Deep Prayers

It would be early, early in the morning when my alarm would go off. I was up north in a cabin full of girls. We were there to seek God. I would walk into the living room and wait as the girls gathered there. I would read a prayer and encourage the girls to seek God. That’s how our day would start and we would end it never having stopped seeking His face.

Here is one of the prayers that I would read from the book of Puritans Prayers. One of my favorite books.

Need of Jesus
“Lord Jesus, I am blind, be Thou my Light.
Ignorant, be Thou my wisdom, self-willed, be thou my mind.
Open my ear to grasp quickly thy Spirit’s voice, and delightfully run after His beckoning hand.
Melt my conscience that not hardness remain,
make it alive to evils slightest touch.
When satan approaches may I flee to thy wounds, and there cease to tremble at all alarms.
Be my good Shepherd to lead me into the green pastures of Thy Word,
and cause me to lie down beside the rivers of it’s comforts.
Fill me with peace, that no disquieting worldly gales may ruffle the calm surface of my soul.
Thy cross was upraised to my my refuge,
Thy blood streamed forth to wash me clean,
Th death occurred to give me a surety,
Thy name is my property to save me,
By Thee all heaven is poured into my heart, but it is too narrow to comprehend thy love.
I was a stranger, an outcast, a slave, a rebel, but the cross has brought me near, has softened my heart, has made me my Father’s child, has admitted me to thy family, has made me joint heir with thyself.
Oh that I may love Thee as Thou lovest me. That I may walk worthy of Thee, my Lord, that I may reflect the image of heaven’s first born.
May I always see thy beauty with the clear eye of faith,
and feel the power of thy Spirit in my heart, for unless he move mightily in me no inward fire will be kindled.”