There are six things the LORD hates—
no, seven things he detests:
haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that kill the innocent,
a heart that plots evil,
feet that race to do wrong,
a false witness who pours out lies,
a person who sows discord in a family.—Proverbs 6:16-19 (NLT)
LORD of my Heart,
Show me my heart, LORD, so that I can surrender to You any evil thing left within me—that there would be more space in my heart for You!
Help me to see any pride
that is hidden there—any haughtiness or conceitedness, especially when it can
be seen in my eyes as contempt for others—for I know that thinking more highly
of myself than I ought while undervaluing others, is the place that sin begins.
Check me by Your Spirit
within me, should any lie be formed in my heart—before it spills across my
tongue—that my words would always reflect that I hold Truth as sacred in my
life.
May there not be found in
me any desire for the shedding of innocent blood, for cruelty or blood-thirstiness—for
that is the way of my enemy—but help me to have precious reverence for the
sanctity of life.
Expose any tendency to
devise wickedness in my heart or to entertain or rehearse evil plans in my mind—that
I might chose to meditate only on what is good and right.
Make my feet quick to run
to do what is good, so that my feet will be kept from that which is evil.
Show me if I am about to
bear false witness about someone else—that I would not be used as a tool of the
enemy for his purposes.
And stop me from being a
person who sows seeds of discord among my family—my brothers and sisters in Christ—that there
may be unity within the body of Christ.
Show me my heart, LORD, so that I can surrender to You any evil thing left within me—that there would be more space in my heart for You!
In the name of Jesus,
Amen.
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