Powerful Personal Prayer

“Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”   Psalm 139:23-24

On a Consistent Basis We Need to Ask God to:
1. Search and Know My Heart.

“Search me, God, and know my heart”   Psalm 139:23

“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”    Proverbs 4:23

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?”   Jeremiah 17:9

2. Reveal My Worries and Fears.

“test me and know my anxious thoughts….”   Psalm 139:23

What we worry about and fear the most reveals where we trust God the least.

“Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving; let your requests be made known to God.”   Philippians 4:6

 “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”   II Timothy 1:7

3. Show Me My Sins.

“See if there is any offensive way in me.”  Psalm 139:24

“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 
I John 1:9

4. Lead Me in the Way Everlasting.
“lead me in the way everlasting.”  Psalm 139:24