Spiritual Helps

Grant that in every fall I may sink lower
on my knees,
and that when I rise it may be to loftier heights
of devotion.

Divine Promises

May I reach a higher platform,
leave the mists of doubt and fear in the valley,
and climb to hill-tops of eternal security in Christ
by simply believing that He cannot lie,
or turn from His purpose.

Consecration and Worship

But though I live continually,
He contunually repeats His kindness to me.
At times I feel I could bear any suffering,
but how can I dishonour the glorious God?

Longings After God

Wrap my life in divine love,
and keep me ever desiring thee,
always humble and resigned to thy will,
more fixed on thyself,
that I may be more fitted for doing
and suffering.

Evening Renewal

Evening Renewal

O help me to set and example that will ever
Rebuke vice,
Allure to goodness,
And evidence that lovely are the ways of Christ

Evening Prayer

Help me gird up the loins of my mind,
to quicken my step,
to speed as if each moment were my last,
that my life be joy, my death glory.

Evening Prayer

I wish not so much to do as to be,
and I long to be like Jesus.

Morning Dedication

May I speak each word as if it were my last word,
and walk each step as my final one.
If my life should end today,
let this be my best day.

Morning Needs

May I engage in nothing in which I cannot
implore thy blessing,
and in which I cannot invite thy inspection.

Morning

My adversaries are part and parcel of my very nature;
They cling to be as my very skin;
I cannot escape their contact.
In my rising up and my sitting down they
barnacle me.
They entice me with constant baits;
My enemy is within the citadel;
Come with almighty power and cast him out,
pierce him to death,
and abolish in me every particle
of carnal life today.

Grace Active

Every new duty calls for more grade than
I know possess,
but not more than I find in thee,
the divine Treasury in whom all fullness dwells.

Divine Support

Let thy unexampled love constrain me into
holy obedience,
and render my duty my delight.

Caring Love

I grieve to think of how insensible I have been
of the claims of thy authority,
and the endearments of thy love;
how little I have credited they truth,
trusted thy promises,
feared thy threats,
obey thy commands,
improved my advantages,
welcomed thy warnings,
responded to thy grace;
but not withstanding my desert I yet live.

New Year

O Lord,
Length of days does not profit me
except the days are passed in thy presence,
in thy service, to thy glory.

Years End

Thou art good when thou givest,
when thou takest away,
when the sun shines upon me,
when night gathers over me.

Voyage

O Love beyond compare,
The voyage is long, the waves high, the storms pitiless,
but my helm is held steady,
thy Word secures safe passage,
the graces wafts me onward,
my haven is guarenteed.
This day will bring me nearer home...

Spiritual Growth

May I be consistent in conversation and conduct,
the same alone as in company,
in prosperity and adversity,
accepting all the commandments as right,
and hating every false way.

Journeying on

Keep from it [my heart] every opposing foe
crush in it every rebel lust,
mortify every treacherous passion,
annihilate every earthborn desire.

Faith and the world

O Lord,
The world is artful to entrap,
approaches in fascinating guise,
extends many a gilded bait,
presents many a charming face.
Let my faith scan every painted bauble,
and escape every bewitching snare
in a victory that overcomes all things.

Desires

May I value things in relation to eternity.

Choices

[Help me] to deem it an honour to be employed by thee
as an instrument in thy hands,
ready to seize every opportunity of usefulness,
and willing to offer all my talents to thy service.


All thy work for me is perfect,
and I praise thee.

The Infinite and the Finite

Let me live a life of self-distrust,
dependence on Thyself,
mortification,
crucifixion,
prayer.

Weaknesses

I request only to see the face of him I love,
to be content with bread to eat,
with raiment to put on,
if I can be brought to thy house in peace.

Need of Jesus

I was a stranger, an outcast, a slave, a rebel,
but thy cross has brought me near,
has softened my heart,
has made me thy Father's child,
has admitted me to thy family,
has made me joint-heir with thyself.

Peril

Thy never-failing providence orders every event,
sweetens every fear,
reveals evil's presence lurking in seeming good,
brings real good out of seeming evil,
makes unsatisfactory what I set my heart upon,
to show me what a short-sighted creature I am,
and to teach men to live by faith upon
thy blessed self.

Conflict

Teach me to look to Jesus in His cross,
and so to know sin's loathsomeness in thy sight

And my holiness be the atmosphere
in which I live.

Need of Grace

O that all my distresses and apprehensions
might prove but Christ's school
to make me fit for greater service
by teaching me the great lessons of humility.

Reliance

...to make the creature [the flesh] something is to make it stand between thee and me, so that I do not walk humbly and holily.

New Beginning

Enable me to remember that blood which cleanseth all sin,
to believe in that grace that subdues all iniquities,
to resign myself to that agency which can deliver me from the bondage of corruption
into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.