PRAYER DAY

May the Lord give us and our children, with the congregations, a deep impression of our dependency upon the Lord, but also of our unworthiness due to the fall in Paradise, and that day after day, we have no right to any outward or inward blessings. It has all been sinned away, but still we are at this side of death and the grave. The Lord has spoken in several ways during the past winter with wind, snow, ice and rain. What a number of people have died as a result of this. But to take it to heart is only by the grace of God, even though the responsibility lies for us as creatures of the Lord. With all our religion, we are dead in transgressions and sins. Only when a wonder happens from above, shall there be a blessed result and fruit. The Lord, only, can break our heart asunder confessing God’s justice and righteousness that we are unworthy of the least of God’s blessings and consideration.

This season we will have a Prayer Day, but in ourselves we are so prayerless.

In Genesis 4:26 we read: “And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began man to call upon the name of the Lord.” That was the first public service. Who was responsible for this? God, Himself, in His free and sovereign grace and love. God is a prayer-giving, a prayer-hearing and a prayer-answering God which is made possible only in and through that Great Intercessor, the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the privilege of the true church of the living God, Heb. 4:14, “Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.” We also read in Rom. 8:26: “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.”

Without those things which the Lord mentions in His Word, we are so poor that we cannot express it. Only when we come by grace, under the ministration of the Holy Spirit, do we find how wretched, poor and empty we are. The blame is not upon the Lord; no, far from it. He created us perfect and after His own image. It is all our own guilt and nothing less.

O Lord, that it might please Thee to give us a Prayer Day; a prayer in truth and uprightness, but most of all for the honor of God’s great and Holy Name and for His attributes. That His Name may be honored and glorified in our heart and life, in our family, children and grandchildren, for the coming of His Kingdom and for the breaking down of the work of Satan. That the Lord, Himself, may teach us to pray: “Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner.”

That there might be a prayer for the extension of Thy truth and of Thy church from pole to pole over the length and breadth of the earth. That the Lord might preserve us to stay with the truth which is the only right truth. That the Lord might remember our churches and schools in this year and season; also all those that labor in the church. That our life was in the fear of the Lord, and that God’s Name was never blasphemed on account of our conduct. That we might receive a prayer for our President and government in nation, state and city; that the work of the devil might be broken down and the Sabbath honored; that married life might be protected and preserved from all kinds of murdering, killing and all works of darkness.

Also, that the Lord might remember our fields, our industry and our cattle and all the works of our hands. The needs in several families are great; poverty is standing before our doors.

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly. That God might bring us back unto Himself, His Word and testimony. “Turn Thou us unto Thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned.” Renew our days as of old.

May the Lord graciously bless the few lines to our souls and the souls of our generation.

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