by Arthur W. Pink
by Arthur W. Pink
Philologos Religious Online Books
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by Arthur W. Pink
January, 1937
A Morning Prayer.
O Lord, it is declared in Your Word, that man is like a thing of nought, his time passeth away like a shadow. We have to set our seal to this truth. For the night is past with us, and the morning come, and it is wholly owing to Thy will we remain in existence in a time state. We are in a measure made sensible of this, as we are admitted to live one day after another. We are more and more made sensible we have no existence in ourselves: it is wholly in Thee we have life, being, and existence. O that Thou wouldest make us more sensible of it. O that Thou wouldest deeply affect our minds herewith. Lord, grant us such a view hereof, as may lead us to entreat Thee so to teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
We do again draw nigh unto Thee, O Lord our God, beseeching Thee to grant us audience with Thy Divine majesty. Help us to appear before Thee in the name and Person, righteousness and sacrifice, intercession and advocacy of Thine Anointed, the holy and immaculate Lamb. O Lord, we have nothing in ourselves but sin. We are all impurity, we can come before Thee no otherwise than we are. To us belong shame and confusion of face. We are in every, in the uttermost sense of the expression, lost, undone, sinful, guilty, and vile. It is that alone which sustains us, that it is declared in Thy Word concerning Thee, “That Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness.” It is the knowledge and belief of this which encourages us to come before Thee.
At Thy throne of grace, as the monuments of Thy sacred mercy, we desire to extol and praise Thy most holy name, that it hath pleased Thee to spare us the night past. We praise Thee for admitting us to continue in a time state to the present moment. O give us a real sense of the blessing and benefit of Thy preserving care and providence. It hath pleased Thee to exercise the same toward us to the present moment. We would lift up our hearts unto Thee, O Lord, in praise and thanksgiving for the same. Lord God, we find ourselves just as sinful and helpless in our selves as ever. Blessed be Thy name, Thou art the Lord our God, and Thy compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great, O Lord, is thy faithfulness. We would pray for such a sense of it on each of our minds, as might draw forth all our spiritual faculties to bless and magnify Thy holy name.
Thou art a covenant-keeping and covenant-performing God. Thou art always mindful of Thy covenant. O look on us, before Thee, as those who are interested in Thy covenant. O look upon us as fit objects and subjects for Thy majesty to exercise the tender mercies of Thy covenant on. We most certainly are, in ourselves, in our cases and circumstances, just exactly such as need the grace, mercy, and compassion, life, and salvation which is contained in the declaration of grace, in the promises of pardon, made known by it. We therefore cry out before Thee, O Lord, our God. We entreat Thee to behold us in Christ Jesus. O view us in Him. Lord, shine forth on us. Give us a sense of Thy covenant mercy. Grant us an enjoyment of Thy covenant salvation. Bless us in Christ Jesus: warm our hearts: raise up our minds: fill us with the gifts, graces, and consolations of the Holy Spirit.
O let our souls be under the mighty, all-constraining, all-conquering influence of Thine everlasting love this day. We would pray Thee to keep us this day from sinning against Thee. Lord, we are in ourselves, and when left to ourselves, like water which runneth apace. O succour us. O defend us. O be Thou near unto us this day, and uphold us with the right hand of Thy righteousness. Blessed God and Father, do Thou most graciously compassionate us. Let us have an evidence of it, by Thy taking each of our cases under Thine own particular notice and regard. O that we may be under the influence of the Holy Spirit this day. Lord Jesus Christ, be with our spirits. Lord Jesus, do Thou guide us with Thine eye. O keep us near Thyself. Suffer no iniquity to have dominion over us; save us from ourselves.
Save us, O Lord, from our constitutional sins, tempers, and corruptions. O let them be kept under, and subdued by the omnipotent power of Thy grace. Let us experience the power of Thy life and death in our mortal flesh: to the intent that we may live no longer to the lust of the flesh, but to the will of God. We beseech Thee, O Holy Spirit, to bring our minds and hearts under the mighty power of all-conquering grace. O Lord, let not sin, nor Satan, prevail against us. We would pray Thee to bless us in our bodies and souls, and grant that every blessing we shall enjoy this day, may savour of Heaven, and be received as so many pledges of Thy good-will and regard unto us. We pray Thee to sanctify all our blessings, and us to the use of them, to Thy praise and glory. So we request Thou wouldest keep us entirely dependent on Thee for the continuance of them. We leave ourselves with Thee, Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, to whom be glory forever. Amen.—S.E. Pierce, 1820.
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