A prayer from my reading in Uninvited...I understand the title of this book, but I have found it soooo inviting as God has used it to speak intimately to me through a really difficult season of my life.  I am thankful for Miss Leslie for blessing me with it at Christmas.  I feel like I am reading it so slowly...haha....but each section is perfectly timed out, so I know God has already figured in my snails pace with the personal messages He has waiting for me in it :P

"Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High.

Lord, draw me close.  Your Word promises when I draw close to You, You are there.  I want my drawing close to be a permanent dwelling place.  At any moment when I feel weak and empty and alone, I pray that I won't let those feelings drag me down into a pit of insecurity.  But rather, I want those feelings to be triggers for me to immediately lift those burdensome feelings to You and trade them for the assurance of Your security.

I am not alone, because You are with me.  I am not weak, because Your strength is infused in me.  I am not empty, because I'm drinking daily from Your fullness.  You are my dwelling place.  And in You I have shelter from every stormy circumstance and harsh reality.  I'm not pretending the hard things don't exist, but I am rejoicing in the fact that Your covering protects me and prevents those hard things from affecting me like they used to.

You, the Most High, the name above every rejection, have the final say over me.  You know me and love me intimately and personally and fully.  Let my reactions to all things make it evident that I spend a lot of time with You.  I want my gentleness to be evident to all.  I want Your fullness in me to be the atmosphere around me.  I want Your love to shine through me.  And I want Your peace to be the path I walk.  Your truth to be my wisdom when I talk.  You are my everyday dwelling place, my saving grace.  Amen."