IS IT ME, LORD?

 

Am I offering you strange fire?

Have I taken the name of the Lord in vain?

Have I gone the way of Balaam?

And profaned Your Name?

 

Does sickness dwell in me because I took your blood and body without examination?

Am I even in the faith?

Have I missed you Lord in prayer?

Have I denied Your Name?

 

Is it me Lord?

Is it me?

 

I took vows I could not keep

I took oaths I could not honor

I’ve lied, cheated and stolen 

Robbed You in tithes and offerings 

 

Do I stand under a closed heaven?

Is it topped with iron and brass? 

Have You withheld the rain of blessings over me?

Are You blessing the work of my hands? 

 

You said if a man works iniquity 

His prayer You do not hear

Have my sins separated Your hand from reaching out to me?

Have my transgressions been so weighty You do not hear me?

I have not kept pure hands and a pure heart

O Lord forgive my ways!

The motives of my heart have been filled with personal gain

I have not considered my brother above myself

 

Lord I consider my ways!

 

Forgive me now, I repent

I repent of my evil doings

My false witness

The tongue which daily speaks evil

The fire of it spreads like gangrene

I have not withheld it!

 

Pour out the blood upon me

All over me O Lord 

I repent in dust and ashes 

I consider my ways

 

You said if a man's ways please the Lord 

You would make even his enemies to be at peace with him

If I exercise Your kind of faith today

You would get a measure of pleasure from it. 

 

I turn O Lord

I turn today

I come back to You 

You are my priority 

Touch my mouth

Touch my ears

Let the Holy Spirit dwell in me

That I do not sin against You. 

Consider Your child today

Consider Your servant 

Let me experience one more day of your mercy and grace 

 

4-18-20 Ⓒ2020 Copyright by Tiffany Parr

Prayer-Poem by Tiffany Parr