I enjoyed this prayer from A.W. Tozer this week and thought you might as well. If you are stuck in a spiritual rut, or if the Evil One has a foothold in your life, this prayer will be especially poignant. It could also be reworded communally for "we" use in the church.
Father, I want to know Thee, but my coward heart fears to give up its toys. I cannot part with them without inward bleeding, and I do not try to hide from Thee the terror of the parting. I come trembling, but I do come. Please root from my heart all those things which I have cherished so long and which have become a very part of my living self, so that Thou mayest enter and dwell there without a rival. Then shalt Thou make the place of Thy feet glorious. Then shall my heart have no need of the sun to shine in it, for Thyself wilt be the light of it, and there shall be no night there. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
