[Faith-talk] A prayer of contentment

[Poppa Bear]

Thanks, I will try to keep sharing them. They have really encouraged me over 
the years.
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From: "Sheila Leigland" <sleigland at bresnan.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] A prayer of contentment


> 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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