17. I come before you as a sinner saved by grace to be your servant and saint, so I boldly pray that you would abundantly grant me the grace to live by and to keep your instruction. 17 Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live and keep your word. 18. Your word is filled with wondrous truth, by your Spirit open my eyes to see it, understand it, believe it and obey it. 18 Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. 19. Remind me that I am a stranger and pilgrim on the earth, a traveler to a far distant home,…
9. I am prone to wander, and thus I cry out for your grace, keep me from going astray, show me from Your Word how to keep my way pure. 9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. 10. This is my supplication: I seek for, long for you. Use your Word as your means of grace in me, that I might find you and know you. 10 With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! 11. Move and enable me to read, mark, learn, remember, and memorize your Word in such a way that it gets into and takes a…
Each year, I prepare a prayer for all of our RTS graduating students. I try to base the prayer primarily on a passage of Scripture. I want our graduates to know for certain that the things that I am praying for them are things that God wants for them, and says so in his word. Last year, for instance, I prayed from one of my favorite prayers of the Bible, Ephesians 3:14-19. This year, I settled on John 17:14-26, often known as Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer. It is one of the profoundest prayers in all of Scripture. As I was preparing to pray and…
Last year (2019), I went through David B. Calhoun’s edition of “Prayers on the Psalms” (@BannerofTruth) about 2 1/2 times, with daily prayer postings on social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram). This year (2020) I am going to work through O.…