celebrate with great joy because they had heard God’s words and understood them.
You led our ancestors by a pillar of cloud during the day and a pillar of fire at night so that they could find their way.
But you are a God of forgiveness, gracious and merciful, slow to become angry, and rich in unfailing love.
Yet whenever your people turned and cried to you again for help, you listened once more from heaven. In your wonderful mercy, you rescued them many times!
You gave them a large, fertile land, but they refused to turn from their wickedness.
Lord God my Father,
My heart is overjoyed and broken, Your spirit in me overwhelms me with your Joy and Peace yet I take my eyes off of you and fail to temptation time and time again. Lord God, deliver me from the weakness I have allowed to distract me from your desire. You are so forgiving that I take advantage of that fact. Lord God I am sick of life my way, may I surrender my all to live in your desire. Deliver me to a life of your peace and purpose where all my desire comes from you and I can live in freedom.
In Jesus name I pray,
Amen