The Valley of Vision
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…
Day and night are thine, heaven and earth declare thy glory; but I, a creature of thy power and bounty, have sinned against thee by resisting the dictates of conscience, the demands of thy law, the calls of thy gospel; yet I live under the dispensation of a given hope. Read more…
That which I know not, teach thou me, Keep me a humble disciple in the school of Christ, learning daily there what I am in myself, a fallen sinful creature, justly deserving everlasting destruction;O let me never lose sight of my need of a Saviour, or forget that apart from him I am nothing, and can do Read more…
My heart melts at the love of Jesus, my brother, bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, married to me, dead for me, risen for me;He is mine and I am his, given to me as well as for me;I am never so much mine as when I am his, or so much Read more…
If I oppose the Word I oppose my Lord when he is most near;If I receive the Word I receive my Lord wherein he is nigh.O thou who hast the hearts of all men in thine hand, form my heart according to the Word, according to the image of thy Son,So shall Christ the Word, Read more…
‘Father, I have sinned’;Yet still I live, and fly repenting to thy oustretched arms; thou wilt not cast me off, for Jesus brings me near, thou wilt not condemn me, for he died in my stead, thou wilt not mark my mountains of sin, for he levelled all, and his beauty covers my deformities.O my God, I Read more…