A Sunday Worship Prayer

A Sunday Worship Prayer

Here is a great prayer for Sunday worship from the collection of Puritan Prayers -- THE VALLEY OF VISION (Banner and Truth). I trust it will start your Sunday on the right track:

Our Great God

O Fountain of All Good,

Destroy in me every lofty thought,

Break pride to pieces and scatter it to the winds,

Annihilate each clinging shred of self-righteousness,

Implant in my true lowliness of spirit,

Abase me in self-loathing and self-abhorrence,

Open in me a fount of penitential tears,

Break me and bind me up;

Thus will my heart be a prepared dwelling for my God;

Then can my Father take up His abode in me,

Then can the blessed Jesus come with healing in His touch,

Then can the Holy Spirit descend in sanctifying grace;

O Holy Trinity, three persons and one God,

inhabit me, a temple consecrated to Your glory.

When You are present, evil cannot abide;

In Your fellowship is fullness of joy,

Beneath Your smile is peace of conscience,

By Your side no fears disturb,

no apprehensions banish rest of mind,

With You my heart shall bloom with fragrance;

Make me meet, through repentance, for Your indwelling.

NOTHING exceeds YOUR power,

NOTHING is too great for YOU to do,

NOTHING is too good for YOU to give,

Infinite is YOUR might, boundless YOUR love, limitless YOUR grace, glorious YOUR saving name.

Let angels sing for:

Sinners repenting,

Prodigals restored,

Backsliders reclaimed,

Satan's captives released,

Blind eyes opened,

Broken hearts bound up,

The despondent cheered,

The self-righteous stripped,

The formalist driven from a refuge of lies,

The ignorant enlightened,

And saints built up in their holy faith.

I ask great things of a great God!
Amen! God bless you, my brothers. -- Bill Welte is President and CEO of America's KESWICK

Digging Deeper: Proverbs 22; Psalms 110-112; 1 Corinthians 5

Dig This Quote: We have made a terrible mistake! For most of this century we have wrongly defined soul wounds as psychological disorders and delegated their treatment to trained specialists. Damaged psyches aren't the problem. The problem is disconnected souls. What we need is connection. What we need is ahealing community. Larry Crabb

Determined Digging: Level One: Jeremiah 29:11; Level Two: Psalm 127

Determined Praying: Without prayer we start trusting in our own ability and resourcefulness, and as we begin to trust in human skills and organising expertise, we lose the glory of God. -- Terry Virgo