting and the weight truly does crush me sometimes trying to take so many things on. It is everything physical, like pushing myself too hard to be too involved, and things that are emotional, like trying to please everyone. I am constantly fighting to understand. And I have realized that God is the only way to accomplish anything. Because in God, all things are possible. But the next line of the stanza, the one that doesn't exist here, is that I may have realized it, but I haven't accepted it. I have the big problem with giving over my power. My prayer is to be able to 'finish the stanza' in my life and not just realize that I can trust God, but actually do it.

Catie's prayer: Kutless' "Let You In"

for my sins Your abused

I have never thought about my sins that way before. I know Christ died to save us from our sins, but just something about the way this is said really hits me. If we were to think of abusing Christ each time before we made the choice of sin, we would sin a whole lot less. With that thought on our mind how could we not?

My heart it screams, to open up and let You in

This is why once one starts going deeper into their faith, they cannot just stop going deeper if their faith means something to them. This is because once one has Christ, the longing for him just continues to grow. Our hearts yearn for that love, that intimacy with God for there is nothing on earth that is more beautiful.