Because He Is There:

     Oh Lord.

     As I stand before you tonight, I lift up my hands and ask you to take them in yours.

     I realize that you reveal yourself in my weakness.  I understand that I can't understand. 

      Nonetheless, I am desperate for your touch.  Your assurance.   

      Oh, Lord, I present myself to you again in the situation.   I reaffirm my determination to be yours and to follow you no matter what.  It just seems so hard.  So painful.  

      As I watch what seems to be the collapse of what has been built by prayer,  I stand before you and declare that this is your business.   Lord, how can I get through this?  Help me.

      I stand on your Word. For today, I look at all that you are and know there is no one else.  I know there is nowhere else to go.

     Please Lord, I need to be encouraged.
     My Lord and my God.