by Arthur W. Pink
by Arthur W. Pink
Philologos Religious Online Books
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by Arthur W. Pink
February, 1937
An Evening Prayer.
We come again into Thine immediate presence, and present our persons, our souls and bodies, before Thy Divine Majesty, to record Thy name, and celebrate Thy praise for all the blessings Thou hast bestowed on us the past day. Thou hast fed us. Thou hast been with us. Thou hast been our helper and defence. O Thou Most High God, we praise Thee, we worship Thee, we glorify Thee. Help us to pour out our souls before Thee in an acceptable manner. O Lord, it is with Thee to hear the desire of the humble, it is Thou who preparest the heart, it is Thou who inclinest Thine ear to hear. Surely O God, it is great condescension in Thee to look on such as we are. If one of Thine said before Thee, I am but dust and ashes, what, O Lord, can we say concerning ourselves. O that we had the same low and mean views of ourselves as is expressed in such an acknowledgement.
If another of Thine cried out, “Behold, I am vile,” how shall we order our speech before Thee by reason of our darkness? If a prophet, when favoured with a visionary sight of the ever-blessed God-man, cried out “Woe is me, for mine eyes have seen the King, Lord of hosts!” What shall we say, or how shall we open our mouths? Blessed be Thy name, Thou delightest in mercy. We come as sinners into Thy presence. We present ourselves before Thy Majesty, to magnify Thy name, because Thy mercy endureth forever. O for Thy presence with our souls at this time. O for a real sense of Thy goodness on our minds. Lord, help us to pour out our hearts before Thee. We are full of sin; O lead us to the fountain opened for sin and uncleanness. We are in ourselves all unrighteousness. O direct our minds to Jesus as the Lord our righteousness, and help us to receive Him afresh into our minds as such. We are all emptiness in ourselves. Lord, lead us to the fullness of Jesus for the supply of all our wants.
Thou hast bestowed innumerable mercies upon us throughout the past day. Lord, help us with gratitude and praise to glorify Thee for the same. Thou hast said, he that offereth praise glorifieth Thee. Help us so to do. It being what is our duty, and most reasonable service. We might each of us, under proper views of the personal mercies we have this single past day received and enjoyed from Thee, confess it wholly out of our power to praise Thee for these mercies. We thank Thee, O lord, that Thy name endureth forever, and Thy memorial throughout all generations. We pray, O Lord Jesus Christ, Thou wouldest look down most graciously on us. Lord, visit us. O Lord, refresh us. O Lord, revive us. O Lord, be Thou unto us as dew unto Israel, let us revive as the corn: let us grow as the vine: let us cast forth our roots as Lebanon; let us grow as the lily. It is with Thee, O blessed Jesus, to fulfill Thy holy promise unto Thy saints.
Thou art pleased to suit Thy Word to all the cases of Thy beloved ones. Thou art pleased to view and review all their wants and circumstances, and Thine eye and Thine heart is upon them perpetually. Blessed be Thy name, Thou art ever mindful of thy covenant. Thou hast Thy people in continual remembrance. Lord, we beseech Thee, to make one with us at this time. Lord, be Thou pleased to bring home to our minds, and fulfil in us, Thy holy will and Word concerning us. Let us give up ourselves unto Thee, to be cast into the very mold of Thy Gospel. Let us renounce all which is ours by nature. Let us know ourselves for what we are in ourselves, for what we see, feel, and experience in ourselves. Do Thou, O blessed Jesus, realise in each of our minds afresh the virtue and efficacy of Thy sacrifice and most precious blood. Let us fully believe the record given concerning it. Let us rest on the everlasting perfection of Thy one offering.
Do Thou shed Thy Holy Spirit in His Divine influences on us. O let us rejoice in Thee. Lord, be with us the remainder of this night. Lord, lay under us, Thine everlasting arms. O let us be found in Thee without spot and blameless. We beseech Thee, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the eternal Three in the self-existing and incomprehensible God-head, to be with us this night, to bless us this night, to defend us from all evil, and to bring us to behold and enter on the coming day in health and peace; and Thine shall be all the praise, Amen.—S.E. Pierce, 1820.
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