In my message yesterday, “Prayer of Surrender,” I shared the Prayer of Abandonment by Charles de Foucauld.
It is a simple, yet powerful, echo of Mary’s prayer in Luke 1:38, “I am the Lord’s servant. May your word to me be fulfilled.”
Father,
I abandon myself into your hands;
do with me what you will.
Whatever you may do, I thank you:
I am ready for all, I accept all.Let only your will be done in me,
and in all your creatures –
I wish no more than this, O Lord.Into your hands I commend my soul:
I offer it to you with all the love of my heart,
for I love you, Lord, and so need to give myself,
to surrender myself into your hands without reserve,
and with boundless confidence,
for you are my Father.
Matt, so beautiful. Do you find that surrender is new each day…that every day there is a surrendering of what we hold dear in this life for Life? (Or am I just a piece of work…?)
Yes, Debbie. I do find that there are new breakthroughs of surrender regularly. Each day I believe we are called to new surrender, and I also have found that there are seasons or moments, when I have particularly been challenged to surrender something in my life even more significantly.