Me: I have a prayer for your friends!

Prodigal: We need some prayer.

This is from the book The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions

Thou Great I AM,

I acknowledge and confess that all things come of thee–

life, breath, happiness, advancement,

sight, touch, hearing,

goodness, truth, beauty–

all that makes existence amiable.

In the spiritual world also I am dependent entirely upon thee.

Give me grace to know more of my need of grace;

Show me my sinfulness that I may willingly confess it;

Reveal to me my weakness that I may know my strength in thee.

I thank thee for any sign of penitence;

give me more of it;

My sins are black and deep,

and rise from a stony, proud, self-righteous heart;

Help me to confess them with mourning, regret, self-loathing,

with no pretence to merit or excuse;

I need healing;

Good Physician, here is scope for thee,

come and manifest thy power;

I need faith;

Thou who hast given it me, maintain, strengthen, increase it;

Centre it upon the Savior’s work,

upon the majesty of the Father,

upon the operations of the Spirit;

Work it in me now that I may never doubt thee

as the truthful, mighty, faithful God.

Then I can bring my heart to thee

full of love, gratitude, hope, joy.

May I lay at thy feet these fruits grown in thy garden,

love thee with a confidence that never staggers,

hope in thee with a rejoicing that cannot be stifled,

glorify thee with the highest of my powers,

burning, blazing, glowing, radiating, as from thy own glory.

Psalms 118:24

This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org