[Faith-talk] A prayer of contentment

[Sheila Leigland]

that is a neat prayer. I enjoy hearing them.
On 9/10/2013 3:30 PM, Poppa Bear wrote:
> Contentment
>    Heavenly Father, if I should suffer need, and go unclothed, and be in poverty,
>    make my heart prize Thy love, know it, be constrained by it, though I be
>    denied all blessings. It is Thy mercy to afflict and try me with wants, for by
>    these trials I see my sins, and desire severance from them. Let me willingly
>    accept misery, sorrows, temptations, if I can thereby feel sin as the greatest
>    evil, and be delivered from it with gratitude to Thee, acknowledging this as
>    the highest testimony of Thy love.
>    When thy Son, Jesus, came into my soul instead of sin He became more dear to
>    me than sin had formerly been; His kindly rule replaced sin's tyranny. Teach
>    me to believe that if ever I would have any sin subdued I must not only labour
>    to overcome it, but must invite Christ to abide in the place of it, and He
>    must become to me more than vile lust had been; that His sweetness, power,
>    life may be there. Thus I must seek a grace from Him contrary to sin, but must
>    not claim it apart from Himself.
>    When I am afraid of evils to come, comfort me by showing me that in myself I
>    am a dying, condemned wretch, but in Christ I am reconciled and live; that in
>    myself I find insufficiency and no rest, but in Christ there is satisfaction
>    and peace; that in myself I am feeble and unable to do good, but in Christ I
>    have ability to do all things. Though now I have His graces in part, I shall
>    shortly have them perfectly in that state where Thou wilt show Thyself fully
>    reconciled, and alone sufficient, efficient, loving me completely, with sin
>    abolished. O Lord, hasten that day.
>      
>
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