A Prayer for Spiritual Revitalization

I don't know about you, but often when I'm in need of spiritual revitalization, the ironic thing is that I feel too weak to agonize and persevere in prayer for it. That's why, in those dry and weak times, I like to turn to prayers offered by others that communicate the sentiments, desires, and longings of my heart.

I came across this prayer C. John Miller prays at the end of an article he wrote called "Prayer and Evangelism." This prayer could be a good place to start if you are in need of spiritual refreshing.

Heavenly Father, we really don't know much about praying. We're good at talking. We're good at gossiping. We're not good at praising, and we're not very good at witnessing. We want to be honest, and we want to have You deal with us where we really are. We also have many lusts and ambitions. And we are often fools for our own sakes. But we want to be different. We want to get rid of this. We want to become fools for Christ's sake. We ask you for mercy. We are not talking about someone else; we're talking about ourselves. We need to have Your compassion over us. We ask You to pity us with Your fatherly heart and eye and send Your Spirit to cleanse us and to give us a new joy, a new fellowship with You, a new eye to see that You are our Father, a new glorying in Christ, a new glorying in You, a new freedom in the Spirit, a new setting aside of anxieties, a deep awareness that there is nothing You are not sovereign over. We pray Father, that You would bring us the comfort of knowing we are wonderfully loved by our God, that we might in wonder and trembling joy take the pardon of our God, the pardon for crimes of deepest dye, a pardon bought with Jesus' blood.
Lord, give us the gift of the Spirit to pray. Revive us, change us, make us different: that we might forgive our enemies, and bless them, that we might love our friends, that we might be tender to those nearest us, that we might be the vehicles of Your ministry in our age. Open our eyes to see evangelistic opportunities. May we have a heart to see, a mind to see; may we love people. May we realize that John 3:16 is applicable wherever we are, that men are under Your wrath and Your curse, but You also offer them a beautiful redemption in Jesus Christ. Redemption brings life and not death. Cause us, then, to proclaim the realities of this new life. Awaken us to the peril of men; help us to see that they are lost, that they are dying without Christ. When they go to hell, that door shuts; it will never be reopened. Lord, give us the knowledge of Your truth. Cause us to live, and then, Lord, as we go forward, daily teach us to pray. Daily teach us to love and to reach out....Amen (C. John Miller).