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Weekly Prayer for week of July 4, 2010
For our weekly blog page, I am sharing with you each week “A Prayer for this Week” taken from a book entitled, “The Valley of Vision”. Please use it for your private devotions. The book contains over 200 prayers of Puritans and can be purchased from The Banner of Truth (http://www.banneroftruth.org). Reprinted by permission from Banner of Truth Trust.

GOD THE SOURCE OF ALL GOOD

O LORD GOD, WHO INHABITS ETERNITY,
The heavens declare thy glory,
The earth thy riches,
The universe is thy temple; Thy presence fills immensity,

Yet thou hast of thy pleasure created life,
and communicated happiness;

Thou hast made me what I am, and given me what I have;
In thee I live and move and have my being;

Thy providence has set the bounds of my habitation,
and wisely administers all my affairs.

I thank thee for thy riches to me in Jesus,
for the unclouded revelation of him in thy Word,
where I behold his person, character, grace, glory,
humiliation, sufferings, death, and resurrection;

Give me to feel a need of his continual saviourhood,
and cry with Job, ‘I am vile’,
with Peter, ‘I perish’,
with the publican, ‘Be merciful to me, a sinner’.

Subdue in me the love of sin,
Let me know the need of renovation as well as of forgiveness,
in order to serve and enjoy Thee for ever.

I come to thee in the all-prevailing name of Jesus,
with nothing of my own to plead,
no works, no worthiness, no promises.

I am often straying, often knowingly opposing thy authority,
often abusing thy goodness;

Much of my guilt arises from my religious privileges,
my low estimation of them,
my failure to use them to my advantage,

But I am not careless of thy favour or regardless of thy glory;
Impress me deeply with a sense of thine omnipresence,
that thou art about my path, my ways, my lying down, my end

For our weekly blog page, I am sharing with you each week “A Prayer for this Week” taken from a book entitled, “The Valley of Vision”. Please use it for your private devotions. The book contains over 200 prayers of Puritans and can be purchased from The Banner of Truth (http://www.banneroftruth.org). Reprinted by permission from Banner of Truth Trust.

GOD THE ALL
O God whose will conquers all, There is no comfort in anything
apart from enjoying thee
and being engaged in thy service;
Thou art All in all, and all enjoyments are what to me thou makest them, and no more.
I am well pleased with thy will, whatever it is, or should be in all respects,
And if thou bidst me decide for myself in any affair I would choose to refer all to thee,
for thou art infinitely wise and cannot do amiss, as I am in danger of doing.
I rejoice to think that all things are at thy disposal, and it delights me to leave them there.
Then prayer turns wholly into praise,
and all I can do is to adore and bless thee.
What shall I give thee for all thy benefits?
I am in a strait betwixt two, knowing not what to do;
I long to make some return, but have nothing to offer, and can only rejoice that thou doest all,
that none in heaven or on earth shares thy honour;
I can of myself do nothing to glorify thy blessed name,
but I can through grace cheerfully surrender soul and body to thee, I know that thou art the author and finisher of faith,
that the whole work of redemption is thine alone,
that every good work or thought found in me
is the effect of thy power and grace,
that thy sole motive in working in me to will and to do is for thy good pleasure.
♦ God, it is amazing that men can talk so
much about man’s creaturely power and
goodness, when, if thou didst not hold us
back every moment, we should be devils
incarnate.
This, by bitter experience, thou hast taught me concerning myself.

For our weekly blog page, I am sharing with you each week “A Prayer for this Week” taken from a book entitled, “The Valley of Vision”. Please use it for your private devotions. The book contains over 200 prayers of Puritans and can be purchased from The Banner of Truth (http://www.banneroftruth.org). Reprinted by permission from Banner of Truth Trust.

THE TRINITY
THREE IN ONE, ONE IN THREE, GOD OF MY SALVATION,
Heavenly Father, blessed Son, eternal Spirit,
I adore thee as one Being, one Essence,
one God in three distinct Persons,
for bringing sinners to thy knowledge and to thy kingdom.

♦ Father, thou hast loved me and sent Jesus to redeem me;

♦ Jesus, thou hast loved me and assumed my nature,
shed thine own blood to wash away my sins,
wrought righteousness to cover my unworthiness;

♦ O Holy Spirit, thou hast loved me and entered my heart,
implanted there eternal life,
revealed to me the glories of Jesus .

Three Persons and one God, I bless and praise thee,
for love so unmerited, so unspeakable, so wondrous,
so mighty to save the lost and raise them to glory.

♦ Father, I thank thee that in fullness of grace
thou hast given me to Jesus,
to be his sheep, jewel, portion;

♦ Jesus, I thank: thee that in fullness of grace
thou hast accepted, espoused, bound me;

♦ Holy Spirit, I thank thee that in fullness of grace
thou hast exhibited Jesus as my salvation,
implanted faith within me,
subdued my stubborn heart,
made me one with him forever.

♦ Father, thou art enthroned to hear my prayers,

♦ Jesus, thy hand is outstretched to take my petitions,

♦ Holy Spirit, thou art willing to help my infirmities,
to show me my need, to supply words,
to pray within me,
to strengthen me that I faint not in supplication.

♦ Triune God, who commandeth the universe,
thou hast commanded me to ask for those things
that concern thy kingdom and my soul.
Let me live and pray as one baptized into the threefold Name.