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Daily Devotionals
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Prayer shall be made for him continually and daily shall he be praised. Psalms 72:15.
O! a condescending king, who can always be approached. Who would not pray? You say. O that my coldness and indifference would permit me to do it! But are you not sensible of your wants and miseries? Is not this coldness and backwardness misery enough? Therefore you ought also to pray, and pray most when you are so dull and drowsy; else it will never be better with you. Arise, therefore, and pray; the good spirit of God will assist you in it. " Encouraged by the promises of a prayer-hearing God, (says Luther) and the special assistance of the Holy Spirit in this work, we must even in the greatest conflicts, not omit to resist the temptations of the devil. And though we have sinned, not defer it long; but pray directly, and say, the Lord is merciful, and I am unworthy and unable to pray: But, alas, what shall I do? Shall I wait till I am worthy and able? O no, perhaps this time will never come; for I am always a great, miserable sinner."
A Christian stands always in need of the Lord’s prayer, for since the sense and tenor of sin does not leave him, he can never leave off prayers. O Lord, grant that this continual fire may never be extinguished in my heart!
Arise, my soul, from deep distress,
And banish every fear;
God calls thee to his throne of grace,
To spread thy sorrows there.
