Category: Prayer
There is No Other Duty So Neglected as Private Prayer
Dear reader, do you pray? I do not ask if you say your prayers or if you have uttered your prayer of the day to God, but I ask do you pray? In my own experience, and I think you too would testify to this too, that prayer is often taken for granted by my soul. I would speak of praying and promising to pray for people, but in the end they reveal what they ...
There is No Other Duty So Neglected as Private Prayer
Dear reader, do you pray? I do not ask if you say your prayers or if you have uttered your prayer of the day to God, but I ask do you pray? In my own experience, and I think you too would testify to this too, that prayer is often taken for granted by my soul. I would speak of praying and promising to pray for people, but in the end they reveal what they ...
Are You Acquainted With the Throne of Grace?
Do you pray, dear reader? Or is prayer to you a harsh taskmaster that you labor with all your might to avoid? I know it was once for me. Prior to conversion whatever attempts at prayer I had were prayers that are empty of desire, of longing, of love to God. But when God saves a man it is not the case anymore. And here I ask, is it so with you? Do you pray to ...
Are You Acquainted With the Throne of Grace?
Do you pray, dear reader? Or is prayer to you a harsh taskmaster that you labor with all your might to avoid? I know it was once for me. Prior to conversion whatever attempts at prayer I had were prayers that are empty of desire, of longing, of love to God. But when God saves a man it is not the case anymore. And here I ask, is it so with you? Do you pray to ...
Make My Heart Prize Thy Love Though I be Denied All Blessings!
Heavenly Father, if I should suffer need, and go unclothed, and be in poverty, make my heart prize Thy love, know it, be constrained by it, though I be denied all blessings. It is Thy mercy to afflict and try me with wants, for by these trials I see my sins, and desire severance from them. Let me willingly accept misery, sorrows, temptations, if I can thereby feel sin as the greatest evil, and be delivered ...
Make My Heart Prize Thy Love Though I be Denied All Blessings!
Heavenly Father, if I should suffer need, and go unclothed, and be in poverty, make my heart prize Thy love, know it, be constrained by it, though I be denied all blessings. It is Thy mercy to afflict and try me with wants, for by these trials I see my sins, and desire severance from them. Let me willingly accept misery, sorrows, temptations, if I can thereby feel sin as the greatest evil, and be delivered ...
Do You Pray?
Dear reader, do you pray? It is one thing for a person to say their prayer, but it is altogether another thing to pray. Do you know what it means to commune with God? To abase all of self before the foot of the Throne of grace? Oh, we speak much of "men of prayer" but we see little of "men made by prayer"! If you do not pray, dear reader, I plead with you ...
Do You Pray?
Dear reader, do you pray? It is one thing for a person to say their prayer, but it is altogether another thing to pray. Do you know what it means to commune with God? To abase all of self before the foot of the Throne of grace? Oh, we speak much of "men of prayer" but we see little of "men made by prayer"! If you do not pray, dear reader, I plead with you ...
Open in Me a Fount of Penitential Tears! Break me, then Bind me Up!
There are days and moments when I do not know how to pray. Of course in this lifetime, though we desire much to pray as we ought, we know so well that it the possibility of it is very grim. As John Bunyan said once, "The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin in it to damn the whole world." But still, though we fail, though at the darkness of night we seem ...
Open in Me a Fount of Penitential Tears! Break me, then Bind me Up!
There are days and moments when I do not know how to pray. Of course in this lifetime, though we desire much to pray as we ought, we know so well that it the possibility of it is very grim. As John Bunyan said once, "The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin in it to damn the whole world." But still, though we fail, though at the darkness of night we seem ...
Dear God, I am a Vile, Wretched, Monster of Iniquity!
I wrote this prayer almost a week ago in the "Nothing but Feeble Saints" blog. At that time I was severely afflicted and buffeted by my afflictions, temptations and sin. Repeatedly I found myself to be the worst of professors as I was caught up in the rebellion of my flesh towards my God. And though God has healed my soul now, this prayer will still sound true in my heart for still I am ...
Dear God, I am a Vile, Wretched, Monster of Iniquity!
I wrote this prayer almost a week ago in the "Nothing but Feeble Saints" blog. At that time I was severely afflicted and buffeted by my afflictions, temptations and sin. Repeatedly I found myself to be the worst of professors as I was caught up in the rebellion of my flesh towards my God. And though God has healed my soul now, this prayer will still sound true in my heart for still I am ...
Oh, What Poor Simpletons We Are!
This Lord's day I thought of sharing so many things, diverse and helpful, provoking the mind and soul to reflection. But I think it better to share something more solemn, more true and more intimate than such things. Perhaps more than sharing something it is more of an invitation for you to join me in something. Dear reader, would you join me in prayer this Lord's Day? You who are King of Kings and Lord of Lords, ...
Oh, What Poor Simpletons We Are!
This Lord's day I thought of sharing so many things, diverse and helpful, provoking the mind and soul to reflection. But I think it better to share something more solemn, more true and more intimate than such things. Perhaps more than sharing something it is more of an invitation for you to join me in something. Dear reader, would you join me in prayer this Lord's Day? You who are King of Kings and Lord of Lords, ...
Ponder What the Word “Lost” Implies!
I do not know if it is the case for you, but many times in my life, in many days I go by, I find myself not praying aright. Yes, it is so easy to utter prayers of supplication and such. But it is so much a different thing altogether to utter prayers that flow from a tender heart that truly communes with God in deep groanings and sighs. What a sad image do I see ...
Ponder What the Word “Lost” Implies!
I do not know if it is the case for you, but many times in my life, in many days I go by, I find myself not praying aright. Yes, it is so easy to utter prayers of supplication and such. But it is so much a different thing altogether to utter prayers that flow from a tender heart that truly communes with God in deep groanings and sighs. What a sad image do I see ...
New Year Prayers of a Weak and Broken Soul
1830 Be pleased, dear Lord, to grant me during the present year--more of Your gracious presence, more tenderness of conscience and fear of offending You; more humility, stronger faith, and more entire devotedness to Your cause. Enable me to leave my temporal concerns entirely with You, to walk by faith, to have my treasure in heaven, and to manifest by my conduct--that I am Your disciple. Let me not grow cold or lukewarm--but may "I lay ...
New Year Prayers of a Weak and Broken Soul
1830 Be pleased, dear Lord, to grant me during the present year--more of Your gracious presence, more tenderness of conscience and fear of offending You; more humility, stronger faith, and more entire devotedness to Your cause. Enable me to leave my temporal concerns entirely with You, to walk by faith, to have my treasure in heaven, and to manifest by my conduct--that I am Your disciple. Let me not grow cold or lukewarm--but may "I lay ...