Robert Hawker: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers

Wonderful Stranger, did you come from a far country, on this gracious, blessed errand to seek and save that which was lost?

And did you find every heart firmly shut against you?

Jesus, when you traveled in the greatness of your strength, did you open an entrance into the souls of your people, by the sweet influence of your Holy Spirit?

Then throw open the street doors of my heart! Make them like the gates of that blessed city, never shut by day or night. And cause my soul, like the prophet on the watchtower, or Abraham in the tent door, to be always on the lookout for my Lord’s approach. In this way I may invite you, even beg you to come in and abide with me.

Make yourself known to me by the heart-burning discourses of your word, and in breaking of bread and of prayer.

Amen.