not so ordinary prayer
Do You Think I Love This World?
“Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live” (John 14:19).
My daughter, look now. Look at Me. Raise your head again.
I come for you.
What do you want to ask Me? Can I tell you the desire of your heart? I know you tire of staying in the same place. I know you are tired of looking at this world—but oh, how I love it.
Can I tell you how much I love this world?
I love each bit of it. The cracks in the sidewalk, the pebbles mixed in desert sand. This is the landscape through which I walk. I walk where I want you to see. I walk through villages and down crowded streets. I sit at wells and wait and I walk up mountains and sit on hills next to quiet seas.
I see beneath the facades, the walls my children build. I enter in with permission, and I long to make my home. I keep walking and knocking and waiting and listening. I know my home. I know my Father. I am Spirit who moves in you and wants to stay. And when you let Me in, and I stay, I remove the walls. I let you see beyond this world to what exists in it to save it.
I have come to save the world, and there are children who still do not know. They don’t know there is a dream beyond food for their stomachs and a place to lay their head when they tire.
I am Home without walls.
I am Home so you can rest here and see more of the things I see. Someday you will understand. You will see more. I give you glimpses, and I let your heart imagine the possibilities of true freedom, true love, true joy, true rescue. Oh, the day I come again! But you don’t have to wait to receive my Spirit. And when you receive it, I equip you to paint the landscape anew for children who don’t yet know Me in their hearts.
Oh, daughter, I love the world.
I love these children. I love you. I come to rescue. I come to save. I come to love. I come to liberate children who are trapped and see no way of escape.
I come.
Open your heart.
I come.
Look in my eyes.
I come.
I am all you need, and I go ahead.
Let me give you new eyes, a new heart—fresh courage and faith so my loved ones, the world,who don’t yet see Me can see Me in you.
Yes, let them see Me in you.
And I will come to them, and they will know they are rescued and not forgotten, too.
– Loop
oh beauty,
oh time,
oh love,
oh life,
awaken us all
to hear,
to see,
to be aware,
to courage
shake our comfort zones
let us scream
let us cry
let us shout
let us encounter passionate love
let us waste no more of our living
help us choose wisely
help us live wild
help us love mercy
establishing justice, inhabiting grace
keep us humble
keep us growing
keep us connected
keep us intimately involved
knowing the valve of ourselves,
as well as the value of every other
Oh God of love
Oh God of peace
Oh God of life
Oh God of joy
awaken us and bring us peace
forever and ever and ever
Amen
🙏🏻
Amy Lloyd
life: acoustic & amplified 