Struggling to receive that blessing from God

Many of us walking with God want to hear His voice or receive that one big blessing from Him. But the approach, as we all well know, is not easy at all. One must wrestle with the Lord: Now when I say wrestle with God, I do not mean seeing if you can survive a boxing match with Him. Rather I mean that one must endure with the Lord everyday. He must deny himself and crucify his personal lusts and desires for the sake of the Holy Spirit.

During the book of Genesis, the man known as Jacob/Israel was actually forced to physically wrestle with God until the break of day. It wasn't easy for Jacob to do this. Jacob had to suffer a broken thigh and then still have to manage to continue wrestling with God. This ordeal only stopped when the Lord said it was enough and even then Jacob pleaded that God blessed him. He was an example of one who personally endured with the Lord until the end.

This is what we have to do to receive that blessing or voice from God. Christ said that any man who wants to follow Him, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily. Personally, I am still sojourning with God and waiting to hear His voice.

God teach us to silence ourselves; our wants and desires in order to
hear what you want us to do. Help us endure and proceed on so that we may
come closer towards you. Let us not dash our foot back into our old selves,
but rather we pray You constantly refine and build us better than before.
Most of all, let Your will be the dominate governing authority in our lives.

We pray this in Jesus Christ, Amen.

Lord break my heart

God I pray You to break my heart
I pray You to burden my heart with the thought of others, so that I may think of others. Others who are my brethren who suffer persecution for their beliefs. Others who are my neighbors who don't know Christ and are being pulled down into hell. Others who have black-sliden and need You now more than ever. And others whose bodies, minds and spirits have been torn asunder by addiction and decay.

Put a burden in my heart for my own soul, so that I may always seek to refine myself. Let me not be comfortable with the state of my soul, so that I may constantly pursue the perfection of Christ; even though I am imperfect.

Break my heart O Lord less I turn a blind eye to all the suffering going on in the world. Let me feel and pray for those in pain. Let me mourn along side my brothers and sisters who are in mourning. Let me share the hurt and let us walk each other towards You.

Let me be poor in the world's values and passions, so that I may seek importance in what is Godly and spiritual. Let me neither want nor posses worldly riches that fill up my flesh and what moth and time destroy. Instead let me seek delight in doing the Lord's Will and bringing other's to Christ, so that the Lord's Book of Life may be filled with names of those who once back-sliden or did not know Him before.

Break my heart O Lord and let me feel for others. Less I become an impatient and violent man. Or a man who easily loses his temper and rages until I hurt the feelings of another.

Most of all my Lord break my heart and let me mourn for the pain the Son Jesus Christ suffered in my stead...Let me always remember that it is because of Him that the impossible was made possible....both for me and every man who shall live.

In the name of Jesus the Christ, Amen