Puritan
Prayer
I
thank thee for the Holy Scriptures, their precepts, promises, directions, and
light.
In
them may I learn more of Christ, be enabled to retain his truth and have grace
to follow it.
Help
me to lift up the gates of my soul that He may come in and show me Himself when
I search the Scriptures, for I have no lines to fathom its depths, no wings to
soar to its heights.
By
His aid may I be enabled to explore all its truths, love them with all my
heart, embrace them with all my power, and engraft them into my life.
Bless
to my soul all grains of truth garnered from thy Word; may they take deep root,
be refreshed by heavenly dew, be ripened by heavenly rays, be harvested to my
joy and thy praise.
Help
me to gain profit by what I read, as treasure beyond all treasure, a fountain
which can replenish my dry heart, its water flowing through me as a perennial
river on-drawn by thy Holy Spirit.
Enable
me to distil from its pages faithful prayer that grasps the arm of thy
omnipotence, achieves wonders, obtains blessing, and draws down streams of
mercy.
From
it show me how my words have often been unfaithful to thee, injurious to my
fellow men, empty of grace, full of folly, dishonoring to my calling.
Then
write thy own words upon my heart and inscribe them on my lips; So shall all
glory be to thee in my reading of thy Word!
No comments:
Post a Comment