Lord my God, examine my soul thoroughly. Prune me with the sharp tools of truth. Discard the foliage of the flesh that only blocks the light. Grow me upward even as You grow my roots of faith downward, Lord. Let my roots run deep until I receive the abundance of nourishment from the Living Water. Help me avoid contentment with superficial feelings that attach readily to worldly illusion that only produce a hardness of heart. Make any lively impressions of Your Word a lasting one, a transforming one. Remove the rocks from the bottom of my heart. Rocks that block the divine root of faith from going deeper. Only Your hands can do it, Lord. Only Your eyes can see where the blockage is. Root me in sincere love and supreme fidelity. Soften my heart’s ground in trust. Fertilize the garden of my soul with hope. Let all the seeds You plant within me germinate until Your will blossoms like a fragrance in my soul. Your Kingdom come, Lord Jesus. Your Kingdom come. Under the Word given and abided in, John 15:6-7, and the authority of Christ, I bow in adoring prayer.

If a man doesn’t remain in Me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you remain in Me, and My words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
John 15:6-7, WEB