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Prayer & Praise 9/14/2025
Philip Doddridge: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers O Lord, let your grace and your love do for us what fear of your terrors alone cannot. Melt our hearts by that nobler principle, and teach us to despise everything that would … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 9/07/2025
Philip Doddridge: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers Blessed God! Meet me in the evening, Lord. Help me to choose the best time for regular reading and prayer, and to look at my devotion as you do. Do not let me … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 8/31/2025
Philip Doddridge: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers Blessed God! May I know the value of time, and always use it wisely in whatever work you assign me. Whether I eat, or drink, or whatever I do, may it always be … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 8/24/2025
Philip Doddridge: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers Blessed God! You are the great fountain of being and of happiness. Just as my being came from you, so my happiness flows directly from you. And the nearer I am to you, … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 8/17/2025
Lewis Bayly: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers I know, O Lord, and tremble to think, that three parts of the good seed fell upon bad ground. Let not my heart be like the highway. Through hardness and want of true … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 8/10/2025
Thomas Brooks: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers Lord! Lay whatever burden you will upon me, only let your everlasting arms be under me. Strike, Lord, and do not spare me. I lay down in your will. I have learned to … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 8/03/2025
John Howe: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers Lord, I am under no bonds that ought to bind me, or that justly can, against your sovereign right. Other bonds took a place in my heart and the affections of my soul—but … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 7/27/2025
Richard Baxter: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers Lord, I yield. I am overcome; O blessed conquest! Go on victoriously, and still prevail, and triumph in your love. This captive of love will proclaim your victory when you lead me in … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 7/20/2025
Isaac Ambrose: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers Unless I am born again, I cannot enter heaven. Born again? What does that mean, Lord? Did that kind of thing ever really happen to me? Was I ever cast into the pangs … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 7/13/2025
Philip Doddridge: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers Do what you will with us, God. We are your servants! Give us life and support, and the weakest of your children will not stumble at the greatest of your promises on account … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 7/06/2025
Philip Doddridge: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers You are the bountiful Father and sovereign Author of all good, whether natural or spiritual. I bless you for the talents with which you have enriched me, and which I do not deserve. … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 6/15/2025
John Bunyan: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers We have obtained grace to give ourselves to you, Lord, through your mercy, and to one another. To have communion with one another, as saints in one gospel fellowship, we agree and promise … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 6/08/2025
Richard Baxter: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers Can such a heart be worth having? Make it so, Lord, and then it is yours. Take it to yourself, and then take me. Like a feeble child to a tender mother I … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 6/01/2025
Philip Doddridge: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers Eternal and ever-blessed God! I humbly present myself before you. I am aware how unworthy a sinner like me appears before the holy Majesty of heaven, the King of kings and Lord of … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 5/25/2025
Joseph Alleine: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers Spirit of the Most High, the Comforter and Sanctifier of your chosen, come now with all your glory, all your courtly attendants, your fruits and graces. Let me be the place you live. … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 5/18/2025
Richard Alleine: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers Now speak, Lord, and I will hear. Now call, Lord, and I will answer. Now command me, impose on me what you will, and I will submit. None but the Lord, none but … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 5/11/2025
Joseph Alleine: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers Who am I, Lord, that I should make any claim on you, or have any part or portion in you, when I am not worthy to lick the dust of your feet? But … Continue reading
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The Absolute Necessity of Prayer – 2
Scripture Reference: Isaiah 58:9-11 The men of the Church of all ages who have held the Church for God have had in affluent fullness and richness the ministry of prayer. The rulers of the Church which the Scriptures reveal have … Continue reading
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The Absolute Necessity of Prayer – 1
Scripture Reference: Isaiah 58:9-11 It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God. His band is ever on the throttle of human affairs. He is everywhere present in the concerns of time. … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 5/04/2025
Robert Parker: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers Holy Lord God, I dare not approach your altar before I have cleansed my soul by confessing my sins and professing my faith to you—my only Savior and Redeemer. . . . Lord, … Continue reading
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