Sunday Evening: The Teacher

O God, We bless You, our Creator, Preserver, benefactor, Teacher, for opening to us the volume of nature where we may read and consider Your works.
You have this day spread before us the fuller pages of revelation, and in them we see what You would have us do, what You require of us, what You have done for us, what You have promised to us, what You have given us in Jesus.
We pray for a conscious experience of His salvation, in our deliverance from sin, in our bearing His image, in our enjoying His presence, in our being upheld by his free Spirit.
Let us not live uncertain of what we are, of where we are going.
Bear witness with our spirit that we are Your children; and enable each one to say, ‘I know my Redeemer.”
Bless us with a growing sense of this salvation.
If already enlightened in Christ, may we see greater things; If quickened, may we have more abundant life, If renewed, let us go on from strength to strength.
Give us closer abiding in Jesus that we may bring forth more fruit, have a deeper sense of our obligations to Him, that we may surrender all, have a fuller joy, that we may serve Him more completely.
And may our faith work by love towards Him who died, towards our fellow believers, towards our fellow men. Amen.