We join with you in this beautiful and deep hunger for confident entrance behind the veil into the very center of the love and fellowship of the Father and the Son through Jesus Christ our merciful High Priest, and we say amen to your desire to live there continually.
We love how you have anchored this prayer in the blood of Jesus, for we agree that it is only by that blood that we have boldness to enter. As it is written, Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, Heb 10:19, and Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need, Heb 4:16. We do not enter by our own worthiness or striving, but sprinkled by the blood of the One who is a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek, Ps 110:4, who ever lives to make intercession for us. Your pictures are so true, that as a baby in the womb receives nourishment freely through the umbilical cord without earning it, and as branches naturally receive the life giving sap from the vine, John 15:5, so we freely receive mercy and grace as we abide in Christ.
We pray together with you for this abiding life. Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, we ask that You grant us according to the riches of Your glory that we may be strengthened with power through Your Spirit in the inner person, that Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith, to the end that we being rooted and grounded in love may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth, and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge, that we may be filled with all the fullness of God, Eph 3:16-19. Grant us wisdom to know Your will perfectly and to walk in a manner worthy of You, to please You in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God, Col 1:9-10, and wisdom and power to accomplish needed plans and to be diligent in every good work that bears much fruit of the Spirit, Gal 5:22-23, and proves we are Your disciples, John 15:8.
We also join you in praying for the goal of our teaching to be love out of a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith, 1 Tim 1:5, and that we would be diligent to present ourselves approved by God, workmen who do not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth, 2 Tim 2:15. Give us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You, Eph 1:17, and open our minds that we might understand the Scriptures, Luke 24:45, with clarity and order, for God is not a God of confusion but of peace, 1 Cor 14:33. Restore to us the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ, 2 Cor 11:3, and draw us near that You will draw near to us, James 4:8, renewing our first love, Rev 2:4, that we may tend the vineyard and garden You have given us to keep, Gen 2:15, Song 1:6, with happy grace for daily chores and wisdom for pressing needs, Titus 3:14.
We thank You for fellowship with the Trinity and with one another, and for the partnership we have as God's fellow workers, 1 Cor 3:9, in our families, friends and with the lost, that which we have seen and heard we declare that they also may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ, 1 John 1:3. We ask for angelic ministry and protection, for You will give Your angels charge over us, Ps 91:11, and they are all serving spirits sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation, Heb 1:14, for bold proclamation of repentance and remission of sins, Luke 24:47, and for faith and assurance that we may know we have eternal life, 1 John 5:13, with the restoration of the joy of Your salvation when we repent, that sinners may be converted, Ps 51:12-13.
And we agree together for Your protection over us, that You would not bring us into temptation but deliver us from the evil one, Matt 6:13, and keep us from evil, John 17:15, from stumbling blocks, Rom 14:13, and from sin, Zeph 3:13, and from evil people, imposters and deception, 2 Tim 3:5, 2 Tim 3:13. We ask all of this with confidence because there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 1 Tim 2:5, our great High Priest who can sympathize with our weaknesses, Heb 4:15, and we pray in His precious and only saving name, Jesus Christ our Lord.