MY LIFE MOTTO

* A beautiful apothegm by an unknown author:

In order to maintain and ever increase my faith, I shall always with joyful expectation and with peace in my soul, excitedly anticipate the blessings of God to flow unto me.


Friday, October 29, 2010

22. MORNING PRAYER FOR A COMMUNICANT.

     O Lord Jesus, this morning I rejoice in being privileged, because of Thy great goodness, together with my fellow-Christians, to go to Thy house and to partake of Thy body and blood in, with, and under the consecrated bread and wine.  Oh, how my soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord and His alter!  As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, my Redeemer.  For Thou art my Shepard; I shall not want.  O Lord Jesus, even as Thou hast begun the good work in me, a poor wretched sinner, so also mercifully perform it by the gracious aid of Thy Holy Spirit unto Thy honor and the welfare and salvation of my soul.  O dearest Redeemer, I am indeed not worthy that Thou shouldst come under my roof, but may Thy grace, able to do all things, render me worthy and well prepared, so that Thy true body and blood, a priceless nourishment, may refresh my soul in this heavenly feast of love and joy.  Array Thou me, I beseech Thee, in the vestures of true faith that I may not be found among the guests without wedding-garments, but be a worthy guest at Thy Table and partake of all the treasures of grace which Thou hast provided.  May Thy grace, O Lord Jesus, be and remain with me, even as my hope is continually in Thee.  May Thy providence preserve my spirit, my life, and my Being.  And do Thou bestow, O faithful God, what else I may stand in need of in this world and the next.

Thou, who feedest us below!
Source of all we have or know!
Grant that with Thy saints above
We may share Thy feast of love!
Amen.

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