New Beginning

We end this week of blogging about revival to a prayer on NEW BEGINNINGS:

Incomprehensible, Great and Glorious God,

I adore You and abase myself,
I approach You mindful that I am less than nothing, a creature worse than nothing.
My thoughts are not screened from Your graze,
My secret sins blaze in the light of Your countenance.

Enable me to remember that blood which cleanse all sin, to believe in that grace which subdues all iniquity, to resign myself to that agency which can deliver me from the bondage of corruption into glorious liberty of the sons of God.

You have begun a good work in me and can alone continue and complete it.
Give me an increasing conviction of my tendency to err, and of my exposure to sin.

Help me to feel more of the purifying, softening influence of religion, its compassion, love, pity, courtesy, and employ me as Your instrument in blessing others.

Give me to distinguish between the mere form of godliness and its power, between life and a name to live, between guile and truth, between hypocrisy and a religion that will bear Your eye.

If I am not right, set me right, keep me right; And may I at last come to Your house in peace. Amen

Great prayer to prepare your heart for the Lord’s Day! Have a blessed weekend. – Bill Welte is President & CEO of America’s Keswick

Team YOU: Psalm 146-147; Proverbs 5; 1 Corinthians 15:1-28

Motivations: “When my eye is filled with my own management of things, I am not prepared to see God acting for me; and, in that case, prayer is not the utterance of my need, but the mere superstitious performance of something which I think ought to be done, or it may be, asking God to sanctify my plans. This will never do. It is not asking God to sanctify and bless my means, but it is asking Him to do it all Himself.”  CH Macintosh, 1879.  We have to get over the idea that prayer is giving God advice on how to accomplish our plan.

Practice to Remember: Level 1:Philippians 4:4-5; Level 2: Philippians 4:1-7

Powered Up:  Little prayer is characteristic of a backslidden age and of a backslidden church. Whenever there is little prayer in the pulpit or pew, spiritual bankruptcy is imminent and inevitable. E. M. Bounds