Daily Prayers

O You who are King of kings and Lord of lords, we worship You.

Before Jehovah's awful throne, we bow with sacred joy.

We can truly say that we delight in God. There was a time when we feared You, O God, with the fear of bondage.

Now we reverence, but we love as much as we reverence.

The thought of Your omnipresence was once horrible to us.

We said, 'Where shall we flee from His presence?' and it seemed to make hell itself more dreadful.

But now, O Lord, we desire to find You.

Our longing is to feel Your presence, and it is the heaven of heavens that You are there.

The sick bed is soft when You are there.

The furnace of affliction grows cool when You are there.

And the house of prayer, when You are present, is none other than the house of God, and it is the very gate of heaven.

Come near, our Father, come very near to Your children.

Some of us are very weak in body and faint in heart.

Soon, O God, lay Your right hand upon us and say to us, 'Fear not.'

Perhaps some of us are alike, and the world is attracting us.

Come near to kill the influence of the world with Your superior power.

Even to worship may not seem easy to some.

The dragon seems to pursue them, and floods out of his mouth wash away their devotion.

Give to them great wings as of an eagle, that each one may fly away into the place prepared for him, and rest in the presence of God today.

Our Father, come and rest Your children now.

Take the helmet from our brow, remove from us the weight of our heavy armour for a while.

And may we just have peace, perfect peace, and be at rest.

Oh! help us, we pray You, now.

As You have already washed Your people in the fountain filled with blood, and they are clean.

Now this morning wash us from defilement in the water.

With the basin and with the pitcher, O Master, wash our feet again.

It will greatly refresh. It will prepare us for innermost fellowship with Yourself.