Robert Hawker: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers

Dear and blessed Lord, you are our inheritance and portion forever.

Glorious, gracious, and almighty Father, your choice and your gift confirm, sweeten, and sanctify your eternal and unspeakable mercy.

Holy and blessed Spirit, you cause my poor soul to live by grace here and in glory, to all eternity.

Great, glorious, universal Lord. To you, blessed Jesus, every knee will bow. You are all in all in creation, redemption, providence, grace, and glory. You are all in all in your church, and in the hearts of your people. You are in all our joys, our happiness, our work, our privileges. You are the all in all in your word, ordinances, means of grace. You are the sum and substance of the whole Bible.

Do we speak of promises? You are the first promise in the sacred word, the whole of every promise that follows. You are the “yes and amen.”

Do we speak of the law? “You are the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes.”

Do we speak of sacrifices? “By your one sacrifice you have forever perfected them that are sanctified.”

Do we speak of the prophecies? “To you all the prophets give witness, that whoever believes in you will receive remission of sins.”

Yes, blessed, blessed Jesus, you are the all in all. Be to me, Lord, the all in all I need in time, and then surely you will be my all in all to all eternity,

Amen.