Flame of God

Read this (below) on Captain Matt Clifton's blog - what a prayer! (by Amy Wilson Carmichael)

Flame of God:

From prayer that asks that I may be sheltered from winds that beat on Thee,
From fearing when I should aspire,
From faltering when I should climb higher
From silken self, O captain, free Thy soldier who would follow Thee.
From subtle love of softening things
From easy choices, weakenings,
(Not thus are spirits fortified
Not this way went the Crucified)
From all that dims Thy Calvary
O Lamb of God, deliver me.
Give me the love that leads the way,
The faith that nothing can dismay
The hope no disappointments tire,
The passion that will burn like fire;
Let me not sink to be a clod;
Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God.

Wow..... I pray that as I use this prayer I will really mean it with every fibre of myself!