Robert Hawker: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers

Precious Jesus, let me go to the place where your people pray. Let me hear your voice, inviting us to be with you.

I will follow the Lamb wherever he goes. I will follow you to the place where your people gather. I will wait to see my God and King in his sanctuary.

My soul thirsts for you, as a deer thirsts for cooling streams. And when I join your people in the place where we pray, may your grace and Holy Spirit fire my soul with a foretaste of that glorious assembly that keeps an eternal Sabbath above—the place where the everlasting praises of God and of the Lamb will grip and fill my raptured soul with joy unspeakable and glory to all eternity.

Amen.