September 3
Your heart shall live that seek God. — Psalm 69:32
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LORD, our gracious Father, we would bring to Thee our thanksgiving for all
Thy great kindness and love to us. We bless Thee for all remembered or
forgotten of Thy providences. We bless Thee for all the way by which the Lord
our God hath led us, and whilst Thou hast been so gracious in the past, we
thank Thee that we can hope in Thee perfectly for all the future.
Strengthen us, we pray Thee, that we may draw near to Thee
with lowly and obedient spirits. Do Thou quicken us, that we may call upon Thy
Name with more earnestness of desire, and more true submission, and more true
faith than we sometimes have. We acknowledge that, as we go about our daily
work, we too often forget Thee, for Whose sake and by Whose strength it should
all be done. We confess that we yield for too much to the temptations that are
around us, drawing us away from Thee. We live as if the present world were all
we had to do with or depend upon. Do Thou deliver us, we pray Thee, from all
foolish over-estimate of the worth of transitory things here, and enable us to
rise above the temptations of the fleeting present, and to find in Thyself the
treasure that the world cannot give, and no change can take away. Amen.
Rev. W. A. Cameron, B.A,
Toronto,
Ontario, Canada
April 29
My prayer is unto Thee, O Lord. — Psalm 59:13
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O
GOD, our Father, give us Thy blessing in these moments of spiritual
communion with Thee. We come before Thee in a deep sense of our own
unworthiness. We have sinned in thought and word and deed. Yet hear us, as we
turn to Thee again with penitent hearts. Forgive us our sins; grant us again
Thy peace. And give us grace to serve Thee in newness of life, to the glory of Thy
Holy Name. We thank Thee for Thy constant goodness; for the bounty which has
supplied our wants; for the providence which has kept us from harm; for the
love which has redeemed us from sin; for the grace which has helped us to serve
Thee on earth; and for the promise of an inheritance in Heaven.
Keep us from the evil in ourselves; from the evil in the
world about us; from all selfish, unkind, and impure thoughts; from all hard
and bitter words; from doing that which we ought not to do, and from leaving undone
that which we ought to do. Keep us in the constant sense of our membership in
Christ; in the thought that we are His disciples and followers; in the love of
our Father's house, and in the hope of our eternal home. We ask all in the name
of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Compiled and adapted by permission from A Book of Common
Order, in use at St. Giles' Church, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Bishop Boyd Vincent, D.D.,
Cincinnati,
Ohio
