Robert Hawker: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers

Grant, dearest Lord, that though we still live in this world, yet never, never may we forget our relationship to you. Though we are outcasts, yet we are Jesus’ outcasts.

Lord, be our hiding place, so that you are all we need, like “rivers of water in a dry place, and as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.”

Oh for a word, a whisper of Jesus. I cannot live without it. I dare not let you go, unless you bless us. None of all the past enjoyments or experiences will do us any good, until you again shine in upon my soul. Come then, Lord Jesus! I fly to you as my God, my Savior, my portion, my all!

I see my daily, hourly, continual need of you. You are our hope and Savior! Keep me, Lord, near you, for without you I am nothing.

Precious Jesus, help me to see my clear part in you, from my union with you. And dear Lord, make me so strong in your strength, that during the whole period of my present warfare, I may be “terrible as an army with banners” to all who would oppose my way to you, and in you.

Yes, Lord! Let sin, and Satan, and the world, be united against me; yet do you put on me the whole armor of God, that I may “fight the good fight of faith, lay hold of eternal life, and be made more than conqueror through him who loves me.”

Amen.