Prayer III

Pray once more with me for the women attending the Set Apart Girls conference today.  Pray for open hearts and good ears!

You are the inviting One, may they hearken to You;
                   the almighty Instructor, teach them to live to You;
                   the light-dweller, inaccessible to man and angels,
                   hiding Yourself behind the elements of creation, but known to us in Jesus.

Possess their minds with the grandeur of Your perfections.
Your love to us in Jesus is firm and changeless,
                   nothing can separate us from it,
                    and in the enjoyment of it, nothing can make us miserable. 

Preserve them from hypocrisy and formality in religion; enable them to remember what You are and what they are, to recall Your holiness and their unworthiness.

Help them to approach You clothed with humility, for vanity, forwardness, insensibility, disorderly affection, backwardness to duty, proneness to evil are in all of our hearts.

Let them never forget Your patience, wisdom, power, faithfulness, care, and never cease to respond to Your invitations, especially those given this weekend.

Amen.                                                 
                                                          Adapted from p. 222, The Valley of Vision