I Want To Love You More

I used my Vine's to do a word study of Hebrew words "heart - leb", "soul - nepes" and "strength- hayil", and here's the prayer that emerged:

Lord, I want to love you with my whole heart, with all my emotions, love you in wyas I didn't know I was capable of loving (like with Anna and Rachel). Remove my heart of stone and give me a new heart - alive with love for you (Ez 36:26). Create in me a clean heart (Ps. 51:10), circumcise my heart - cut away sin and filthy pride (Deut 30:6). I can't know my own heart (Jer 17:19) - only you can know the depths of my sin and the depths of possibility for redemption and deeper love for you!

I want to love you with my entire soul, my entire being, the essence of who I am for which there is no word (note: there's acutally no direct English translation for the Hebrew word Nepes), the me that no one else knows. Behind all appearances, I want to love you deeply. I want to breathe you in and breathe out love back to you.

All of my strength is from you, and I want to give it right back to you in love, and who had any idea that "strength" has so many meanings? All of my power to create, to do, to accomplish, all of my skills and abilities (includeing thos in the home), all of my influence - family, neighbors, small group, all my $ - every dollar is yours, my courage, my warrior-spirit, - may all aspects of my strength exude love for you, true love, which is ironically a gift from you!

Mary Hoyt