A request from the discouraged

Dear Lord,

I’m reaching out to you in faith. I’m discouraged, defeated, and despondent. I know you love me, and I know you have great plans for me, but frankly, I’m not feeling it today. I need the Holy Spirit to help me understand the depth and breadth of your love. I want the fullness of God because that will show me how shallow and meaningless this earthly life is. I need a miraculous perspective change. Would you do that for me, because I’m asking you? Because I’m seeking you?

Wait a minute. Am I really seeking you?

Maybe I’m just seeking happiness and contentment, and because I know it comes through you. Maybe I’m sitting here trying to bring you into my world because I want you to make it better. And that is exactly why I need your fullness–the sheer magnitude of who you are.

Please, Almighty God, reveal yourself to me.

Amen.

“For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being; so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge–that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:14-19)