[Faith-talk] Prayer/thought for October 26

[Poppa Bear]

Valley of vision, Puritan prayers.

  Morning

  Compassionate Lord, Thy mercies have brought me to the dawn of another
day. 

  Vain will be its gift unless I grow in grace, increase in knowledge, ripen
for 

  spiritual harvest. Let me this day know Thee as Thou art, love Thee
supremely, 

  serve Thee wholly, admire Thee fully. Through grace let my will respond to


  Thee, knowing that power to obey is not in me, but that Thy free love
alone 

  enables me to serve Thee. Here then is my empty heart, overflow it with
Thy 

  choicest gifts; here is my blind understanding, chase away its mists of 

  ignorance. 

  O ever watchful Shepherd, lead, guide, tend me this day; without Thy 

  restraining rod I err and stray. Hedge up my path lest I wander into 

  unwholesome pleasure, and drink its poisonous streams; direct my feet that
I 

  be not entangled in Satan's secret snares, nor fall into his hidden traps.


  Defend me from assailing foes, from evil circumstances, from myself. My 

  adversaries are part and parcel of my nature; they cling to me as my very 

  skin; I cannot escape their contact. In my rising up and sitting down they


  barnacle me; they entice with constant baits; my enemy is within the
citadel. 

  Come with almighty power and cast him out, pierce him to death, and
abolish in 

  me every particle of carnal life this day.