Robert Hawker: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers

Blessed Jesus, you have done all, and more. You are the door into your fold here below, and to your courts above. For you have said that by you, “whoever enters in, will go in, and find pasture.”

And you have opened a new and living way by your blood. You are the only possible way of access to the Father. And because you have opened it, no one can shut it. You live to keep the way you once opened, still open, by your continuing intercession.

Heavenly Lord, the gate is never shut, day nor night. In the preaching of your everlasting gospel, all the ends of the earth will see this salvation of our God. And, as you have graciously said, all that come to God by you, will never be shut out.

The word has gone out. Your blood and righteousness secure it. The Spirit sets his seal to it. You will receive, you will bless, you will cause all the Father has given you to come to you. And you will keep the door always open for all comers.

What a precious, endless salvation! I pray that my fellow sinners, still outside, would rouse up from their carnal security and sloth, before the master of the house gets up and shuts the door.

“Now is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation.”

Amen.