Learn to pray from the greats
One book has brought me closer to God outside the bible. There’s not a close second.
This book is a collection of Puritan Prayers.
All the prayers are two or three pages long and rightly position the man before a holy God. The prayers reorient the mind and soul to humble adoration.
Christians wrongfully assume we naturally know how to pray. The question Keller asks in his book “Prayer”, is if the disciples needed to be taught how to pray, then we should also expect the need to be taught.
Below is a sample of one of the prayers.
This is my go to devotional book and I can’t reccomend it enough.
Valley of Vision
True Religion
I ask not to be enrolled amongst the earthly great and rich,
But to be numbered with the spiritually blessed.
to obtain these blessing which are spiriting in their nature,
eternal in their continuance,
satisfying in their possession.
Preserve me from a false estimate of the whole or part of my character;
May I pay regard to my principles as well as my conduct, my motives as well as my actions.
Help me never to mistake the excitement of my passions for the renewing of the Holy Spirit,
Never to judge may religion by occasional impressions and impulses, but by my constant and prevailing disposition.
May my heart be right with Thee, and my life as becometh the gospel.
May I maintain a supreme regard to another and better world, and feel and confess myself a stranger and pilgrim here.
Afford me all the direction, defense, support and consolation my journey hence requires, and grant me a mind stayed upon thee.
Give me large abundance of the supply of the Spirit of Jesus,
That I may be prepared for every duty,
Submit to thee in every trial,
Trust thee when walking in darkness,
Have peace in thee amidst life’s changes.
Lord, I believe, help thou my unbelief and uncertainties.
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