Wow, now that I'm blogging again, I'm here every day! I feel so productive ;) I really wanted to stop and share with you what God showed me this morning in my quiet time; because people, He is awesome and amazes me! And I want you to see too!
I started the new #SheReadsTruth plan yesterday. It is about meditation and confession. Yesterday was meditation and we meditated on Psalm 19, talk about amazing! Today was confession - We read John 1:8-9 and a prayer from the Puritans. My dad actually loves the puritans so I am pretty familiar with them. They definitely have a way with words and this prayer wrecked me in such a good way! I also read Psalms 44 as a part of my study and the Lord continued to show me so many things.
Lord Jesus,
Give me a deeper repentance,
a horror of sin,
a dread of its approach;
help me chastely to flee it,
and jealously to resolve that my heart shall be thine alone.
Give me a deeper trust,
that I may lose myself to find myself in thee,
the ground of my rest,
the spring of my being.
Give me a deeper knowledge of thyself,
as saviour, master, lord and king.
Give me deeper power in private prayer,
more sweetness in thy Word,
more steadfast grip on its truth.
Give me deeper holiness in speech, thought, action,
and let me not seek moral virtue apart from thee.
Plough deep in me, great Lord, heavenly husbandman,
that my being may be a tilled field,
the roots of grace spreading far and wide,
until thou alone art seen in me,
thy beauty golden like summer harvest,
they fruitfulness as autumn plenty.
I have no master but thee,
no law but thy will,
no delight by thyself,
no wealth but that thou givest,
no good but that thou blessest,
no peace but that thou bestowest.
I am nothing but that thou makest me,
I have nothing but that I receive from thee,
I can do nothing but that grace adorns me.
Quarry me deep, dear Lord,
and then fill me to overflowing with living water.
(from The Valley of Vision: A collection of Puritan prayers and devotions, ©2001, The Banner of Truth Trust, p.75.)
By the end I was almost in tears. I read through it three times and then again, this time praying each though in my own words. God, quarry me deep! Break me for your purpose! Fill me with Your living water, the only thing that can satisfy! Amen!
Psalm 44:3,6-8
"for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm save them, but your right hand and your arm and the light of your face,
For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me.
But you have saved us from our foe and have put to shame those who hate us.
In God we have boasted continually,
For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me.
But you have saved us from our foe and have put to shame those who hate us.
In God we have boasted continually,
and we will give thanks to your name foreverSelah"
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