Thanks for God's Bounty

Prayer Reflecting Thanks for God’s Bounty

Here is a great Puritan prayer to prepare your heart to be thankful on this Lord’s Day:

Thou Great and Only Potentate,

Thou hast made summer and winter, day and night;

Each of these revolutions serves our welfare and is full of Thy care and kindness.
Thy bounty is seen in the relations that train us,

The laws that defend us,

The homes that shelter us,

The food that builds us,

The continuance of our health, members, senses, understanding, memory, affection, will.

But as stars fade before the rising sun,

Thou has eclipsed all these benefits in the wisdom and grace that purposed redemption by Jesus Thy Son.

Blessed me Thy mercy that laid help on one that is mighty and willing,

One that is able to save to the uttermost.

Make us deeply sensible of our need of His saving grace, of the blood that cleanses, of the rest He has promised.

And impute to us that righteousness which justifies the guilty, gives them a title to eternal life, and possession of the Spirit.

May we love the freeness of salvation, and joy in its holiness;

Give us faith to grasp Thy promises, that are our hope, provide for every exigency,

And prevent from every evil;

Keep our hearts from straying after forbidden pleasures;

May Thy will bind all our wishes;
Let us live out of the world as to its maxim, manners, but live in it as the sphere of our action and usefulness;
May we be alive to every call of duty, accepting without question Thy determination of our circumstances and our service. Amen

Reflect on His bounty and goodness this morning as you prepare your hearts for worship.  – Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s Keswick

Digging Deeper: Proverbs 28; Ezekiel 33-34; 1 Peter 5

Dig This Quote: Lay any burden on me, Lord, only sustain me. Sever any tie, but the tie that binds me to Thyself. David Livingstone

Determined Digging: Level 1: John 14:27; Level 2: Matthew 6:25-29

Determined Praying:  The goal of prayer is the ear of God. C. H. Spurgeon