How important is it that we spend time each day if possible just soaking in God's word, reading it, applying it to our lives and letting it change us?
But sometimes that requires a lot of discipline - speaking from personal experience I find it both a joy and a struggle how about you?
Abiding in His Word and His truth is the key
to living an abundant, satisfying life filled
with purpose and meaning!!
GOD THE SOURCE OF ALL GOOD
O LORD GOD, WHO INHABITEST ETERNITY,
The heavens declare thy glory,
The earth thy riches,
The Universe is thy temple;
Thy presence fills immensity,
Yet thou hast of thy pleasure created life,
And communicated happiness;
Thou hast made me what I am, and givenme
What I have;
In thee I live and move and have my being;
Thy providence has set the counds of my habitation,
And wisely administers all my affairs.[b]I thank thee for my riches to me in Christ Jesus,
For the unclouded revelation of him in thy Word,
Where I behold his Person, character, grace, glory,
Humiliation, sufferings, death, resurrection;
Give me to feel a need of continual saviourhood,
And cry with Job, “I am vile”,
With Peter, “I Perish”,
With the publican, “Be merciful to me, a sinner”.
Subdue in me the love of sin,
Let me know the need of renovation as well as
Of forgiveness,
In order to serve and enjoy thee for ever.
I come to thee in the all-prevailing name of Jesus,
With nothing of my own to plead,
No works, no worthiness, no promises.
I am often straying,
Often knonwingly opposing thy authority,
Often abusing thy goodness;
Much of my guilt arises from my religious privileges,
My low estimation of them,
My failure to use them to my advantage,
But I am not careless of Thy favor or regardless of
Thy glory;
Impress me deeply with a sense of thine
Omnipresence, that thou art about my path,
My ways, my lying down, my end.
The Valley of Vision- Puritan Prayers & Devotions
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(Prayers & Devotions from the Puritans from 1660-1894)
[b]THE CRY OF A CONVICTED SINNER
THOU RIGHTEOUS AND HOLY SOVEREIGN,
On whose hand is my life and whose are all
My ways,
Keep me from fluttering about religion;
Fix me firm in it,
For I am irresolute;
My decisions are smoke and vapour,
And I do not glorify thee,
Or behave according to thy will;
Cut me not off before my thoughts grow
To responses,
And the budding of my soul into full flower,
For thou art forbearing and good,
Patient and kind.[b]Save me from myself,
From the artifices and deceits of sin,
From the treachery of my perverse nature,
From denying thy charge against my offences,
From a life of continual revellion against thee.
I have acted as if I hated thee, although thou art
Love itself;
Have contrived to tempt thee to the uttermost,
To wear out thy patience;
Have lived evily in word and action.
Had I been a prince
I would long ago have crushed such a rebel;
Had I been a father
I would long since have rejected my child.
O, thou Father of my spirit,
Thou King of my life,
Cast me not into destruction,
Drive me not from thy presence,
But wound my heart that it may be healed;
Break it that thine own hand
May make it whole.
The Valley of Vision- Puritan Prayers & Devotions
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