The Valley of Vision
A wake from thy wandering dream; turn from chasing vanities, look inward, forward, upward, view thyself, reflect upon thyself, who and what thou art, why here, what thou must soon be.Thou art a creature of God, formed and furnished by him, lodged in a body like a shepherd in his tent;Dost thou not desire to know God’s ways? Read more…
I have trusted thee and thou hast not betrayed my trust; waited for thee, and not waited in vain.Thou wilt come to raise my body from the dust, and re-unite it to my soul, by a wonderful work of infinite power and love, greater than that which bounds the oceans’ waters, ebbs and flows the tides, keeps Read more…
Help me to be in reality before theeas in appearance I am before men,to be religious before I profess religion,to leave the world before I enter the church,to set my affections on things above,to shun forbidden follies and vanities,to be a dispenser as well as a partaker of grace,to be Read more…
O LORD GOD, WHO INHABITEST ETERNITY, The heavens declare thy glory, The earth thy riches,The universe is thy temple;Thy presence fills immensity,Yet thou hast of thy pleasure created life, and communicated happiness;Thou hast made me what I am, and given me what I have;In thee I live and move and have my being;Thy Read more…
The universe with all its myriad creatures is thine, made by thy word, upheld by thy power, governed by thy will.But thou art also the Father of mercies, the God of all grace, the bestower of all comfort, the protector of the saved. https://banneroftruth.org/us/devotional/third-day-morning-god-creator-and-controller/ This is an extract from Valley of Vision. The Valley of Vision is a Read more…
My natural desires are corrupt and misguided, and it is thy mercy to destroy them;My spiritual longings are of thy planting, and thou wilt water and increase them;Quicken my hunger and thirst after the realm above. https://banneroftruth.org/us/devotional/earth-and-heaven/ This is an extract from Valley of Vision. The Valley of Vision is a collection of Puritan prayers, poems Read more…
Thy main plan, and the end of thy will is to make Christ glorious and beloved in heaven where he is now ascended, where one day all the elect will behold his glory and love and glorify him for ever.Though here I love him but little, may this be my portion at last. https://banneroftruth.org/us/devotional/christ-alone-2/ This is Read more…
Thou hast placed me in the church which thy Son purchased by his own blood. Add grace to grace that I may live worthy of my vocation. I am a voyager across life’s ocean; Safe in heaven’s ark, may I pass through a troubled world into the harbour of eternal Read more…
I humble myself for faculties misused, opportunities neglected, words ill-advised, I repent of my folly and inconsiderate ways, my broken resolutions, untrue service, my backsliding steps, my vain thoughts. O bury my sins in the ocean of Jesus’ blood and let no evil result from my fretful temper, unseemly behaviour, Read more…
Grant me more and more to prize the privilege of prayer, to come to thee as a sin-soiled sinner, to find pardon in thee, to converse with thee; to know thee in prayer as the path in which my feet tread, the latch upon the door of my lips, the light that shines through my eyes, the music of Read more…