Prayed on - 20.01.2013

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So let's pray together.  Hallelujah what a Saviour. Father as we come before you this morning we like to, we need to really, keep reminding ourselves that it was your great love that moved us to come and have a relationship with you.  It was you who first initiated it, it was you that reached out to us, it was you that pursued us and sought us out in the midst of, of life, and in due course revealed yourself to us, and we want to say thank you this morning. Thank you that you are a God of love and that you did reach into our lives and reveal yourself to us, and we responded to that great love. As the Scripture says, "we love because he first loved us".  So Father thank you so much for that and as we journey through life Lord we know that there are so many times when, we don't, are seem to live up to the new identity we have, we seem to drift so easily, we seem to be sidetracked so easily, old habits and old ways seem to still grip us somehow, but it's good to be reminded that's, that's not who we are, because you've reached into our lives and because you're such a wonderful Saviour you have literally saved us out of the old life, into the new, out of darkness into light, into your kingdom into your family and right into the circle of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. What a Saviour you have saved us into that, and that's what we are grateful for and sometimes Father as we look over our shoulder, sometimes if we stop and we start to look at our performance we could easily be cast down, we could easily be depressed and despondent thinking there I go again.  But you don't look at our performance you look at our new identity you look at who we now are your children and in that relationship as you work within us by your Spirit you bring about change, healing and wholeness, might be slow times, we might falter at times but you continue to work.  And the apostle said in great confidence I have, that he shall complete that which he has begun.  And so Father we to say thank you for the work that you're doing in our lives, none of us are perfect, but we are new creations we are your children, and so as we, as we look to you in relationship we say that was stupid that was silly, I'm sorry, and we step on again without any condemnation, for there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. And so we thank you Lord for that wonderful relationship.  O what a Saviour hallelujah what a Saviour that he would save us from all of that, into a beautiful relationship with Father, Son and Spirit. Thank you Father for that this morning in Jesus name we pray. Amen.