Robert Hawker: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers

How good it is, Lord, to receive a broken Christ into a broken heart. We feed on your body broken, and your blood shed, as the sole, the only, the all-sufficient means of salvation by faith!

Lamb of God! Keep your table sacred from all leaven, both in the persons approaching it, and the offerings made upon it.

Do not allow the leaven of hypocrisy and wickedness here, but let all who meet around your table be of the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

And Lord, please come into your house, to your table, to your people. Let each person hear and joyfully accept the invitation of the kind Master: Eat, O friends; drink, yes, drink abundantly, O beloved!

Then Lord, make us yours, altogether yours! Let our whole body, soul, and spirit be all yours, both by the conquests of your grace, as they are justly yours, and by the purchase of your blood.

Never, never more may we depart from you, but as did the church of old, may we exult in this blessed assurance, “My beloved is mine, and I am his.”

Amen.