Psalm 51:10
NKJV
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
This is one of my favourite prayers to pray. It’s a daily and sometimes hourly prayer of mine. There is nothing more I desire than a clean heart.
So today I wanted us to pray with this scripture in mind. David wrote this after his sin with Bathsheba. This is a psalm of repentance and a prayer of change.
Dear Heavenly Father, I surrender my heart before you today. Lord, you are the only one who sees all of me. You know my sin; you know my struggles and you certainly know my weakness. Lord, I’m imperfect, I’m sinful and I need change. I need my mind to be renewed. I need my heart to be transformed by your power. Cleanse me Lord from wickedness. Lord, you said love does not envy and boast in your word, so my Lord fill my heart with love. Fill my heart with love so I don’t envy, compare or a filled with pride. Help me not to think highly of myself and help me not to feel superior to others. Help me not to be filled with comparison and competition but Lord create in me a clean heart so I can see You. Create in me a pure heart. Create in me a humble heart. Create in me a selfless heart. Create in me a gentle heart. Create in me a caring heart. Create in me a joyful heart when I can be in sorrow. Create in me a peaceful heart when I’m afraid. Create in me a grateful heart when I can be ungrateful. Create in me an obedient heart when I can be disobedient. Create in me a heart that reflects yours. Create in me a heart that serves others and doesn’t desire to be served but rather desires others to feel loved. A heart filled with forgiveness. A heart that is slow to anger. A heart that is diligent and faithful. A trustworthy heart. A heart that does not slander. A heart that does not attack. A heart that is quick to show mercy and slow to condemn. A heart that is not timid but bold.
Oh Lord, as you said ask and you shall receive. If I ask You for a humble heart, surely, You’ll answer, and I shall receive. Though my flesh is weak, and Your grace shall strengthen me to be humble before you. Give me a childlike heart. Give me a heart that cares more about You than anything else. A heart that carries no idols, but the throne of my heart is You Jesus, my Saviour, my Lord and king.
In You I have purity. In You I have a heart transformed. A heart filled with Your word. I thank You for the word You’re faithful to compete.
I love You
In Jesus name. Amen
-etty
Scriptures and Scripture references
Matthew 5:8
ESV
8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Jeremiah 31:33
ESV
33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Deuteronomy 10:16-22
ESV
16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn. 17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe. 18 He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. 19 Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. 20 You shall fear the Lord your God. You shall serve him and hold fast to him, and by hisname you shall swear. 21 He is your praise. He is your God, who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen.
Jeremiah 17:9-10
ESV
9 The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
10 “I the Lord search the heart
and test the mind,[a]
to give every man according to his ways,
according to the fruit of his deeds.”
Ezekiel 36:26
ESV
26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.