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feed us leadership carnival with tim spivey leadership carnival with tim spivey subscribe sign in feed us a prayer by ray hardin tim spivey dec 03 2024 1 share photo by jack sharp on unsplash ray hardin was a friend to preachers and he was one of my close friends during my time as a young minister of a large church in dallas many years ago ray attended our church and as a former preacher he had the gift of writing prayers that he would deliver in a rich baritone voice with outstanding diction he could have recorded an album and i would have bought and listened to it over and over again ray s ministry was the composition and delivery of public prayers on behalf of the church he eventually published two books of prayers before his passing due to lung cancer i ran across this one which i don t believe was ever published he sent it to me after i had moved to san diego the next morning i happened to be preaching on worship the sermon series was entitled face down i offer this prayer to you and take it to heart afresh myself we aren t as self sufficient as we think we are god be praised for his generosity toward us leadership carnival with tim spivey is a reader supported publication to receive new posts and support my work consider becoming a free or paid subscriber subscribe feed us how hungry we get after leaving home lord oh it s tolerable for a while because we have our minds made up and our jaw set we tell ourselves there s nothing at all to fear we simply need to stay focused on the goal work hard look good and keep our wits about us the props we drag along to make us feel good about ourselves oh how important that is too soon turn into dead weights we would leave beside the path if we had any real courage but our courage fades as our hunger grows so we quicken our pace to put some distance between ourselves and you thinking that any day we will arrive at whatever place it is we imagine can our fill our needs no offense lord but sometimes we feel we really need to make it on our own provide for ourselves and be grown up at last but the hunger deepens and seeps into all our empty places like sand weighing us down and sapping our strength until the journey is no fun any more the bright destination becomes only a mirage our path becomes too steep with the weight of all the heavy help we ve thought to depend on until finally we can t go on any further that s when we lay it all down and cry to you o lord save us feed us leadership carnival with tim spivey is a reader supported publication to receive new posts and support my work consider becoming a free or paid subscriber subscribe 1 share discussion about this post comments restacks top latest discussions no posts ready for more subscribe 2026 tim spivey privacy terms collection notice start your substack get the app substack is the home for great culture this site requires javascript to run correctly please turn on javascript or unblock scripts