Sovereign Lord,
Your will is supreme in heaven and earth, and all beings are creatures of Your power.
You are the Father of our spirits; Your inspiration gives us understanding, Your providence governs our lives.
But, O God, we are sinners in Your sight; You have judged us so, and if we deny it we declare You a liar.
Yet in Christ, we Your rebellious subjects, are reconciled to You; give us the ear of faith to hear Him, the eye of faith to see Him, the hand of faith to receive Him, the appetite of faith to feed upon Him; that we might find in Him light, riches, honor, and eternal life.
You are the inviting One, may we hearken to You; the Almighty Instructor, teach us to live to You; the Light-Dweller, inaccessible to man and angels, hiding Yourself behind the elements of creation, but known to us in Jesus. Possess our minds with grandeur of Your perfections.
Your love to us in Jesus is firm and changeless; nothing can separate us from it, and the enjoyment of it nothing can make us miserable.
Preserve us from hypocrisy and formality in religion; let it not be vain, deceiving our own hearts, but pure.
Enable us to remember what You are and what we are, to recall Your holiness and our unworthiness;
Help us to approach You clothed with humility, for vanity, forwardness, insensibility, disorderly affection, backwardness to duty, proneness to evil are in our hearts.
Let us never forget Your patience, wisdom, power, faithfulness, care, and never cease to respond to Your invitations.
Amen.
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