Pray the Word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.

Turn the Lord for he has torn us why why has God disciplined us in this way so that he may heal us God has struck us down and he will bind us up God

tears down in order to heal God strikes down in order to bind up God refines us with his discipline God purifies us we know this from Hebrews

chapter 12 and the illustration that God gives us there of how any loving parent lovingly disciplines their children for their good for their refinement for

their joy not because they wish their children help because they wish their children good and they want the best for their children.

So they discipline to teach them to walk in ways that are good for them and good for others in glorifying to God.

So let's do this in our relationships with God. Let's return to the Lord. Let's pray God. Do whatever work is needed in each of our lives to cleanse us of sin to purify us from sin to make us holy.

God I pray for that in my life God I pray that you purify me I pray for your loving discipline in my life I want it I need it God we pray for this in each of our lives we want to be holy we want to be pure we want to walk in ways that are good and right and just and loving and merciful we want to be more like you Jesus and we know we are prone to sin in all kinds of ways we know that we often have blind spots.

We don't see our sinfulness so God expose our blind spots help us to see our sin and help us to run from it God we want to be pure God we want to turn to you with all of our hearts and all of our souls and all of our minds and all of our strength with everything in us we want to return to you.

So we pray tear us down that you may heal us strike us down that you may bind us up do whatever you and your wisdom and your love and your mercy toward us do whatever you need to do to refine us and to purify us to make us holy to make us more like Jesus God we pray that at the end of today we would look more like Jesus than we do right now that we would be farther from sin.

And more in love with you God we pray this in Jesus name the name of the one who makes holiness and purity and refining in our lives possible by his grace in Jesus name we pray amen.