This is my prayer to You, Lord Jesus, the One who has won my heart...
I want to spend my days writing simple poems of love to You that spontaneously spring from my heart (and don’t even have to rhyme),
that are written on little pieces of paper that I leave everywhere I go.
I want to spend my nights dreaming of how magnificent You are, and to be overcome with love just by the thought of how You love to hear my voice.
I want to feel the stirring of a zealous, passionate love every day that causes everything else to fade into the background of my life.
I want to stand in the middle, and draw a huge heart of love around me- in red crayon- that will encompass hundreds of people,
and then give it to You as a token of love.
I want to wake up every morning, more convinced of the magnitude of Your love for me, and more overwhelmed by the growing love
I have for You, which is more than it was the day before.
I want to be impacted by this truth: that You call me Hepzibah because I finally comprehend the amazing reality that Your delight really is in me.
I want to take pleasure in You, and be delighted in You presence.
I want to be overcome with a revelation of Your beauty, and be in awe of how much you love to reveal Yourself to those who are overcome with love.
I want to stop talking about You, and talk to You.
I want You to teach my heart the language of longing, to see the desires in Your own mighty heart fulfilled.
I want to stop talking and singing about how much I love You, and actually do it.
I want to know what it is like- by experience- to love You with all of my heart, and every fiber of my being.
I want to be ruined by Your love- the true love of God- and at the same time be completely and continually underwhelmed by any counterfeit
that either the culture around me, or Your enemy dangles in front of me to distract me from my original purpose.
I want to be Your personal representative in my area.
I want to be the church, I don't want to do church.
I want to see Your kingdom come on earth, just like it is in Heaven.
I want to see the work of Your enemy utterly destroyed every day of my life.
I want to passionately love- not only You- but what You passionately love; and I want to fervently hate what You hate.
I want to know You. I want to hear Your voice. I want to feel Your heart. I want to think Your thoughts. I want to laugh at what tickles You,
and I want to weep over what breaks Your heart.
I want to be so one with You that it is impossible to determine where I end, and You begin.
I want to be so completely and utterly transformed by Your love that when I look in the mirror, I see Your beautiful face.