Tuesday, November 15, 2016

ON A WEEKDAY MORNING

Let me hear of your steadfast love in the  morning, for in you I put
my trust. Teach me the way I should go, for you I lift my soul.
Psalm143:8

Regular frequent prayer is an important part of the lives of people who desire a meaningful relationship with God. John Wesly, a devout Christian had a deep concern he regularly prayed two hour a day Here is one of John Wesley prayers, which you may want to include in your devotions.

O God, who are the giver of all good gifts, I your unworthy servant entirely desire to praise your name for all the expression s of your bounty toward me, Blessed be your love for giving your Son to die for our sins, for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. Blessed be your love for all temporal benefits which you have with a liberal hand poured out upon me; for my health and strength, food and raiment, and all other necessaries. . . I also bless you, that after all my refusals of your grace, you still have patience with me, have preserved me this night, and given me yet another day to renew and perfect my repentance.

Make yourself always present to my mind, and let your love fill and rule my soul, in all those places, and companies, and employment to which you call me this day. O you who are good and do good, who extend your loving-kindness to all mankind, the work of your hands, your image, capable of knowing and loving you eternally; suffer me to exclude none, O Lord, from my charity, who are the object of your mercy, but let me treat all my neighbor with the tender love which is due to your servants and to your children. Let your love to me, O blessed Savior, be the pattern of my love to them.

Preserve my parents, my brothers and sisters, my friends and relations, and all mankind in their could and bodies. Forgive my enemies, and in your due time make them kindly effected toward me, O grant that we with those who are already dead in your faith and fear, may together partake of a joyful resurrection. "

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